The spread of sportswashing within top-flight football: a discussion of its underpinnings, mechanisms and probable consequences
本文讨论了体育洗白在顶级足球中蔓延的动机、对俱乐部和社区的影响，以及其与现代足球本质的契合，预测未来可能加剧且难以抵抗。
Purpose The paper discusses a range of aspects of the spread of sportswashing within top-flight football, identifies the motivations of its proponents, what is on offer to football clubs, their followers and local communities and the ways in which it coheres with the nature of the modern game. Design/methodology/approach A range of disparate literature, both academic and non-academic, is synthesised to provide a broad-ranging introduction to the spread of sportswashing within top-flight football. Findings Sportswashing is likely to increase within top-flight football in future years as a result of its resonance with aspects of the game's evolving nature. Resistance to its continuing spread presently appears improbable. Originality/value As relatively recent development within football, the sportswashing topic has produced a limited literature to which this paper contributes.