WINNER of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2015 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 now calamitous bust.
A must-read for the thinking football fan, The Game of Our Lives
will appeal to readers of Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby and Inverting
the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson. It will also be relished by readers
of British social history such as Austerity Britain by David
Kynaston. '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' Sunday
Times
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