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Author: David Goldblatt
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
Imprint: Nation Books
Edition: First Trade Paper Edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.90cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.435kg
ISBN: 9781568585161
ISBN 10: 1568585160
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 24 November 2015
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General/trade
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"Winner of the 2015 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award ""This is a serious, insightful yet compellingly readable book on a subject that affects the lives of everyone in the country, be they football fans or not."" --John Gaustad, chairman of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year ""Readers curious about why people around the world care so deeply about teams made up of mercenary, millionaire strangers and owned by billionaire businessmen will find some answers in Goldblatt's analysis."" --Bill Littlefield, The Boston Globe ""[Goldblatt] writes about soccer with the expansive eye of a social and cultural critic...[He] has written not just the best soccer book in many years but an exemplary account of the changing character of British society in the post-Thatcher era."" --David Runciman, The Wall Street Journal ""[D]eeply researched and worth the read for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of both English football, and English society in general."" --Men In Blazers, newsletter recommendation"
Readers curious about why people around the world care so deeply about teams made up of mercenary, millionaire strangers and owned by billionaire businessmen will find some answers in Goldblatt's analysis. --Bill Littlefield, The Boston Globe [Goldblatt] writes about soccer with the expansive eye of a social and cultural critic...[He] has written not just the best soccer book in many years but an exemplary account of the changing character of British society in the post-Thatcher era. --David Runciman, The Wall Street Journal [D]eeply researched and worth the read for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of both English football, and English society in general. --Men In Blazers, newsletter recommendation David Goldblatt's The Game of Our Lives offers an enlightening, enriching experience...it is based on a formidable range of sources, acute personal observation and a pleasingly pithy, sardonic turn of phrase. Not all football writers know their stuff, let alone the socio-economic context, but Goldblatt truly does...altogether, this is an exceptional book --David Kynaston, The Guardian It is difficult to describe in words what an outstanding storyteller and incomparable researcher David Goldblatt is. --Kartik Krishnaiyer, World Soccer Talk Brilliantly incisive...Goldblatt is not merely the best football historian writing today, he is possibly the best there has ever been...Goldblatt's book could hardly be more impressive. --Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times Culture [P]rodigious research and a fluent writing style...this is a fine book which should have an appeal much beyond the game. --Mihir Bose, The Independent [A]n encyclopaedic portrait of English football stripped of all the non-stop hype. The beautiful game is, after all, a dirty business. --Financial Times [A]n intensely readable socioeconomic study of English football in the age of globalisation. --New Statesman
Author Information
David Goldblatt was born in London in 1965 and lives in Bristol. He shares his affections between Tottenham Hotspur and Bristol Rovers. He is the author of The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football and Futebol Nation: The Story of Brazil Through Soccer. Since then he has made sport documentaries for BBC Radio, reviewed sports books for the TLS and the Guardian, taught the sociology of sport at Bristol University, the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester and Pitzer College, Los Angeles.
