The Age of Football

<p><b>'Magnificent . . . Goldblatt is the doyen of sports historians and brings to this account his forensic and telling eye for detail' - </b><i><b>Mail on Sunday</b></i><br><br><b>A <i>Sunday Times</i> Best Sports Book of the Year</b><b><br><br>The epic exploration of society, politics, and economics in the twenty-first century through the prism of football, by the critically acclaimed author of <i>The Ball is Round</i>.</b><br><br>In the twenty-first century football is first. First among sports themselves, but it now commands the allegiance, interest and engagement of more people in more places than any other phenomenon. In the three most populous nations on the earth – China, India and the United States where just twenty years ago football existed on the periphery of society – it has now arrived for good. Nations, peoples and neighbourho