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Description: The Game of Our Lives : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780241955260 : : 05 Mar 2015 : What does it mean when football becomes so central to our private and political lives? Has it enriched us or impoverished us? In this book, the author 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 more. The Book Depository The Game of Our Lives by David Goldblatt - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk

 

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Review: The author clearly knows his stuff and has researched the content superbly. However the stories of genuine interest appear every so often rather than consistently throughout the book. For example, he talks us through the ownership history of roughly 40 English clubs but only a couple of those stories will stick in the memory for me - a bit of editing would've been useful. It reads too much like a university dissertation to be able to give it any more than three stars.

 

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