History of Football, Political Economy of Football
Professional Career
Location
Bristol, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Biography
David Goldblatt was born in London in 1965, and now lives in Bristol, the Bermuda Triangle of football success. In 2015 he won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award for The Game of Our Lives:The Meaning and Making of English Football and the Sports Story of the Year at the Foreign Press Association Media Awards for his article for The Guardian Long Read, The prison where murderers play for Manchester United. His most recent book is The Games: A Global History of the Olympics, published in 2016 by Macmillan in the UK and WW Norton in the US.
David is also a teacher at the Pitzer college, and all his students are impressed by his passion and dedication that he is giving them.
« David Goldblatt is not merely the best football historian writing today, he is possibly the best there has ever been », Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
« Goldblatt has a knack for putting football into its socio-economic context, a gift for synthesis, and frightening eloquence », Simon Kuper, Financial Times