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About this book
Football has never seemed so distant from its fans. Many have been alienated by the greed and shameless self-interest of the Premier League, and no one can predict how the global game will look post-pandemic. In Whose Game Is It Anyway?, Sunday Times best-selling author Michael Calvin searches for a reason to believe. Written at the height of the Covid-19 crisis, the book is a thought-provoking, deeply personal account of the role sport – and particularly football – plays in everyday life. Part memoir, part manifesto, it takes the reader on a tour of the world's greatest sporting occasions and into its outposts in sub-Saharan Africa, the Amazon Basin and the Southern Ocean. Drawn from Calvin's experience as an award-winning sportswriter, covering every major sports event over 40 years in more than 80 countries, it offers first-hand insight into such icons as Muhammad Ali, Maradona and Sir Bobby Charlton. With settings ranging from a jungle clearing to a township in apartheid South Africa, this is sport as you've never seen it before.
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Publisher
Pitch Publishing LtdYear
2021eBook ISBN
9781785319259Edition
0Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- 1. Father and Son
- 2. Fantasy Football
- 3. From Playground to Pithead
- 4. The Match
- 5. Stairway to Heaven
- 6. The Man on the Wire
- 7. Nights in Pink Satin
- 8. Playing with the Pros
- 9. Behind the Curtain
- 10. Milestones
- 11. House of Cards
- 12. Sing Your Own Song
- 13. Fragile
- 14. In the Arena
- 15. Lost at Sea
- 16. The Art of the Impossible
- 17. Funeral for a Friend
- 18. Who Cares for the Carers?
- 19. Soul Food
- 20. Rebirth
- 21. The Curse of the Quid
- 22. Everyday Heroes
- 23. Shades of Grey
- 24. Truth to Power
- 25. Whose Game is it Anyway?
- Acknowledgements
- Photos