Whose Game Is It Anyway?
Football, Life, Love & Loss
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Narrated by:
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Michael Calvin
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By:
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Michael Calvin
About this listen
Football has never seemed so distant from its fans. Many have been alienated by the greed and shameless self-interest of the Premier League, and no one can predict how the global game will look post-pandemic. In Whose Game Is It Anyway?, Sunday Times best-selling author Michael Calvin searches for a reason to believe. Written at the height of the COVID-19 crisis, the book is a thought-provoking, deeply personal account of the role sport and particularly football plays in everyday life.
Part memoir, part manifesto, it takes the listener on a tour of the world's greatest sporting occasions and into its outposts in sub-Saharan Africa, the Amazon Basin and the Southern Ocean. Drawn from Calvin's experience as an award-winning sportswriter, covering every major sports event over 40 years in more than 80 countries, it offers first-hand insight into such icons as Muhammad Ali, Maradona and Sir Bobby Charlton. With settings ranging from a jungle clearing to a township in apartheid South Africa, this is sport as you've never seen it before.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story2 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 15-02-2023
Journalist's Biography, Not a football book.
Look maybe it's on me for not researching it enough so I guess the old saying never judge a book by its cover also applies for Audio books, I am a disillusioned football fan who's growing anxiety that the game I love is being stolen and destroyed by the rich and commercially motivated, I read the title and was a joyed thinking a journalist was about to put my worries to paper and explain the current trajectory of the sport I love and highlight the issues and growing evil it is facing in a capitalistic environment where slowly the cost of supporting a beloved football team is becoming impossible for the lower class that created it. I have given extra stars because in reality it is my failure for not researching, all in all I was bored by what is a remarkable life from a far more accomplished man then I could ever hope to be, but unfortunately it didn't interest me.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Brad Abraham
- 03-10-2022
Decent read but unfocused
This memoir about growing up as a football fan who becomes a sports journalist has some interesting anecdotes and some ideas worthy of discussion but it all lacks focus. The chapters meander at times and they don’t have a strong connection to each other as they lurch from one story to the next.
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