Moving the Goalposts

During the twentieth century, football became not only England's definitive national sport but also a lucrative globalized business. How did this change come about? What did it all mean to the players, fans, media and the country at large?Moving the Goalposts is a lively history of how English football was transformed in the twentieth century. It paints a picture of a game initially defined by provincial respectability and social conservatism, showing how those values were increasingly chal