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Why England Lose: And other curious phenomena explained Hardcover – 6 Aug. 2009
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Print length344 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherHarperSport
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Publication date6 Aug. 2009
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Dimensions14 x 3.1 x 21.9 cm
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ISBN-100007301111
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ISBN-13978-0007301119
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- Publisher : HarperSport (6 Aug. 2009)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 344 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0007301111
- ISBN-13 : 978-0007301119
- Dimensions : 14 x 3.1 x 21.9 cm
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For Simon Kuper's Football Against the Enemy:
"A terrific book, deftly written" Guardian
"Another great work on soccer … effervescent and hilarious" Independent
About the Author
Simon Kuper's first book, Football Against the Enemy, won the 1994 William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize and is widely acknowledged as one of football's seminal books. Simon writes a weekly sports column in the Financial Times and has previously written football columns for The Times and The Observer. Stefan Szymanski is Professor of Economics and MBA Dean at Cass Business School in London. Stefan has a global reputation and has acted as a consultant to government and to major sports organisations such as the FIA (motor sport), UEFA (football) and the ICC (cricket).
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The book itself is probably worth 4 stars. A scrupulously fact-checked, exhaustive analysis, it is not. Nor is it intended to be. It is supposed to be a book looking at some interesting phenomena in football in a new and entertaining way. In that it succeeds. You probably won't agree with every argument, but you are at least challenged to come up with a counter-argument instead of falling back on pundits' clichés.
The chapter I felt was missing was whether it is true that "the league doesn't lie". The hypothesis is that over 38 or 42 games, luck / randomness / bad refereeing decisions etc. should even themselves out. It should be possible to analyse this statistically - and not just by one team's fans looking at specific decisions that "cost them" - but oddly, the authors didn't go there.
Still, the rest is a good read. Just not on a Kindle.
A reader with a basic knowledge of statistics would probably enjoy it more - each chapter is almost written as a separate essay on the subject.
At the heart of the book are some interesting and worryingly predictable observations. If you haven't got it and fancy a book about football to make you think - this is it !
