{"product_id":"game-of-our-lives","title":"Game Of Our Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 now calamitous bust. A must-read for the thinking football fan, \u003ci\u003eThe Game of Our Lives\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to readers of \u003ci\u003eFever Pitch\u003c\/i\u003e by Nick Hornby and \u003ci\u003eInverting the Pyramid\u003c\/i\u003e by Jonathan Wilson. It will also be relished by readers of British social history such as \u003ci\u003eAusterity Britain\u003c\/i\u003e by David Kynaston. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''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'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319357219198,"sku":"NW9780241955260","price":11.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241955260.jpg?v=1778727571","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/game-of-our-lives","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}