A powerful, passionate exploration of a game in turmoil Football
has never been richer, more hyped, more central to Britain's
culture than today. Yet never has it been in greater turmoil. Once,
football was about passion, community, beauty. The game celebrated
and honoured its past, striving to uphold the values that had made
it great. Today, football is about money. Its richest club,
Manchester United, earned pound]146 million last year; yet since
1992-34 of the Football League's 72 clubs have been insolvent. The
game is in danger of losing its lifeblood - and its soul. David
Conn, the game's premier investigative journalist, sets out on a
journey through the heart of English football, exploring how our
national sport has failed - and who is to blame. Travelling from
Highbury's art deco stands to provincial non-league outposts, Conn
interviews players, managers, agents, chairmen and fans, building
up a picture of a game mired in crisis, from the casino that is
today's Premiership all the way down to the lowest leagues. For
every all-conquering Manchester United or 'Chelski', there are ten
clubs in desperate straits, ready to implode. Along the way, there
are new revelations on the Hillsborough tragedy of 1989, where 96
people died because of failures which football has never fully
addressed; on the decline and fall of Sheffield Wednesday; and on
the formation of the Premier League itself, born from an influx of
TV money, bitterly divisive and bitterly regretted. Yet, at its
heart, football is a game deeply loved by millions. This is a book
for those who keep the faith, who believe that the sport itself,
stripped of the greed and self-interest blighting its organisation,
still has values, and can still be beautiful.
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