Simon Martin

"Simon Martin's thesis on football and fascism in Mussolini’s Italy was published in 2004 and won the British Society for Sport’s History’s Lord Aberdare Prize for literary history. In 2006, it was published as Calcio e Fascismo by the prestigious Mondadori publishing house, in Italy. He appeared in the BBC2 documentary, ‘World Cup Stories’. His most recent publication is 'Sport Italia. The Italian love affair with sport' (IB Tauris, 2010). He teaches in the UK and Italy.