Simon Kuper
Person on 4 sites
Financial Times columnist and author of Football Against the Enemy and, with Stefan Szymanski, Soccernomics.
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7 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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17 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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France’s streets are more violent and its politics more extreme than at any time since 2002. (opens korrents.com)
“I've been in France since 2002 and have never seen the streets so violent nor the politics so extreme.”
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Gianni Infantino will probably survive as Fifa president. (opens korrents.com)
“Yet Infantino will probably survive. In fact, he might be exactly the Fifa president that most of the world’s football associations want.”
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Infantino runs Fifa like a typical 21st-century autocrat. (opens korrents.com)
“In short, Infantino operates like a typical 21st-century autocrat: growing rich from what should be a position of public service, winning serial elections unopposed and ruling almost solo.”
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France’s streets are more violent and its politics more extreme than at any time since 2002. (opens korrents.com)
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5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Fever Pitch (opens rcmnd.app)
“It's not depressing! It's very funny and was also almost the book that started this all off.”
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All Played Out (opens rcmnd.app)
“Pete Davies really started off English football literature, and when I was going around London publishers in 1991, trying to sell them my first football book, people said to me, 'Oh yes, we know football books sell,…”
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Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer (opens rcmnd.app)
“This is about Holland and Dutch football and what makes it special. I grew up in Holland, so I have a particular tie to this book.”
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Fever Pitch (opens rcmnd.app)