Description - In the Studmarks of the "Football Man": Soccer 40 Years on by Ian Dovostan
Back when Hopcraft wrote his seminal work, "The Football Man", the English game was at its zenith. For the nostalgic, this was a time when pitches were muddy and the game was still true to its soul. But how have things changed some forty years on? There are many who believe the game is now a corrupt, cynical, money-saturated, marketing machine which ignores the true fan and which has lost its soul. But is football really doomed?Taking the themes of "The Football Man", and through conducting dozens of new interviews, Dovostan has explored the key aspects of football in 21st century with chapters on the manager, the director, the referee, the player, the fan, but also - forty years on - the agent.In the "Studmarks of the Football Man" is written not just from the point of view of a journalist but of a football fan. What emerges is a portrait rather than polemic, as the author steeps himself in football, going to games at all levels and meeting football's past, present and future.
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