Relationship between short prose and football should be considered in the same context as the correlation between the structure of a literary genre and its function to the modern consumer society. There are few selected examples in the Croatian literature covering the topic of football: a collection of short stories The Survival League by Gordan Nuhanović (2001), a novel 88 Minutes by Jurica Pavičić (2002), a collection of short stories Free Kick(2006) by several prominent authors (Julijana Matanović, Svjetlan Lacko Vidulić, Goran Tribuson, Borivoj Radaković, Jurica Pavičić, Boris Beck, De-limir Rešicki, Gordan Nuhanović, Simo Mraović, Boris Dežulović and Milana Vuković Runjić) and a novel by Borivoje Radaković, Splendor of the Epoch(1990, 2009). The definition of the game in the above corpus suggests its role within the culture and the most prominent field where it still exists in its original forms or sport. Despite a certain difference between the ancient and the modern game, in today’s social order, only one common characteristic can be singled out – the distinction between the real and the unreal. The exchange of high and low, in the postmodern paradox procedure, is the only way of presenting and interpreting the current problems of contemporary literature and its consumerism.