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Whose Game Is It Anyway?

Football, Life, Love & Loss

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Whose Game Is It Anyway?

By: Michael Calvin
Narrated by: Michael Calvin
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Football has never seemed so distant from its fans. Many have been alienated by the greed and shameless self-interest of the Premier League, and no one can predict how the global game will look post-pandemic. In Whose Game Is It Anyway?, Sunday Times best-selling author Michael Calvin searches for a reason to believe. Written at the height of the Covid-19 crisis, the book is a thought-provoking, deeply personal account of the role sport and particularly football plays in everyday life.

Part memoir, part manifesto, it takes the listener on a tour of the world's greatest sporting occasions and into its outposts in sub-Saharan Africa, the Amazon Basin and the Southern Ocean. Drawn from Calvin's experience as an award-winning sportswriter, covering every major sports event over 40 years in more than 80 countries, it offers first-hand insight into such icons as Muhammad Ali, Maradona and Sir Bobby Charlton. With settings ranging from a jungle clearing to a township in apartheid South Africa, this is sport as you've never seen it before. Football (Soccer) Sports Sports History Africa
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This memoir about growing up as a football fan who becomes a sports journalist has some interesting anecdotes and some ideas worthy of discussion but it all lacks focus. The chapters meander at times and they don’t have a strong connection to each other as they lurch from one story to the next.

Decent read but unfocused

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Look maybe it's on me for not researching it enough so I guess the old saying never judge a book by its cover also applies for Audio books, I am a disillusioned football fan who's growing anxiety that the game I love is being stolen and destroyed by the rich and commercially motivated, I read the title and was a joyed thinking a journalist was about to put my worries to paper and explain the current trajectory of the sport I love and highlight the issues and growing evil it is facing in a capitalistic environment where slowly the cost of supporting a beloved football team is becoming impossible for the lower class that created it. I have given extra stars because in reality it is my failure for not researching, all in all I was bored by what is a remarkable life from a far more accomplished man then I could ever hope to be, but unfortunately it didn't interest me.

Journalist's Biography, Not a football book.

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