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Request QuoteDavid 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. His most recent teaching gig was as Visiting Professor at Pitzer College, Los Angeles.
Produced for The Guardian [UK]
Luzira was once the most notorious prison in Uganda. Now it’s home to what is surely the world’s most elaborate prison football league – and a model for the transformative power of the beautiful game
Mathare United football club began life as a youth football association in one of the poorest slums in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The club draws it's ethnically diverse members from some of the most deprived areas in Kenyan society. Despite all this the club has continued to thrive, rising to rising to the top of the Kenyan football league.
David Goldblatt travels to Israel to meet the fans of Beitar Jerusalem football club. The fans pride themselves on their extreme nationalist views and anti-arab chanting at matches. Beitar fans boast that an Arab never has and never will play for the club.
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Produced for Aljazeera DNR
Produced for Aljazeera DNR
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