The Beautiful Game?: Searching for the Soul of Football

David Conn

ISBN 10: 0224064363 / ISBN 13: 9780224064361

Verlag: Yellow Jersey, 2005

Gebraucht - Sehr gut Leichte Lagerspuren -The most important football book published this year -- a powerful, passionate exploration of a game in turmoil. Soccer has never been richer, more hyped or more central to Britain's culture than today. Yet never has it been in greater turmoil. Once, football was about passion, community and beauty. Today, football is about money. Its richest club, Manchester United, earned 146 million last year; yet since 1992, thirty-four 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 premier investigative journalist, sets out on a journey through the heart of English football, exploring how the national sport has failed -- and who is to blame. From top clubs in the Premiership League, all the way down to the lowest leagues, Conn interviews players, managers, agents, chairmen and fans, building up a picture of a game mired in crisis. For every all-conquering Manchester United or Chelsea, there are ten clubs in desperate straits. There are also new revelations about the Hillsborough tragedy of 1989 where ninety-six people died; on the decline and fall of Sheffield Wednesday; and on the formation of the Premier League itself, born from an influx of TV money, bitterly regretted. Yet, at its heart, soccer is a game deeply loved by millions, and this is a book for those who keep the faith, who believe that the sport itself, stripped of greed and self-interest still has values and can still be beautiful. 448 pp. Englisch. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers INF1001362263

Inhaltsangabe:

Football is at the heart of British culture – yet never has it been in greater turmoil.

Once, football stood for passion, community, honour, even beauty. The game is in danger of losing its lifeblood - and its soul.

In The Beautiful Game? 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. 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.

‘For a fascinating insight into the causes, and the creators, of the game's ills this is a superbly told tale’ Independent

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: David Conn is the author of The Beautiful Game? and multi-award-winning journalist for the Guardian. He has been awarded UK sports news reporter of the year three times, and sports journalist of the year in the British Journalism Awards. David has many years of unique experience carrying out original investigations into football and its modern relationship with money, and has been a key part of the Guardian’s coverage of the Fifa crisis.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Beautiful Game?: Searching for the Soul ...
Verlag: Yellow Jersey
Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Sehr gut