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Football Against the Enemy
Simon Kuper
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Description for Football Against the Enemy
Paperback. The classic winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8. BIC Classification: WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 256.
'GREAT' Independent
'TERRIFIC' Guardian
'WONDERFUL' Time Out
'QUALITY' Mail on Sunday
'DEFINITIVE' FourFourTwo
Winner of the William Hill Sports Book Award
Featured in FourFourTwo's list of 'The 10 Best Football Books Ever'
Featured in Esquire's 'Best Sports Books Ever Written'
Throughout the world, football is a potent force in the lives of billions of people. Focusing national, political and cultural identities, football is the medium through which the world's hopes and fears, passions and hatreds are expressed.
Simon Kuper travelled to twenty-two countries from South Africa and Italy to Russia and the USA to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752848778
SKU
V9780752848778
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99-99
About Simon Kuper
Simon Kuper is an award-winning author and journalist, who has written for the Observer, The Times and the Guardian. He has worked for the Financial Times since 2002 and is currently their Life & Arts Columnist. He is the author of the modern classic Football Against the Enemy, which was awarded the William Hill Sports Book Award in 1994; Ajax, ... Read more
Reviews for Football Against the Enemy
A terrific book: deftly written, fascinating in its sweep as the scene shifts from continent to continent, surprisingly confident in its execution and mature in most of its judgements, yet at the same time fresh in the way that only a young man's work really can be.'
Guardian
Another great work on football. Why was it undiscovered for ... Read more
Guardian
Another great work on football. Why was it undiscovered for ... Read more