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Biographical note
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, The Dutch, The War; co-author of Soccernomics; The Football Men; Barca, which won the Sunday Times Football Book of the Year 2022; The Happy Traitor; Chums; and Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century.<b>A terrific book</b>: deftly written, <b>fascinating </b>in its sweep as the scene shifts from continent to continent, surprisingly <b>confident in its execution and mature in most of its judgements</b>, yet at the same time <b>fresh </b>in the way that only a young man's work really can be.'
Guardian
Another <b>great work</b> on football. Why was it undiscovered for so long... effervescent and hilarious.
Independent
He writes with immense authority... his book is also <b>hysterically funny</b>. This is <b>a wonderful book</b> written under great duress at times and full of the spirit of youthful exuberance and curiosity that runs way beyond the touchline.
Time Out
Quality football books have mushroomed... but <b>none matches this global examination for originality, breadth and sheer courage.</b>
Mail on Sunday
If you like football, <b>read it</b>. If you don't like football, read it.
- Simon Barnes, The Times
<b>Fascinating</b>... Simon Kuper has written <b>a riveting book</b>.
Irish Times
Perceptive and <b>highly entertaining</b>.
Financial Times
It's a <b>great</b> idea for a book, so much so that it's surprising no one has thought of it before... There's <b>unlikely to be a better football book published</b> this year.
When Saturday Comes
<b>Excellent</b>... An <b>entertaining and incisive</b> book that anyone with the slightest interest in football should read.
World Soccer
A <b>sweeping, panoramic</b> view of the culture surrounding the game, an insight into how often and how profoundly twenty-two men and a ball can become a cipher for ideology, religion and love. <b>A colossal achievement.</b>
Ikon
Part anthropology, part travelogue, all <b>fascinating</b>... Two decades after the book's publication, saturation football coverage and internet access means that fans are far more cosmopolitan in their outlooks than ever before. However<b>, <i>Football Against The Enemy</i> remains the only book to take a definitive sweep on world football</b>, and explain how political and cultural issues influence the game across the globe.
FourFourTwo
<b>Seminal</b>.
The 42
Picking up this book, you will understand the depth of the game.
Football Paradise
<b>accomplished </b>and <b>quirky </b>footballing travelogue... <b>remarkably good</b>; arguably <b>the first and the best in the n0w-not-so-new wave of 'literary' football tomes</b> that have followed... We all know football as a global obsession, these <b>fascinating </b>tales show just how far its reach extends.
Esquire
One of the most <b>deliciously moreish</b> football books... <b>a collection of excellent, energetically compiled essays</b>.
- Barney Ronay, Guardian