The Game of Our Lives
Author: Goldblatt, David
ISBN: 9780241955260
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 400
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 25mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
The story of our national obsession - from Maggie to Mourinho
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.
ISBN: 9780241955260
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 400
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 25mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
The story of our national obsession - from Maggie to Mourinho
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.
