The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football
Author(s): David Goldblatt
In the last two decades football in Britain has made the transition from a peripheral dying sport to the very centre of our popular culture, from an economic basket-case to a booming entertainment industry. What does it mean when football becomes so central to our private and political lives? Has it enriched us or impoverished us? In this sparkling book David Goldblatt argues that no social phenomenon tracks the momentous economic, social and political changes of the post-Thatcherite era in a more illuminating manner than football, and no cultural practice sheds more light on the aspirations and attitudes of our long boom and subsequent bust.
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Offers an enlightening, enriching experience. It is based on a formidable range of sources, personal observation and a pleasingly sardonic turn of phrase. Not all football writers know their stuff, let alone the socio-economic context, but Goldblatt does. Altogether this is an exceptional book -- David Kynaston Guardian 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 Sunday Times 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 Wall Street Journal
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.277
- : 28 February 2015
- : 198mm X 129mm X 24mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 May 2015
- : books
Special Fields
- : 400
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : David Goldblatt
