Been meaning to read this forever, so rather than sit and day-drink between WC games one day, I walked down to the Tattered Cover and finally picked it up. Short, essay-sized chapters on topics that footy fans expound on with great certainty, that these guys (one a football scribe, the other an e...
This book called Soccernomics and the reason why I liked this book so much was because it talked about a lot of countries. These experts in soccer talk about all the countries why they suck and why they are good and why some countries win and win and keep winning this book answers all the questio...
Meh. Is my description. Not great not terrible. Just, meh. Some chapters much better than others, and those good chapters are worth reading over and over.
a very thoroughly economic-based research book about soccer.. A fun book on the economics of world class soccer in the fine class of books like Freakonomics.
They found that a balanced English game could sometimes increase attendance. However, they also carried out a simulation to show that if the English leagues became more balanced, they would attract fewer fans. That is because a balanced league, in which all teams are equally good, would turn into...
On Wednesday night Andrés Iniesta was twenty-five years old, in Rome, at his peak, and part of a Barcelona team that was passing rings around Manchester United. This was as good as it gets. So for a second during yet another attack he just rolled the ball around under his foot, as if tickling its...