More Than a Game

A superb historical overview of the eternally close and often symbiotic relationship between British sport and British society. Capacious, full of telling detail, unfailingly readable and, perhaps above all, imbued with rock-solid judgment,it deserves to become a classic of sporting literature -- David Kynaston
Absolutely fascinating and completely eye-opening - every page contains a gem. I loved it -- Marina Hyde, author of WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!
A fascinating insight into how sport is both driven by and a driver of societal change -- Jonathan Wilson, author of INVERTING THE PYRAMID
A sparkling history that makes the reader keep murmuring "I never knew that" -- Matthew Engel, author of ELEVEN MINUTES LATE
An elegant, richly-textured history -- Michael Taylor, author of THE INTEREST
Horspool places sport at the heart of Britain's story . . . A joy . . . More Than a Game observes the grand sweep of British sporting history playing out as a set of eye-opening facts -- Sunday Telegraph
Thoughtful and entertaining -- Guardian
More Than A Game brilliantly and evocatively details the way we shaped this obsession and how it came to shape us and, indeed, our landscape -- The Times, Best Sports Books of the Year
Horspool writes briskly and clearly . . . if you like to watch sport while thinking politics, this is the book for you -- Literary Review
He has a lovely eye for memorable details . . . The most powerful theme of Horspool's book, though, is his attention to women's sport, so often marginalised in older accounts -- Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
Highly original . . . lively, rich and readable . . . the range of Horspool's knowledge is impressive -- Leo McKinstry, The Spectator
Fascinating . . . More Than a Game observes the grand sweep of British sporting history playing out as a set of eye-opening facts -- Daily Telegraph
Illuminating . . . [Horspool] has a lovely eye for the informative detail -- Times Literary Supplement
Offers something rich, textured and complex: a thoughtful history of how sport has shaped society and vice versa. You will find delicious nuggets, several "I never knew that" fascinomas, and the overdue correction of long accepted narratives about our sport-obsessed nation -- The Critic