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Why England Lose Simon Kuper

Why England Lose By Simon Kuper

Why England Lose by Simon Kuper


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Summary

At last, football has its answer to Freakonomics, The Tipping Point and The Undercover Economist.

Why England Lose Summary

Why England Lose: and Other Curious Phenomena Explained by Simon Kuper

At last, football has its answer to Freakonomics, The Tipping Point and The Undercover Economist. Why do England lose? Why do Newcastle United always buy the wrong players? How could Nottingham Forest go from winning the European Cup to the depths of League One? Penalties - what are they good for? These are questions every football fan has asked. Why England Lose answers them. It brings the techniques of bestselling books such as Freakonomics and The Undercover Economist to bear on our national sport. Written with an economist's brain and a football writer's skill, it applies high-powered analytical tools to everyday football topics. Why England Lose isn't in the first place about money. It's about looking at data in new ways. It's about revealing counterintuitive truths about football. It explains all manner of things about the game which newspapers just can't see. It all adds up to a new way of looking at football, beyond cliches about The Magic of the FA Cup, England's Shock Defeat and Newcastle's New South American Star. No training in economics is needed to read Why England Lose. But the reader will come out of it with a better understanding not just of football, but of how economists think and what they know.

Why England Lose Reviews

For Simon Kuper's Football Against the Enemy: A terrific book, deftly written Guardian Another great work on soccer ! effervescent and hilarious Independent

About Simon Kuper

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).

Additional information

GOR001699602
9780007301119
0007301111
Why England Lose: and Other Curious Phenomena Explained by Simon Kuper
Used - Very Good
Hardback
HarperCollins Publishers
20090806
352
Short-listed for British Sports Book Awards: Best Football Book 2010
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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