Synopsis
The epic exploration of football in the twenty-first century through the prism of sociology, politics, and economics, by David Goldblatt, the critically acclaimed author of The Ball is Round.
'David Goldblatt is not merely the best football historian writing today, he is possibly the best there has ever been' - Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
In the twenty-first century football is first. First...
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20 August 2020
9781509854271Reviews
David Goldblatt is not merely the best football historian writing today, he is possibly the best there has ever beenThe Sunday Times
Praise for The Games:
The Financial Times
Goldblatt has become arguably the premier anglophone sports historian. Unflinching before millennia worth of material, he tells the Olympic story from the ancient Greeks to today’s festival of sponsors. This book is illuminating, erudite, fair-minded, readable, told at a cracking pace, and puts the Games in their social and political context.
Praise for The Game of Our Lives:
Prof David Runciman, The Wall Street Journal
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.
Praise for Futebol Nation: A Footballing History of Brazil
Simon Kuper, The Financial Times
Goldblatt has a knack for putting football into its socio-economic context, a gift for synthesis, and frightening eloquence.
