World Cup Fever

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The ultimate book for anyone who loves football, and plenty who don't ... Unmissable -- 'Sports Books of the Year' * Mail on Sunday * Delightful * Economist * Kuper is one of the best sportswriters in the English language today * New Yorker * Kuper is an excellent guide... his book is filled with memorable vignettes * Spectator * Charming and amusing * Literary Review * Kuper keeps the pages turning ... shines a light on the geopolitical happenings around each tournament * Irish Times * An essential warm-up for making sense of the extraordinary World Cup to come ... [Kuper] is a wry and sharp-eyed guide to the high-camp theatre of Fifa politics and the everyday carnival of fans on city streets * New Statesman * [Kuper] is one of the great soccer authors of the past few decades -- Malachy Clerkin * Irish Times * I love this book. An extraordinary work of nonfiction; it's personal, global - a remarkable book -- John Green * The Away End Podcast * A zippy history of football's biggest tournament * YOU Magazine * A delightful memoir, travelogue, and journal, Simon Kuper's World Cup Fever is a wry and sharp-eyed account of the world's now biggest public ritual. A brilliant evocation of the joy of the football carnival and the absurdities of the global spectacle, it remains alert to the game's ever closer pact with money and power. It is an essential companion to the tournament, for it allows us to look at the sun and not be blinded -- David Goldblatt, author * The Ball is Round * A series of wise, wry and revealing reflections on football's greatest tournament and what it tells us about the world. Football Against the Enemy was one the three books that effectively invented modern football writing, and Kuper continues to lead the genre. -- Jonathan Wilson, author * Inverting the Pyramid * Praise for Barca: A masterfully written history of the world's greatest football club -- Gary Lineker An instant classic -- Bill Buford Simply unmissable -- Amy Raphael A masterclass on football -- John Carlin Praise for Soccernomics: Magnificent * Guardian * An Arsene Wenger of a book - more thoughtful than most of its rivals and, by football standards, positively intellectual. * The Times *