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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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"Offbeat, funny, frenzied and very occasionally utterly unfathomable, The Ugly Game is an entertaining, if outlandish read. And it provides some interesting facts. Did you know that in 2012-13 season, Michael Carrick completed more forward passes that campaign than any other player in Europe? Funny old game, indeed." -- Book of the Week, Blackpool Gazette
"You wouldn't think you could teach the people running such a hugely cash-generative operation anything new, but in The Ugly Game, Martin Calladine makes a cogent, often entertaining case for football to look west and discover what it could become, one capable of handling money and fame without compromising open, fair competition." --Sports Book of the Month.com
Author Biography
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and marketing agencies, several years as a copywriting teacher and a short period, in his late 20s, as an agented but unpublished writer of terrible novels.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.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Pitch Publishing
- Publication Date February 2015
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781785310072
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 12.99 GBP
- Pages160
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216x138 mm
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