Winner of the 2015 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award The
Game of Our Lives is a masterly portrait of soccer and contemporary
Britain. Soccer in the United Kingdom has evolved from a jaded,
working-class tradition to a sport at the heart of popular culture,
from an economic mess to a booming entertainment industry that has
conquered the world. The changes in the game, David Goldblatt
shows, uncannily mirror the evolution of British society. In the
1980s, soccer was described as a slum game played by slum people in
slum stadiums. Such was the transformation over the following
twenty-five years that novelists, politicians, poets, and bankers
were all declaring their footballing loyalties. At one point, the
Palace let it be known that the queen--like her mother, Prince
Harry, the chief rabbi, and the archbishop of Canterbury--was an
Arsenal fan. Soccer permeated the national life like little else,
an atavistic survivor decked out in New Britain flash, a social
democratic game in a cutthroat, profit-driven world. From the
goals, to the players, to the managers, to the money, Goldblatt
describes how the English Premier League (EPL) was forged in
Margaret Thatcher's Britain by an alliance of the big
clubs--Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea, Tottenham
Hotspur--the Football Association, and Rupert Murdoch's Sky TV.
Goldblatt argues that no social phenomenon traces the momentous
economic, social, and political changes of post-Thatcherite Britain
in a more illuminating manner than soccer, and The Game of Our
Lives provides the definitive social history of the EPL--the most
popular soccer league in the world.
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