{"product_id":"9781785310270","title":"The Ugly Game: How Football Lost its Magic and What it Could Learn from the NFL","description":"At its best, football is a glorious, uplifting, unifying sport. But it hasn't been at its best for some time. Disillusioned by corruption scandals, billionaire club owners and an ever-smaller group of title challengers, Martin Calladine drifted away from the game that had defined 25 years of his life. He found solace in an unexpected place: American football. Despite the glitz and the endless ad breaks, the NFL has a curiously Corinthian purity: preventing teams buying success by sharing TV money equally, having a strict salary cap and, with the draft, letting the worst teams get the pick of the best new players. \u003ci\u003eThe Ugly Game\u003c\/i\u003e is a funny, angry book of essays for football fans setting out where the game has gone wrong and showing that, perhaps surprisingly, the NFL has many of the answers.","brand":"Pitch Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140069179632,"sku":"9781785310270","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781785310270_p0.jpg?v=1769892546","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781785310270","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}