Sports book of the year brings ray of sunshine to the William Hill prize

David Goldblatt’s The Game of Our Lives has broken with the awards’ downbeat tradition with a football survey that is not all doom and gloom

The £27,000 William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize was awarded on Thursday to David Goldblatt for The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football, a book praised by the Guardian’s reviewer, the historian David Kynaston, as “an enlightening, enriching ... survey of the sport in post‑Thatcher Britain, aka the age of globalisation ... an exceptional book that falls just short of greatness”.

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