FOOTBALL AGAINST THE ENEMY is a classic It has reprinted twelve times in its Phoenix paperback edition Winner of the 1994 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award Reissued in a new cover design alongside Simon Kuper's latest book, AJAX, THE DUTCH, THE WAR FOOTBALL AGAINST THE ENEMY attracted widespread critical acclaim on first publication: 'If you like football, read it. If you don't like football, read it' Simon Barnes, THE TIMES 'This is a wonderful book 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 soccer books have mushroomed...but none matches this global examination for originality, breadth and sheer courage' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Another great work on soccer ... effervescent and hilarious' INDEPENDENT 'A terrific book' GUARDIAN
Simon Kuper is the author of Football Against the Enemy and writes for the Observer and the Financial Times.
A terrific book: deftly written, fascinating in its sweep as the
scene shifts from continent to continent, surprisingly confident in
its execution and mature in most of its judgements, yet at the same
time fresh in the way that only a young man's work really can
be.'
*Guardian*
Another great work on football. Why was it undiscovered for so
long... effervescent and hilarious.
*Independent*
He writes with immense authority... his book is also hysterically
funny. This is a wonderful book 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 none matches this
global examination for originality, breadth and sheer courage.
*Mail on Sunday*
If you like football, read it. If you don't like football, read
it.
*The Times*
Fascinating... Simon Kuper has written a riveting book.
*Irish Times*
Perceptive and highly entertaining.
*Financial Times*
It's a great idea for a book, so much so that it's surprising no
one has thought of it before... There's unlikely to be a better
football book published this year.
*When Saturday Comes*
Excellent... An entertaining and incisive book that anyone with the
slightest interest in football should read.
*World Soccer*
A sweeping, panoramic 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. A colossal
achievement.
*Ikon*
Part anthropology, part travelogue, all fascinating... 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, Football Against The Enemy
remains the only book to take a definitive sweep on world football,
and explain how political and cultural issues influence the game
across the globe.
*FourFourTwo*
Seminal.
*The 42*
Picking up this book, you will understand the depth of the
game.
*Football Paradise*
accomplished and quirky footballing travelogue... remarkably good;
arguably the first and the best in the n0w-not-so-new wave of
'literary' football tomes that have followed... We all know
football as a global obsession, these fascinating tales show just
how far its reach extends.
*Esquire*
One of the most deliciously moreish football books... a collection
of excellent, energetically compiled essays.
*Guardian*
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