The Beautiful Game?
  • Published: 1 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446420423
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448

The Beautiful Game?

Searching for the Soul of Football

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1 Jan 2011
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15 Aug 2005
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A powerful, passionate exploration of a game in turmoil.

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
  • Published: 1 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446420423
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448
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About the author

David Conn

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.

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Praise for The Beautiful Game?

An important book

The Times

An intelligent and passionate work about the business of football from Highbury to Glossop that is as skilfully written and structured as any thriller; a worthy book without a hint of worthiness about it

When Saturday Comes

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

Peter Corrigan, Independent

Hard-hitting- but the added value of The Beautiful Game lies rather in the effort to understand what is happening to the minnows, not the sharks. The stories he tells are scandalous, touching, and encouraging, at the same time

The Times

Should be read by anyone who really cares about football

James Lawton, Independent

This is a must-read for all who love football

Delia Smith

This is a quite magnificent book...with a splendid eye for important detail and a determination to ask difficult questions, Conn reminds us of what is important- Conn's greatest feat in a book that is well researched and written with searing honesty is to show the game's magnificent resilience

David Wash, Sunday Times