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Very chuffed to get my hands on a copy of my book World Cup Fever - a story of the tournament told through my own nine World Cups. It's out in English and Dutch in early October, but you can already preorder it, e.g. here waterstones.com/book/world-c…
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I go deep inside the Nobel prize for literature. How the award was invented, what it does, and why despite everything we're lucky to have it. Free link here: as.ft.com/r/3279d63f-7513-49… @FT
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Very psyched to be hosting this event with Julian Jackson on Charles de Gaulle, in Paris on Oct 20. Link to tickets here. Prof Jackson wrote the prizewinning biography of De Gaulle on which the brilliant new biopic is based americanlibraryinparis.org/e…
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Inside the Nobel Prize for literature. As the Swedish Academy chooses the winner of the book world’s most prestigious award, Simon Kuper looks back at an august ideal often marred by politics and bias ft.com/content/4c4197fa-7b16… via @ft
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Been a little while since we've posted on social media, but we're back with some exciting news!
The Soccernomics Podcast is a finalist at the @signalawards in the Sports Podcast Genre
Vote for us for their Listener's Choice Award at the link below:
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Some non divisive news to tweet
We can all agree that @KuperSimon Football Against The Enemy is an all time classic football book
It’s now 30 years old 😳 so @jonawils and I invited Simon on to @ItWasPod Book Club to reminisce on a book that changed football writing
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Agreed. I don't sympathise with City. They knowingly broke the rules, which is cheating. My point is that the rules are silly, and reserve the league title for the three or so clubs with the highest revenues (bar the once-in-50-years event of Leicester winning the league)
That might be a good point but I would have more sympathy with Man City is they were trying to change the rules rather than break them and trying to cover it all up.
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However, the Premier League has become the highest-quality league in the world. I sort of think money had something to do with that
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Tonight, Russians bombed the "Loving Hearts" animal shelter in Odesa, killing hundreds of dogs and cats.
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Manchester City has been found guilty of breaching Premier League financial regulations. Simon Kuper argues the football club should be punished, but the rules on spending and ownership should also change.
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Oh dear lord read the article people I literally say that City should be punished for breaking the rules, i.e. cheating. Here's the article again for those with the stamina to read 650 whole words. Free link. Shout at me only after reading as.ft.com/r/d5fa88f1-1ef1-41…
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The fucking Russian war criminals just bombed the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. I have no idea how many people were inside and there’s at least one dead at the side entrance.
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Very smart piece that shows that if you stop owners spending money, middling sides have almost no chance of challenging the top dogs. "Growing organically" into becoming a title-winning side doesn't happen
The Premier League grew by being a lightly regulated, investor friendly, competition. Over-regulation risks damaging the league's appeal to inward investment.
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Err as I say in my article. People, the basic rule is that you have to read the article before shouting at me. I know reading is really tiring and everything but don't try to guess what I said from reading my three-line tweet
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This is a misunderstanding. I do worry about small clubs without rich owners going into administration. They invariably survive (see e.g. Bury and Macclesfield) but lots of damage is done. The Man C/Newcastle issues are totally different
That’s fine then…don’t worry about the pyramid! What about Everton, Vilka and Sunderland who almost went into administration, sheff wed and leeds. Plus dodgy owners at Liverpool! ? All small clubs? What if PIF pull out of NU?
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