The Game Of Our Lives Av David Goldblatt

<p><b>WINNER of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2015</b><br><br>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?<br><br>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, <i>The Game of Our Lives</i> will appeal to readers of <i>Fever Pitch</i> by Nick Hornby and <i>Inverting the Pyramid</i> by Jonathan Wilson. It will also be relished by readers of British social history such as <i>Austerity Britain</i> by David Kynaston. <br><br><b>''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'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b></p>