FREE THE BEAUTIFUL GAME?: SEARCHING FOR THE SOUL OF FOOTBALL PDF David Conn | 448 pages | 04 Aug 2005 | Vintage Publishing | 9780224064361 | English | London, United Kingdom The Beautiful Game? Searching for the Soul of Football by David Conn Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Searching for the Soul of Football by David Conn. Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — The Beautiful Game? The Beautiful Game? An outstanding, thought-provoking study of the state of modern professional football. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published January by Yellow Jersey Press first published More Details Original Title. Other Editions 3. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Beautiful Game? Searching for the Soul of Footballplease sign up. Be the first to ask a question about The Beautiful Game? Searching for the Soul of Football. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Beautiful Game? Once you read this book, your enjoyment of the game will never quite be the same, but tempered by an ugly side where people's love and passion is easily exploited by owners and speculators. I mean, I still love the game, but I can no longer see it for the innocent joy it brings to children like those I have coached. Even at amateur junior level, I saw the way presidents of The Beautiful Game?: Searching for the Soul of Football manipulated funds to get their senior mens teams promoted, buying players, dirty deals to pay a top striker etc. I've Once you read this book, your enjoyment of the game will The Beautiful Game?: Searching for the Soul of Football quite be the same, but tempered by an ugly side where people's love and passion is easily exploited by owners and speculators. I've see the way teenage kids from public housing are duped into thinking the game is their meal ticket and become exploited by the same ruthless presidents. Imagine this scenario with real money, one-eyed, doe-eyed fans who love their club and dream about it's glory days returning getting screwed by a ruthless owner who forces the 'club' to rent the ground from him for exorbitant rates and pay him many times what he's worth as a general manager. Then decamping and leaving the club saddled with debt and an uncertain future. Passion vs profit, if only clubs were owned by their members, and that were law. Then it would be worth believing in football again. Jul 25, Gregg rated it it was amazing. Excellent but worrying for any real football fan. Sep 07, Steve Chilton rated it really liked it. A brilliant, but ultimately depressing, dissection of the changes that have happened in football. It makes you wonder if the Football Association are fit to be the governing body of the sport. This is a book for everybody who have a real interest in football and what mechanics, economical and emotional, that drives people to the beautiful game. If anybody thought that rich people's interest in football started with the oligarchs and sheiks this book proves them wrong. Rich people have always invested in football, some because they thought it was a good investment, others for the The Beautiful Game?: Searching for the Soul of Football of the game. Unfortunately most of them failed and drove the clubs into economical despair. The book i This is a book for everybody who have a real interest in football and what mechanics, economical and emotional, that drives people to the beautiful game. The book is a warmhearted ode to the small clubs and their supporters, and a big shout out to the people who Conn feels are ruining football with their money and debt. I'm curious though, Conn is Man The Beautiful Game?: Searching for the Soul of Football fan, my copy of the book is fromso before the sheik entered City. Does he feel that this is a victory of his City or a loss for the beautiful game? Mar 25, Richard O'Brien rated it really liked it. Richards shed no light as to what I already knew about very own club. Prahaps Sepp Blatter should read this following his 'slave' comment! Jun 24, Jak rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Any football fan. I liked and hated this book in equal measure. But having my cynical worst fears confirmed was saddening and made my blood boil. This book is a must for any true footie fan. May 21, Tim Evans rated it it was amazing. A must for any football fans. Conn is a god. Aug 13, Simon rated it it was ok. It had some slow parts, and went over a lot of what I read in Broken Dreams about how the Premier League is ruining football in England. I The Beautiful Game?: Searching for the Soul of Football when The Beautiful Game?: Searching for the Soul of Football went into depth on a few clubs and how they were either ripped off by a rich jerk or run well. Aug 03, Sean rated it really liked it Shelves: footballnon-fiction, own. I didn't truly understand the incompetence of the game's governing bodies, the greed of the clubs' shareholders, or more encouragingly, the love and sheer bloody mindedness of football supporters up and down the country until I had read this book. Feb 17, Ben Hathaway rated it liked it Shelves: a-lifes-work. Apr 24, Richard rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Football fans The Beautiful Game?: Searching for the Soul of Football can read. A great insight into the murky world of football. If you like football, read it. 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Availability: The beautiful game? : searching for the soul of football / David Conn. When abuse from the stands prompted AC Milan's Kevin-Prince Boateng to leave the pitch in a friendly match, racism shot to the top of soccer's agenda. The outcry that followed forced football's authorities to confront some tough questions: Why is racism still prevalent in the game in ? Has enough been done to combat it? And can it be exorcised completely? CNN World Sport asked some of soccer's leading figures about the problem of racism in the beautiful game and how it can be tackled The Beautiful Game?: Searching for the Soul of Football good:. In pictures: Soccer steps up its long-running and turbulent fight against racism. More photos: Italy's complex racism problem. Kevin-Prince Boateng's decision to walk off the pitch during a game in which he was racially abused could be the turning point in soccer's war against racism. CNN World Sport producer Harry Reekie discovers a new appetite to stamp out racism in football but warns it could take centuries to realize. Leading international soccer player Mario Balotelli The Beautiful Game?: Searching for the Soul of Football had enough -- the AC Milan striker has vowed to walk off the pitch next time he is racially abused at a football game. After a season played to a backdrop of racist incidents, CNN's John Sinnott finds a complex picture in Italian football in which nothing is black and white. World The Beautiful Game?: Searching for the Soul of Football provides an inside track to the major issues and stories making news in the world of sport with CNN's anchors, correspondents and journalists providing opinion and in-depth analysis to the events that matter. CNN International. Racism has been a stain on the soul of soccer for generations but a series of high-profile incidents in recent years has prompted calls for tougher action from football's governing bodies. CNN World Sport examines why racism continues to be a problem, what is being done to tackle discrimination and whether it can be eradicated from the game forever. Balotelli: Racism makes me feel alone. World Sport Presents: Racism in Football. Why so few South Asian footballers? Tackling racism in the stands. Boateng explains Milan protest. Webb: FIFA reforms 'defining moment'. Platini on UEFA racism measures. CNN World Sport asked some of soccer's leading figures about the problem of racism in the beautiful game and how it can be tackled for good: Former Ghana international Kevin-Prince Boateng explains why he walked off the pitch against Pro Patria after being racially abused.