num_pages: 331
description: Football has never seemed so distant from its fans. Many have been alienated by the greed and shameless self-interest of the Premier League and no one can predict how the global game will look post-pandemic. In Whose Game Is It Anyway? Sunday Times best-selling author Michael Calvin searches for a reason to believe. Written at the height of the Covid-19 crisis the book is a thought-provoking deeply personal account of the role sport  and particularly football  plays in everyday life. Part memoir part manifesto it takes the reader on a tour of the world's greatest sporting occasions and into its outposts in sub-Saharan Africa the Amazon Basin and the Southern Ocean. Drawn from Calvin's experience as an award-winning sportswriter covering every major sports event over 40 years in more than 80 countries it offers first-hand insight into such icons as Muhammad Ali Maradona and Sir Bobby Charlton. With settings ranging from a jungle clearing to a township in apartheid South Africa this is sport as you've never seen it before.
language: English
title: Whose Game Is It Anyway?: Football, Life, Love & Loss
publisher: None