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*The Game-changing Sunday Times Bestseller*
*Winner of Best Sports Writing at the Sports Book Awards*

What readers are saying about Gary Neville’s brilliant book about the future of football:

‘A great read about the state of the game’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘A must for any football fan’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Time for Premier League club owners to bring our game into 2023 and stop being so short sighted and insular’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Brilliant book written from a great view point, and with passion’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘The closest thing to a spokesman there is for English football.’ Sunday Times
‘Brilliant.’ Mail on Sunday
‘Gary Neville usually talks a lot of sense, and writes it too . . . Neville’s words are timely.’ Henry Winter
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The beautiful game is under threat. The greed and selfishness of the biggest clubs is harming the sport, with smaller clubs struggling for financial survival and supporters being left behind.

It’s time to fix football.
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Football is the people’s game. A sport accessible to everyone and enjoyed by millions around the world.

But football is broken. Beneath the glamourous 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 smaller clubs clinging to survival. The European Super League, which looked to eradicate competition in favour of guaranteed profits, was just the beginning.

This isn’t what football is about. Something’s got to change. Enough is enough.

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. Shocked by the state of the game, Gary looks to find out how we got into this mess, who’s responsible, and what we can do about it.

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, ownership models and the future of the women’s game – he explains how football has sleepwalked into this mess and offers a new path 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.
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From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hodder & Stoughton (20 July 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1529396018
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1529396010
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 2.54 x 19.56 cm

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*RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE | THE JHALAK PRIZE | THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARD & LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING

‘This is the book I’ve been waiting for – for years. It’s personal, historical, political, and it speaks to where we are now’ Benjamin Zephaniah

‘I recommend Natives to everyone’ Candice Carty-Williams

From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers – race and class have shaped Akala’s life and outlook. In this unique book he takes his own experiences and widens them out to look at the social, historical and political factors that have left us where we are today.

Covering everything from the police, education and identity to politics, sexual objectification and the far right, Natives speaks directly to British denial and squeamishness when it comes to confronting issues of race and class that are at the heart of the legacy of Britain’s racialised empire.

Natives is the searing modern polemic and Sunday Times bestseller from the BAFTA and MOBO award-winning musician and political commentator, Akala.

‘The kind of disruptive, aggressive intellect that a new generation is closely watching’ Afua Hirsch, Observer
‘Part biography, part polemic, this powerful, wide-ranging study picks apart the British myth of meritocracy’ David Olusoga, Guardian
‘Inspiring’ Madani Younis, Guardian
‘Lucid, wide-ranging’ John Kerrigan, TLS
‘A potent combination of autobiography and political history which holds up a mirror to contemporary Britain’ Independent
‘Trenchant and highly persuasive’ Metro
‘A history lesson of the kind you should get in school but don’t’ Stylist

From the Publisher

A searing modern polemic from musician and political commentator, Akala

From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers – race and class have shaped Akala’s life and outlook. In this unique book he takes his own experiences and widens them out to look at the social, historical and political factors that have left us where we are today.

Covering everything from the police, education and identity to politics, objectification and the far right, Natives will speak directly to British denial and squeamishness when it comes to confronting issues of race and class that are at the heart of the legacy of Britain’s racialised empire.

Akala is a hip-hop artist, writer and social entrepreneur, as well as the co-founder of The Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company.

With an extensive global touring history, Akala has appeared at numerous festivals both in the UK and internationally, and has led innovative projects in the arts, education and music across South East Asia, Africa, India, Australia and New Zealand.

Akala has also appeared on Channel 4, ITV, MTV, Sky Arts and the BBC promoting his music and poetry, and speaking on wide-ranging subjects from music, race, youth engagement, British/African-Caribbean culture and the arts, with numerous online lectures and performances that have millions of views on YouTube.

More recently known for his compelling lectures and journalism – he has written for the Guardian, Huffington Post and the Independent, and spoken for the Oxford Union and TEDx – Akala has gained a reputation as one of the most dynamic and articulate talents in the UK.

I was not born with an opinion of the world but it clearly seemed that the world had an opinion of people like me.

I did not know what race and class supposedly were but the world taught me very quickly.

I did not particularly want to spend a portion of a lifetime studying these issues, it was not among my ambitions as a child, but I was compelled upon this path very early.

I knew that my experiences were significant but I was not yet sure how to tease meaning from them.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Two Roads (21 Mar. 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1473661234
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1473661233
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.8 x 2.4 x 19.6 cm