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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
European Dominance Beckons, 11 May 2004
Firstly this is not a book about football. This is about another metamorphosis of an institution close to the hearts of hundreds of thousand of football supporters throughout the world. A tale of how one man through his excessive wealth bought Chelsea Football Club and sent shock waves through the biggest most popular sport in the world.It tells the story of the acquisition of Chelsea Football Club, the individuals concerned the decisions made, the commentary at the time (not so long ago after all) the expectations and the ambitions. In fact it tells us all of this several times over. Harry Harris is a football writer not a business writer a biographer or social commentary writer and boy does it show. His explanation of the business transactions prior to, during and after the sale are confused and opaque; his writing of dialogue between the main protagonists is confusing – I often wasn’t sure who was meant to have said what to who and the constant repetition of the same events from differing points of view was tedious, at one point he repeated the same paragraph (Chelsea hadn’t won at Liverpool since 1935) twice on the same page. Even taking into account the above which maybe down to a poor editor this book gets 5 stars for a Chelsea fan but probably only 3 stars – at best – for someone who is only remotely interested.
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