Essay
Learning from the beautiful game
A trio of books on football sparks a meditation on Britishness, success, failure and the sporting life for one writer.
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Max Liu is a freelance journalist. He writes for the Guardian, Financial Times and the i newspaper, and is currently working on 'The Best Man', a memoir about friendship. He hosts Reading and Resistance, a literary salon at Waterstones Gower Street where writers discuss the relationship between art and politics.