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Why England Lose: And other curious phenomena explained

3.94 ( 17,411 Ratings by Goodreads)
Why England Lose: And other curious phenomena explained

Why England Lose: And other curious phenomena explained

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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.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780007354085
ISBN10 0007354088
Number Of Pages 368
Item Weight 258 g
Product Dimensions 124 x 28 x 196 mm
Publisher / Reseller HarperSport
Format paperback
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'Why England Lose is an Arsene Wenger of a book - more thoughtful than most of its rivals and, by football standards, positively intellectual.' The Times 'It is rare, even after the great leaps football literature has taken in the past two decades, to find a book that takes the breath away, but Why England Lose does. Every page engages, entertains and challenges the lazy assumptions that still dominate football, not merely in its punditry, but all too often in the way that clubs are run.' FourFourTwo

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Author's Bio

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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