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Book
The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football
David Goldblatt
2006
A sweeping single-volume history tracing football's spread from Victorian England to a global obsession.
Widely regarded as the definitive one-volume global football history.
- Language
- English
- Length
- 992 pp
- Subject
- Global football history
- Region
- Europe
- Tone
- Serious
- Difficulty
- Deep
- Awards
- William Hill Sports Book of the Year shortlist
Penguin paperback; widely available in bookstores and libraries
In print
Sourcepenguin.co.uk
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