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| A thoroughly researched, well-crafted dissection of the modern game
Independent
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Once, football proudly claimed to stand for passion, community, honour, even beauty. Today, football is about money. Its richest club, Manchester United, earned £175 million last year; yet since 1992 thirty-six of the Football League's seventy-two clubs have been insolvent. The game is in danger of losing its lifeblood - and its soul.
David Conn, the game's most respected investigative journalist, sets out on a journey through the heart of our national game, exploring how the sport has failed - and who is to blame. Travelling to football's every outpost, Conn interviews players, managers, chairmen and fans, building up a picture of a game mired in crisis. At its heart, football is a game deeply loved by millions. This is a book for those who keep the faith, who believe that the sport itself, stripped of the greed and self-interest blighting its organisation, still has values, and can still be beautiful.
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| An important book
The Times
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| An intelligent and passionate work about the business of football from Highbury to Glossop that is as skilfully written and structured as any thriller; a worthy book without a hint of worthiness about it
When Saturday Comes
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| For a fascinating insight into the causes, and the creators, of the game's ills this is a superbly told tale
Peter Corrigan Independent
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| Hard-hitting- but the added value of The Beautiful Game lies rather in the effort to understand what is happening to the minnows, not the sharks. The stories he tells are scandalous, touching, and encouraging, at the same time
The Times
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| This is a must-read for all who love football
Delia Smith
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| This is a quite magnificent book- With a splendid eye for important detail and a determination to ask difficult questions, Conn reminds us of what is important- Conn's greatest feat in a book that is well researched and written with searing honesty is to show the game's magnificent resilience
David Wash The Sunday Times
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Yellow Jersey • Soccer (Association football) • Previous
ISBN: 0224064363
Publication date: 04/08/2005 • 432 pages • B format • EAN: 9780224064361 |
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