![]() ![]() His autobiography, "The Keeper: A Life of Saving Goals and Achieving Them," tells the story of how he emerged from a struggling, single-parent household to become a star at Everton, a Premier League club in Liverpool. national team during the 2014 World Cup made him that rarest of creatures - an American soccer hero. It has attracted much of the world's finest soccer talent to the Sceptered Isle, and that includes Tim Howard, a New Jersey-bred goalkeeper whose heroics for the U.S. Yet there is something good to be said about the geyser of money drenching the Premier League. "But I am left wondering whether the best it can manage is to be the canary in the mine of our impending global mediocrity and domestic fragmentation." ![]() "I continue to hope that English football might offer the moments of grace, the collective drama and invented rituals and solidarities from which a different kind of nation might be imagined: the kind of more joyous, brighter and fairer society that (moderate postwar leftists) had in mind," Goldblatt writes. ![]()
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