ABSTRACT
Ley’s comments at the end of the last chapter were aimed at a positivist approach using quantification and seeking generalisation. This approach was prominent in geography during the 1970s and became almost synonymous with fields known as location theory and spatial analysis. Basically, this privileged ‘space’ as the prime geographic concept. A geography of sport could be viewed through this conceptual lens as patterns of points (e.g. sports facilities or clubs), movement (migration of players, journeys to spectate), hierarchies (clubs), or surfaces (variations in ‘production’ of players as shown in the last chapter). In this chapter I will deal with sports activities as points, hierarchies and movements.
