| Racism, football fans, and online message boards: How social media has added a new dimension to racist discourse in English football J Cleland Journal of Sport and Social Issues 38 (5), 415-431, 2014 | 287 | 2014 |
| Fans, homophobia and masculinities in association football: Evidence of a more inclusive environment E Cashmore, J Cleland The British journal of sociology 63 (2), 370-387, 2012 | 260 | 2012 |
| From passive to active: The changing relationship between supporters and football clubs JA Cleland Soccer & Society 11 (5), 537-552, 2010 | 145 | 2010 |
| Collective action and football fandom: A relational sociological approach J Cleland, M Doidge, P Millward, P Widdop Springer, 2018 | 144 | 2018 |
| Discussing homosexuality on association football fan message boards: A changing cultural context J Cleland International Review for the Sociology of Sport 50 (2), 125-140, 2015 | 134 | 2015 |
| Glasswing butterflies: Gay professional football players and their culture E Cashmore, J Cleland Journal of Sport and Social Issues 35 (4), 420-436, 2011 | 128 | 2011 |
| Football fans’ views of racism in British football J Cleland, E Cashmore International Review for the Sociology of Sport 51 (1), 27-43, 2016 | 124 | 2016 |
| Football's dark side: corruption, homophobia, violence and racism in the beautiful game E Cashmore, J Cleland Springer, 2014 | 123 | 2014 |
| Football fans’ views of violence in British football: Evidence of a sanitized and gentrified culture J Cleland, E Cashmore Journal of sport and social issues 40 (2), 124-142, 2016 | 117 | 2016 |
| Fans, racism and British football in the twenty-first century: The existence of a ‘colour-blind’ideology J Cleland, E Cashmore Journal of ethnic and migration studies 40 (4), 638-654, 2014 | 114 | 2014 |
| A sociology of football in a global context J Cleland Routledge, 2015 | 109 | 2015 |
| Why aren't there more black football managers? E Cashmore, J Cleland Ethnic and Racial Studies 34 (9), 1594-1607, 2011 | 82 | 2011 |
| Sexuality, masculinity and homophobia in association football: An empirical overview of a changing cultural context J Cleland International Review for the Sociology of Sport 53 (4), 411-423, 2018 | 81 | 2018 |
| The internet as a site of decreasing cultural homophobia in association football: An online response by fans to the coming out of Thomas Hitzlsperger J Cleland, R Magrath, E Kian Men and Masculinities 21 (1), 91-111, 2018 | 80 | 2018 |
| Association football and the representation of homosexuality by the print media: A case study of Anton Hysén J Cleland Journal of homosexuality 61 (9), 1269-1287, 2014 | 80 | 2014 |
| Bisexual erasure in the British print media: Representation of Tom Daley's coming out R Magrath, J Cleland, E Anderson Journal of Bisexuality 17 (3), 300-317, 2017 | 64 | 2017 |
| The media and football supporters: A changing relationship J Cleland Media, Culture & Society 33 (2), 299-315, 2011 | 64 | 2011 |
| Respect? An investigation into the experience of referees in association football J Cleland, J O’Gorman, T Webb International Review for the Sociology of Sport 53 (8), 960-974, 2018 | 62 | 2018 |
| ‘Black and whiters’: the relative powerlessness of ‘active’supporter organization mobility at English Premier League football clubs J Cleland, K Dixon Soccer & Society 16 (4), 540-554, 2015 | 60 | 2015 |
| Online research methods in sport studies J Cleland, K Dixon, D Kilvington Routledge, 2019 | 54 | 2019 |
