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The Ugly Game: How Football Lost its Magic and What it Could Learn from the NFL
Martin Calladine
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Description for The Ugly Game: How Football Lost its Magic and What it Could Learn from the NFL
Paperback. Somewhere along the way football took a wrong turn, losing touch with fans. In a passionate, funny book of essays, The Ugly Game sets out to put football right by comparing it, often unfavourably, with American football, a sport, perhaps surprisingly, that's showing how money need not destroy fairness and competition. Num Pages: 192 pages, assorted mono and colour pictures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WSJA; WSJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 264.
At its best, football is a glorious, uplifting, unifying sport. But it hasn't been at its best for some time. Disillusioned by corruption scandals, billionaire club owners and an ever-smaller group of title challengers, Martin Calladine drifted away from the game that had defined 25 years of his life. He found solace in an unexpected place: American football. Despite the glitz and the endless ad breaks, the NFL has a curiously Corinthian purity: preventing teams buying success by sharing TV money equally, having a strict salary cap and, with the draft, letting the worst teams get the pick of the ... Read more
At its best, football is a glorious, uplifting, unifying sport. But it hasn't been at its best for some time. Disillusioned by corruption scandals, billionaire club owners and an ever-smaller group of title challengers, Martin Calladine drifted away from the game that had defined 25 years of his life. He found solace in an unexpected place: American football. Despite the glitz and the endless ad breaks, the NFL has a curiously Corinthian purity: preventing teams buying success by sharing TV money equally, having a strict salary cap and, with the draft, letting the worst teams get the pick of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pitch Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
263g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Hove, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785310072
SKU
V9781785310072
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About Martin Calladine
Martin Calladine is a freelance writer, who's spent 15 years in advertising and marketing agencies, several years as a copywriting teacher and a short period, in his late 20s, as an agented but unpublished writer of terrible novels. He once received several nominations for 'most thoughtful poster of the year' on a football forum.
Reviews for The Ugly Game: How Football Lost its Magic and What it Could Learn from the NFL
"bitingly funny yet heartfelt critique"
Booklist Online 11/12/2015
Booklist Online 11/12/2015