- Published: 27 May 2015
- ISBN: 9780241955260
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400
- RRP: $29.99
The Game of Our Lives
The Meaning and Making of English Football
- Published: 27 May 2015
- ISBN: 9780241955260
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400
- RRP: $29.99
Brilliantly incisive. Goldblatt is not merely the best football historian writing today, he is possibly the best there has ever been. Goldblatt's book could hardly be more impressive
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
Offers an enlightening, enriching experience. It is based on a formidable range of sources, personal observation and a pleasingly sardonic turn of phrase. Not all football writers know their stuff, let alone the socio-economic context, but Goldblatt does. Altogether this is an exceptional book
David Kynaston, Guardian
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, Wall Street Journal
David Goldblatt examines [English football] peerlessly ... A superb history of a sport and of a nation
Evening Standard
Goldblatt is a trusted guide ... Rich with statistics, this is an admirably balanced account of the beautiful game
Daily Mail
Prodigious research and a fluent writing style ... this is a fine book which should have an appeal much beyond the game
Mihir Bose, Independent
An encyclopaedic portrait of English football stripped of all the non-stop hype. The beautiful game is, after all, a dirty business
Financial Times (Life & Arts)
An intensely readable socioeconomic study of English football in the age of globalisation
New Statesman
A book that informs and inspires, a truly great piece of writing
Philosophy Football
The best pub talker of a book for years
Sunday Sport
Goldblatt has a gift for exploring the way the game holds a mirror up to our lives ... His deconstruction of the modern game could hardly be bettered
Observer
[A] bold analysis of Britain's economic and social change refracted through football
The Times
A salient overview of the past quarter-century
Times Literary Supplement