David Goldblatt

David Goldblatt is the author of the World Football Yearbook and The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football. He writes the Sporting Life column in Prospect, teaches sociology of sport at Bristol University and broadcasts regularly on the politics of sport for BBC Radio. Johnny Acton is a writer who specialises in digging up obscure nuggets of information and making complex subjects accessible. He has written books on everything from pickling food (Preserved with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall) to the history of balloons (The Man Who Touched the Sky).