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The Ugly Game

How Football Lost its Magic and What it Could Learn from the NFL

By (author) Martin Calladine
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd, Hove, United Kingdom
Published: 12th Feb 2015
Dimensions: w 217mm h 142mm d 15mm
Weight: 258g
ISBN-10: 1785310070
ISBN-13: 9781785310072
Barcode No: 9781785310072
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Synopsis
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 best new players. The Ugly Game is a funny, angry book of essays for football fans setting out where the game has gone wrong and showing that, perhaps surprisingly, the NFL has many of the answers.

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"bitingly funny yet heartfelt critique"--Booklist Online 11/12/2015