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Soccernomics : Why England Has Started to Win, Why Clubs Sign the Wrong Players and Why Billionaires Still Lose Money in Football - Simon Kuper

Soccernomics

Why England Has Started to Win, Why Clubs Sign the Wrong Players and Why Billionaires Still Lose Money in Football

By: Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski

eBook | 24 May 2012

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The classic bestseller that changed how the world thinks about football

'Quite magnificent - a sort of Freakanomics of football.' Jonathan Wilson, Guardian**

'If you're a football fan, I'll save you some time: read this book' Daily Telegraph

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Football truly is the world's favourite game, followed in over 200 countries by hundreds of millions of people pouring their hearts and souls into supporting their chosen team every week.

But behind the passion are questions that all true football fans want answered: has football spending spun out of control? How much do managers matter? Is hosting a World Cup a poisoned chalice?

Soccernomics challenges the conventional wisdom to reveal the surprising truths that actually determine success and failure on the pitch. From an acclaimed economist and leading sports journalist, this modern classic uses data and economic principles to explore the myths that dominate the game.

Fully revised and updated ahead of the 2026 World Cup, Soccernomics takes you behind the passion and into the patterns - revealing why your team wins, why it loses, and why the game you love doesn't always work the way you think it does.

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Soccernomics is essential reading for anyone in search of a more strategic, systematic perspective on the game, answering the questions that most consume football fans.

Industry Reviews

'an Arsene Wenger of a book - more thoughtful than most of its rivals and, by football standards, positively intellectual.' The Times

'Soccernomics is the intellectual's guide to football, written for the layman. No matter what nation, club (or even sport, really) you support, you'll walk away from this book with an insightful new point of view that will cause you to never look at the game quite the same way again.' Bleacher Report

'...the author Simon Kuper and the economist Stefan Szymanski do for soccer what "Moneyball" did for baseball.' New York Times

'Every page engages, entertains and challenges the lazy assumptions that still dominate football, not merely in its punditry, but all too often in the way that clubs are run.' FourFourTwo

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