A review by gemmak
The Game of Our Lives: The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain by David Goldblatt

3.0

If you're looking to read a book that ties the formation of the Premier League to the rise and fall of Thacherism in Britain, this is the book for you. But be warned -- this is not a sports book. It's sociology through the lens of football, only a history in the sense that it references things that happened in the past in order to make a point. It's a cogent book, but I occasionally found Goldblatt's thinking hard to pin down -- as much as he seems to appreciate the slightly less racist/sexist world of football today, I get the sense that he'd trade all that progress for the pre-Premier League fan culture.