| The work of professional football M Roderick Taylor & Francis, 2006 | 456 | 2006 |
| Playing hurt: Managing injuries in English professional football M Roderick, I Waddington, G Parker International review for the sociology of sport 35 (2), 165-180, 2000 | 405 | 2000 |
| A very precarious profession: Uncertainty in the working lives of professional footballers M Roderick Work, employment and society 20 (2), 245-265, 2006 | 183 | 2006 |
| Drug use in English professional football I Waddington, D Malcolm, M Roderick, R Naik British journal of sports medicine 39 (4), e18-e18, 2005 | 182 | 2005 |
| Adding insult to injury: Workplace injury in English professional football M Roderick Sociology of health & illness 28 (1), 76-97, 2006 | 146 | 2006 |
| Management of medical confidentiality in English professional football clubs: some ethical problems and issues I Waddington, M Roderick British Journal of Sports Medicine 36 (2), 118-123, 2002 | 122 | 2002 |
| Disciplinary power, the oligopticon and rhizomatic surveillance in elite sports academies A Manley, C Palmer, M Roderick Surveillance and Society 10 (3-4), 303-319, 2012 | 108 | 2012 |
| Methods of appointment and qualifications of club doctors and physiotherapists in English professional football: some problems and issues I Waddington, M Roderick, R Naik British journal of sports medicine 35 (1), 48-53, 2001 | 103 | 2001 |
| An unpaid labor of love: Professional footballers, family life, and the problem of job relocation MJ Roderick Journal of Sport and Social Issues 36 (3), 317-338, 2012 | 91 | 2012 |
| From identification to dis-identification: Case studies of job loss in professional football M Roderick Qualitative research in sport, exercise and health 6 (2), 143-160, 2014 | 89 | 2014 |
| The sociology of risk, pain, and injury: A comment on the work of Howard L. Nixon II M Roderick Sociology of Sport Journal 15 (1), 64-79, 1998 | 86 | 1998 |
| Disciplinary mechanisms and the discourse of identity: The creation of ‘silence’in an elite sports academy A Manley, M Roderick, A Parker Culture and Organization 22 (3), 221-244, 2016 | 82 | 2016 |
| The sociology of sports work, emotions and mental health: Scoping the field and future directions M Roderick, A Smith, P Potrac Sociology of sport journal 34 (2), 99-107, 2017 | 77 | 2017 |
| Domestic moves: An exploration of intra-national labour mobility in the working lives of professional footballers M Roderick International review for the sociology of sport 48 (4), 387-404, 2013 | 64 | 2013 |
| Recovery from addiction and the potential role of sport: Using a life-course theory to study change S Landale, M Roderick International Review for the Sociology of Sport 49 (3-4), 468-484, 2014 | 61 | 2014 |
| ‘The whole week comes down to the team sheet’: a footballer’s view of insecure work M Roderick, J Schumacker Work, employment and society 31 (1), 166-174, 2017 | 57 | 2017 |
| The presentation of possible selves in everyday life: The management of identity among transitioning professional athletes C Hickey, M Roderick Sociology of Sport Journal 34 (3), 270-280, 2017 | 56 | 2017 |
| The sociology of pain and injury in sport: Main perspectives and problems M Roderick Pain and injury in sport, 17-30, 2006 | 50 | 2006 |
| Introducing sport in films E Poulton, M Roderick Sport in Society 11 (2-3), 107-116, 2008 | 46 | 2008 |
| Managing injuries in professional football: a study of the roles of the club doctor and physiotherapist I Waddington, M Roderick, G Parker Center for Research into Sport and Society, University of Leicester, 1999 | 45 | 1999 |
