The game of our lives
Subtitle: the meaning and making of English football
By: David Goldblatt
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780241955260
Subjects: Social aspects; Sportsoziologie; Fußball; Soccer; Sport
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: Viking, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-346) and index.