Injury Time, 9780008697419
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Football mirrors Britain’s ills: Brexit, Covid, polycrisis, and beyond.
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Injury Time

football in a state of emergency

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    24 November 2025

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Summary

Injury Time: Football, Society, and the State of a Nation

Football, history and the state of the nation – and why it matters

In 2014, David Goldblatt published The Game of Our Lives, an exhaustive and critically-acclaimed ‘state of the nation’ account of the UK told through the prism of football. A William Hill Award-winner, the book was described by historian David Kynaston as ‘enlightening, enriching and exceptional’, and Goldblatt was consequentl…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780008697419
ISBN-10:0008697418
Author:David Goldblatt
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Mudlark
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:24 November 2025
Weight:270g
Dimensions:234mm x 153mm x 23mm
About The Author

David Goldblatt

David Goldblatt is a writer, journalist and academic. He has written four previous major books on football, including The Ball is Round (‘A magnificent work …Takes football history to a new level’ – John Foot, Guardian) and The Game of Our Lives, which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2015. His journalism has won major national journalism prizes, including Radio Programme of the Year and Sports Story of the Year (twice).

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