{"product_id":"game-of-our-lives","title":"Game of our Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Game of Our Lives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a masterly portrait of soccer and contemporary Britain. Soccer in the United Kingdom has evolved from a jaded, working-class tradition to a sport at the heart of popular culture, from an economic mess to a booming entertainment industry that has conquered the world. The changes in the game, David Goldblatt shows, uncannily mirror the evolution of British society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the 1980s, soccer was described as a slum game played by slum people in slum stadiums. Such was the transformation over the following twenty-five years that novelists, politicians, poets, and bankers were all declaring their footballing loyalties. At one point, the Palace let it be known that the queen — like her mother, Prince Harry, the chief rabbi, and the archbishop of Canterbury — was an Arsenal fan. Soccer permeated the national life like little else, an atavistic survivor decked out in New Britain flash, a social democratic game in a cutthroat, profit-driven world. Written by David Goldblatt. Paperback; 368 pages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#21116007\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Congress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53750634053995,"sku":"mfk1787251456024","price":6.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0983\/1268\/3883\/files\/game-of-our-lives_1.jpg?v=1787251464","url":"https:\/\/pickvirello.com\/products\/game-of-our-lives","provider":"Pickvirello","version":"1.0","type":"link"}