InThe Game of Our Lives, David Goldblatt - author of the celebrated history of world football,The Ball is Round- examines how a dying working-class game that mirrored the nation's declining fortunes became the richest, most popular form of entertainment in the country.
David Goldblatt is the author of The Ball Is Round- A Global History of Football (Penguin, 2007), the definitive historical account of the world's game, and of Futebol Nation (Penguin, 2014), a highly acclaimed footballing history of Brazil. For a number of years he wrote a sports column in Prospect magazine and has made a number of documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and for the World Service, including ones on football in Jerusalem and the politics of the game in Kenya. He has also taught the sociology of sport at the University of Bristol, at De Montfort University, Leicester, and at Pitzer College, Los Angeles. He lives in Bristol.
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*
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
*Guardian*
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
*Wall Street Journal*
David Goldblatt examines [English football] peerlessly ... A superb
history of a sport and of a nation
*Evening Standard*
Goldblatt is a trusted guide ... Rich with statistics, this is an
admirably balanced account of the beautiful game
*Daily Mail*
Prodigious research and a fluent writing style ... this is a fine
book which should have an appeal much beyond the game
*Independent*
An encyclopaedic portrait of English football stripped of all the
non-stop hype. The beautiful game is, after all, a dirty
business
*Financial Times (Life & Arts)*
An intensely readable socioeconomic study of English football in
the age of globalisation
*New Statesman*
A book that informs and inspires, a truly great piece of
writing
*Philosophy Football*
The best pub talker of a book for years
*Sunday Sport*
Goldblatt has a gift for exploring the way the game holds a mirror
up to our lives ... His deconstruction of the modern game could
hardly be bettered
*Observer*
[A] bold analysis of Britain's economic and social change refracted
through football
*The Times*
A salient overview of the past quarter-century
*Times Literary Supplement*
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