Comments on: Books | A majestic history built around games (w/ podcast)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:00:42 +0000

Nice review, but you don't say Fährer and Freitritt in German. It's Spielführer and Freistoß.

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» The Ball is Round. — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:21:43 +0000

[...] excellent review of the book as well as accompanying interview with Mr Goldblatt over at The Global Game and figured it’d be of interest to some of you lot. In other footie news…there’s [...]

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Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:24:25 +0000

[...] football traditions. David Goldblatt in The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football (see Jan 5) writes of the city’s “peculiar social and geographical ecology” that allowed [...]

By: Johnny Centreback

Johnny Centreback — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:13:35 +0000

Wonderful review. I imagine that the book is just as eloquent and erudite. Having said that though and agreeing with you about the power of the round ball, I still ask why? Why this power? For someone who has tried to leave this game many a time—not unlike the author who had his fill—I can’t explain. To borrow a few words from the great English football writer James Lawton the power of the game remains “an unrelenting mystery.” …

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Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:09:24 +0000

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By: James McNally

James McNally — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:32:21 +0000

A masterful review, John. My wife bought me the UK paperback edition a few months ago, but so far it has sat heavily and intimidatingly on my shelf. You’ve accelerated my desire to pick it up now. Bravo!