Football Against the Enemy - Simon Kuper

I used to love football. After all, I once lived in a country where liking football was, believe it or not, regarded as offensively intellectual, so liking it put me where I liked to be: in a smug minority. Obviously, I’ve had to re-evaluate my affiliation to the sport over the past decade or so. Football has become so bloody popular. Spearheaded by Man United. Who were selling sets of golf-clubs in team colors before the Premier League was even a lustful twinkle in an accountant’s eye. But what the hell. It is still the best, and most beautiful, sport on earth and disliking it because of some of the people who take part in or run it would be like ...  Read the complete review