Download or read book Amateurism in British Sport written by Dilwyn Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideal of the amateur competitor, playing the game for love and, unlike the professional, totally untainted by commerce, has become embedded in many accounts of the development of modern sport. It has proved influential not least because it has underpinned a pervasive impression of professionalism - and all that came with it - as a betrayal of i