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The People's Game: How to Save Football

A View From a Front Seat in Football

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The People's Game: How to Save Football

By: Gary Neville
Narrated by: Mark Hadfield
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A passionate and personal account of how football has lost its soul by former player and leading pundit, Gary Neville.

The beautiful game is under threat. The greed and selfishness of the biggest clubs is harming the game—leaving other clubs struggling for financial survival and supporters behind.

It's time to fix football.

Football is the people's game. A sport accessible to everyone and enjoyed by millions around the world. But football is broken. Beneath the glamorous sheen of the Premier League, it's a game that's rusting and rotten. The growing influence and wealth of the biggest teams is harming the game, leaving fans out of pocket and other clubs clinging to survival. This isn't what football is about.

Gary Neville has had a front-row seat in football for over 30 years, witnessing the sport at every level—as a player, a coach, a pundit and an owner. Most of all, he's a fan.

The People's Game is Gary's vision for a brighter future. Drawing on interviews with those at the epicentre of the sport's biggest issues—from the role of ownership to the lack of funding in the football league, the rise in racism and the future of the women's game—he explains how football has sleepwalked into this mess and offers a new way forward. With stories from his own playing career, as well as insight into some of the biggest footballing decisions in recent history, this is a total look at the game today.

This is a passionate, personal and critical account of how football lost its soul, and what we can do to get it back.

©2022 Gary Neville (P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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This is one of those books you are better off reading… if like me you love your football and a fan of Gary Neville too then it doesn’t have the same impact with a narrator. At least with a book you can imagine Gary telling the stories and hearing his opinions in your own head if you know what I mean… I’ve had to stop and will buy the book to appreciate the points he wants to get across better. The voiceovers for his colleagues in the re-enactments and their own input/segments to the book are cringeworthy. Think for Jamie carraghers it’s a Scottish guy trying to do a scouse accent.. just couldn’t continue listening. But take nothing away from the book itself and it’s certainly a topic that needs more understanding, discussion and a better understanding of before the fat cats try to ruin our beautiful game any further.

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Enjoyed the book and as a football fan I
Loved the description of the enjoyment of actually going to a game with his dad when he was
a little Boy - I appreciated that memory.
Respected the fact that Gary having researched the book he had the ability to change his mind on certain issues within the game.That proved to me that his fundamental interest is his passion for the game at all levels.

Passion

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a range of voices representative of voices in the football community on all things football governance. has a Neville slant, but understandable.
still worth a read

Great summary of views on football governance

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Excellent listen. Balanced and well structured. Recommended. A must listen for all lovers of football in this country.

Excellent!

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Great content as you'd expect from Neville, but not the same without him narrating, despite being listed as so when preordering. Gave up when someone trying to do a Scouse accent started to narrate Jamie Carragher's part. Will return and buy the book instead.

Neville, but disappointingly, without Neville

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