The Game of Our Lives: The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain
Autor David Goldblatten Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 noi 2015
Winner
of
the
2015
William
Hill
Sports
Book
of
the
Year
Award
The Game of Our Livesis 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, andThe Game of Our Livesprovides the definitive social history of the EPL—the most popular soccer league in the world.
The Game of Our Livesis 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, andThe Game of Our Livesprovides the definitive social history of the EPL—the most popular soccer league in the world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781568585161
ISBN-10: 1568585160
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: none
Dimensiuni: 149 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: PublicAffairs
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ISBN-10: 1568585160
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: none
Dimensiuni: 149 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: PublicAffairs
Colecția Bold Type Books
Notă biografică
David
Goldblattwas
born
in
London
in
1965
and
lives
in
Bristol.
He
shares
his
affections
between
Tottenham
Hotspur
and
Bristol
Rovers.
He
is
the
author
ofThe
Ball
is
Round:
A
Global
History
of
FootballandFutebol
Nation:
The
Story
of
Brazil
Through
Soccer.
Since
then
he
has
made
sport
documentaries
for
BBC
Radio,
reviewed
sports
books
for
theTLSand
theGuardian,
taught
the
sociology
of
sport
at
Bristol
University,
the
International
Centre
for
Sports
History
and
Culture,
De
Montfort
University,
Leicester
and
Pitzer
College,
Los
Angeles.
Recenzii
Winner
of
the
2015
William
Hill
Sports
Book
of
the
Year
Award
“This is a serious, insightful yet compellingly readable book on a subject that affects the lives of everyone in the country, be they football fans or not.”—John Gaustad, chairman of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year
“Readers curious about why people around the world care so deeply about teams made up of mercenary, millionaire strangers and owned by billionaire businessmen will find some answers in Goldblatt's analysis.”—Bill Littlefield,The Boston Globe
"[Goldblatt] writes about soccer with the expansive eye of a social and cultural critic....[He] has written 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.”—David Runciman,The Wall Street Journal
“[D]eeply researched and worth the read for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of both English football, and English society in general.”—Men In Blazers, newsletter recommendation
“This is a serious, insightful yet compellingly readable book on a subject that affects the lives of everyone in the country, be they football fans or not.”—John Gaustad, chairman of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year
“Readers curious about why people around the world care so deeply about teams made up of mercenary, millionaire strangers and owned by billionaire businessmen will find some answers in Goldblatt's analysis.”—Bill Littlefield,The Boston Globe
"[Goldblatt] writes about soccer with the expansive eye of a social and cultural critic....[He] has written 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.”—David Runciman,The Wall Street Journal
“[D]eeply researched and worth the read for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of both English football, and English society in general.”—Men In Blazers, newsletter recommendation