ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to address some of the implications of Stuart Hall’s remark, in the late 1980s, concerning the politics of Black Britons’ claims to nationhood, by tracing the problematic and complex positioning of Black athletes within contemporary British society. If we want to talk seriously about aspects of national identity and the place of Black Britons, then we cannot do so without some understanding of the importance of sport, for top-performance competitive male sports, in particular, continue to hold a central symbolic place within the popular-nationalist consciousness.
