Football by Stephen Mumford - 9781509535316

Football: The Philosophy Behind the Game\nby Stephen Mumford\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Stephen Mumford\nTitle: Football: The Philosophy Behind the Game\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Political science and theory\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781509535316\nISBN-10: 1509535314\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nFootball is the most popular sport on the planet partly because it\u2019s so simple to play \u2013 but as philosopher, novelist and avid fan Stephen Mumford shows, behind the straightforward rules of the game there lurks a world of intriguing complexity. \nMumford considers the intellectual basis upon which football rests, guiding readers through a number of issues at the heart of the game. How can a team be greater than t.