| In the book the award-winning, Bristol-based author of The Game of Our Lives, The Meaning and Making of English Football and The Games argues that football provides a unique vantage point for understanding the state of the nation.
From grassroots clubs battling for survival to the rise and fall of Russian oligarchs; Marcus Rashford’s anti-hunger campaign and the uproar surrounding Gary Lineker’s tweets, Injury Time dives in to football’s central role in public debate and consciousness. The game, Goldblatt contends, is the ultimate societal bellwether, particularly in an age of multiple crises – Brexit, Covid, climate catastrophes, economic and political upheaval.
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It promises to be an indispensable, eye-opening evening but don’t just take our word for it; here are some reviews for Injury Time and David’s other acclaimed work:
‘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
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