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David Goldblatt

David Goldblatt

David Goldblatt

History of Football, Political Economy of Football

Professional Career

Author (see below)
THE GUARDIAN, Journalist
THE FINANCIAL TIMES, Journalist
BBC, Broadcaster
PITZER COLLEGE, Teacher

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

The Games: A Global History of the Olympics
For millions of people around the world, the Summer and Winter Games are a joy and a treasure, but how did they develop into a global colossus? How have they been buffeted by―and, in turn, affected by―world events? Why do we care about them so much?

Publication: 2016
Editor: W. W. Norton & Company
The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football
In the last two decades football in Britain has made the transition from a peripheral dying sport to the very centre of our popular culture, from an economic basket-case to a booming entertainment industry. What does it mean when football becomes so central to our private and political lives? Has it enriched us or impoverished us?

Publication: 2014
Editor: Penguin
Winner of the 2015 William Hill Sports Book of the Year
Futebol Nation: A Footballing History
From the genius of Pelé to corruption and civil unrest, no nation has so closely aligned its national identity with playing and watching football as Brazil.

Publication: 2014
Editor: Penguin
How to Watch the Olympics
Millions of people will tune into the Olympic Games, the largest and most popular sporting event in the world. Yet while it’s easy to be fascinated by agile gymnasts, poised equestrians, and perfectly synchronized swimmers, few of us know the real width of a balance beam, the intricate regulations of dressage, or the origin of those crowd-pleasing legs-in-the-air swimming formations.

Publication: 2011
Editor: Profile Books
with Johnny Acton
The Football Book: A Global Encyclopaedia
Learn to bend it like Beckham and dribble like Ronaldinho with this ultimate visual guide to planet football. Open up the tactile padded cover and experience the excitement, the passion and the glory of arguably the world’s greatest sport – football

Publication: 2009
Editor: DK
The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football
There may be no cultural practice more global than football. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest simultaneous human collective experience is the World Cup final.

Publication: 2006
Editor: Penguin
The World Football Yearbook
Thousands of football statistics are brought to life with full colour photographs, charts, graphs and diagrams. In-depth special features include ‘Football Cities’ and ‘World Issues’, together with information on the top 20 players and top 10 managers of all time.

Publication: 2002-2004
Editor: DK
with Philip Lord 
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