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Gloucester Road Books welcomes one of the world’s most acclaimed experts on football, David Goldblatt, to discuss his essential new book, Injury Time: Football in a State of Emergency.
Injury Time is a sharp and thought-provoking look at contemporary British society through the lens of football; a society shaken by years of economic, political and social turmoil.
Set against the backdrop of Brexit, Covid, the climate crisis, economic decline and extreme political convulsions, Goldblatt argues that football provides an unmatched vantage point for understanding the state of the nation. From grassroots clubs battling for survival to the rise and fall of Russian oligarchs, the game’s tragedies and triumphs reflect the larger shifts shaping Britain.
This promises to be an indispensable, eye-opening evening.
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‘David Goldblatt is possibly the best football historian there has ever been’. Dominic Sandbrook
‘David Goldblatt is the greatest British sportswriter of the 21st century … Injury Time is an absolute classic.’ James Montague, author of The Billionaires Club and Engulfed
‘Stunningly researched, calmly presented and cumulatively shocking, David Goldblatt’s Injury Time is a work of searching and uncomfortable truths about the world of British football in the age of Brexit. We all knew that the age of relative innocence had long gone; but this extraordinarily knowledgeable, broad-based survey reveals as never before the challenges facing any serious attempt to restore the soul to our game.’ – David Kynaston, author of A Northern Wind
‘David Goldblatt sets to tell the story of modern Britain through football – and, remarkably he succeeds. English football culture would be lost without him. He guides us through the madness.’ – Simon Kuper, bestselling author of Chums
'Nobody knows more about football than Goldblatt' – Literary Review
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David Goldblatt is an award-winning writer, journalist and academic. His books include The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football and The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. He has written for numerous publications including The Guardian, The Observer, The Times Literary Supplement, The Financial Times, the New Statesman, New Left Review and Prospect. He taught sociology of sport at Bristol University and Pitzer College, Los Angeles.
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
Injury Time is a sharp and thought-provoking look at contemporary British society through the lens of football; a society shaken by years of economic, political and social turmoil.
Set against the backdrop of Brexit, Covid, the climate crisis, economic decline and extreme political convulsions, Goldblatt argues that football provides an unmatched vantage point for understanding the state of the nation. From grassroots clubs battling for survival to the rise and fall of Russian oligarchs, the game’s tragedies and triumphs reflect the larger shifts shaping Britain.
This promises to be an indispensable, eye-opening evening.
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‘David Goldblatt is possibly the best football historian there has ever been’. Dominic Sandbrook
‘David Goldblatt is the greatest British sportswriter of the 21st century … Injury Time is an absolute classic.’ James Montague, author of The Billionaires Club and Engulfed
‘Stunningly researched, calmly presented and cumulatively shocking, David Goldblatt’s Injury Time is a work of searching and uncomfortable truths about the world of British football in the age of Brexit. We all knew that the age of relative innocence had long gone; but this extraordinarily knowledgeable, broad-based survey reveals as never before the challenges facing any serious attempt to restore the soul to our game.’ – David Kynaston, author of A Northern Wind
‘David Goldblatt sets to tell the story of modern Britain through football – and, remarkably he succeeds. English football culture would be lost without him. He guides us through the madness.’ – Simon Kuper, bestselling author of Chums
'Nobody knows more about football than Goldblatt' – Literary Review
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David Goldblatt is an award-winning writer, journalist and academic. His books include The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football and The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. He has written for numerous publications including The Guardian, The Observer, The Times Literary Supplement, The Financial Times, the New Statesman, New Left Review and Prospect. He taught sociology of sport at Bristol University and Pitzer College, Los Angeles.
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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