About the book: 1971 / The fourteenth book in the “Sport and Personality” series is the first experience of a professional writer speaking in this series. The circle of Honored Masters of Sports of the USSR, Honored Coaches of the USSR, who make up the authorial assets of our series, included the famous sports journalist and commentator Arkady Romanovich Galinsky. His book is the first attempt to analyze the state and ways of development of sports journalism in recent years, to trace the patterns of relationships between sports results and predicting them (or analyzing) sports press, to understand the specifics of its tasks. The main background for the conversation is the life of football. It is he, who has gained the greatest popularity among other sports disciplines, that devotes most of the time to radio and television sports programs, and receives so much attention in newspapers and magazines... And in this book, the conflicting life of football gives the author ample ground for debate and reflection.