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The Only Game: Football in Our Times 1/e
James Walvin
Published January 2002 by Longman
Copyright 2001, 304 pp., Cloth
ISBN: 0582505771
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$19.95
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Features

  • Packed full of anecdotes and stories.
  • The fans want to read about it as well as watch it.
  • Emphasis on the transformation of the 1990s - within everyone's memory.
  • Topical - up-to-the-minute coverage of the Wembly fiasco.
  • Features the celebrity players, managers and clubs past and present.
  • Explores the stadiums - from Heisel to Hillsborough to Bradford.
  • Shows how the marriage between football and BskyB opened the floodgates to money and fame.
  • Investigates the transfers - Europe, law and money
  • Written by the author who coined the phrase "the people's game".
Author Bio

James Walvin is the author of The People's Game which has been in print for almost 30 years.
Table of Contents



Acknowledgements.


 1. This island now.


 2. Gentlemen and players: pre-1914.


 3. Coming of Age: 1914-1939.


 4. A wider world: the global game.


 5. War and peace: 1939-1958.


 6. The turning point: 1958.


 7. Into the 1960s.


 8. Racism and hooligans: the English disease.


 9. Disasters: tragedy and reform.


 10. In the front room: the media revolution.


 11. A land of plenty: money and markets.


 12. The grass roots: lesser mortals.


 13. Celebrities in shorts: football in the public eye.


 14. Nationalism and the national game.


 15. Politics and false profits.


Guide to further reading.


Index.


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