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The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football

David Goldblatt

3.8/5 ( ratings)

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 subsequent bust.

Pages: 374

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin

Release: March 05, 2015

ISBN: 0241955262

ISBN 13: 9780241955260

The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football

David Goldblatt

3.8/5 ( ratings)

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 subsequent bust.

Pages: 374

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin

Release: March 05, 2015

ISBN: 0241955262

ISBN 13: 9780241955260

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