David Goldblatt





David Goldblatt

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David Goldblatt is a highly experienced sports writer, broadcaster, and journalist. He is the author of The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football (Penguin, 2006), the definitive historical account of the world’s game. He has also written the World Football Yearbook (Dorling Kindersley, 2002), which was published in nine languages and ran to three editions.

As a journalist, he has written for most of the quality broadsheet newspapers including the Guardian, the Observer, the Financial Times, and The Independent on Sunday, as well as for magazines such as the New Statesman and the New Left Review. He is a regular reviewer of sports books for The Independent and The Times Literary Supplement and is currently the sports’ columnist for Pros...more


Average rating: 4.15 · 426 ratings · 53 reviews · 39 distinct works
The Ball is Round: A Global...
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions
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The Soccer Book
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Aesthetics: A Reader in Phi...
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The Football Book
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David Goldblatt (Phaidon 55's)
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David Goldblatt: Photograph...
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David Goldblatt Intersections
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Some Afrikaners Photographed
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1975
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Football Yearbook 2004 5
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World Soccer Yearbook: The ...
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions
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