Why England Lose - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why England Lose write by Simon Kuper. This book was released on 2010. Why England Lose available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. FOOTBALL (SOCCER, ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL). Written with an economist's brain and a football writer's skill, this book applies high-powered analytical tools to everyday football topics. Why England Lose isn't in the first place about money. It's about looking at data in new ways. It's about revealing counterintuitive truths about football. It explains all manner of things about the game which newspapers just can't see. It all adds up to a new way of looking at football, beyond cliches about "The Magic of the FA Cup", "England's Shock Defeat" and "Newcastle's New South American Star". No training in economics is needed to read Why England Lose. But the reader will come out of it with a better understanding not just of football, but of how economists think and what they know.
Why England Lose: And other curious phenomena explained
Why England Lose: And other curious phenomena explained - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why England Lose: And other curious phenomena explained write by Simon Kuper. This book was released on 2009-08-06. Why England Lose: And other curious phenomena explained available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At last, football has its answer to Freakonomics, The Tipping Point and The Undercover Economist.
The Anatomy of England
The Anatomy of England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Anatomy of England write by Jonathan Wilson. This book was released on 2010-05-20. The Anatomy of England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'A masterful work...it could be the best thing to have happened to English football in years' TIME OUT '[A] thought-provoking reappraisal of ten key games in England's football history ... this book should be required reading for all future England squads' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY Having invented the game, everything that has followed for England and its national football team has been something of an anticlimax. There was, of course, the golden summer of 1966, and the great period of English dominance on the world stage, which fell roughly between 1886 and 1900, when England won 35 of their 40 internationals ... But before long foreign teams, with their insistence on progressive 'tactics', began to pose a few questions. And much of what followed for England constituted a series of false dawns. In THE ANATOMY OF ENGLAND Jonathan Wilson seeks to place the bright spots in context. Time and again, progressive coaches have been spurned by England - technique being all very well, but what really matters is pluck and 'organised muscularity', or, to quote Jimmy Hogan's chairman at Aston Villa in 1936: 'I've no time for these theories about football. Just get the ball in the bloody net.' Wilson takes ten key England fixtures and explores how what actually happened on the pitch shaped the future of the English game. Bursting with insight and critical detail, yet imbued with a wry affection, this is a history of England like none before.
The Numbers Game
The Numbers Game - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Numbers Game write by Chris Anderson. This book was released on 2013-07-30. The Numbers Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Moneyball meets Freakonomics in this myth-busting guide to understanding—and winning—the most popular sport on the planet. Innovation is coming to soccer, and at the center of it all are the numbers—a way of thinking about the game that ignores the obvious in favor of how things actually are. In The Numbers Game, Chris Anderson, a former professional goalkeeper turned soccer statistics guru, teams up with behavioral analyst David Sally to uncover the numbers that really matter when it comes to predicting a winner. Investigating basic but profound questions—How valuable are corners? Which goal matters most? Is possession really nine-tenths of the law? How should a player’s value be judged?—they deliver an incisive, revolutionary new way of watching and understanding soccer.
The Rough Guide to Cult Football
The Rough Guide to Cult Football - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rough Guide to Cult Football write by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2010-09-01. The Rough Guide to Cult Football available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Rough Guide to Cult Football is the ultimate companion to the beautiful game. The only football book of its kind, it goes beyond the usual back page material to uncover the most amazing stories and unlikeliest personalities on Planet Football. It reveals the stories behind the mavericks and cult figures that make up the real heroes of the game - from cultured midfielders to jailbirds, drinkers to hard men, local legends to international wanderers. The Rough Guide to Cult Football looks at everything from special clubs - like the New York Cosmos and Berwick Rangers - to managers and football rivalries - from 'El Clásico' to the Faroe Islands derby, via an unusual roll-call of talent that stretches from Ferenc Puskas to Stan Bowles, Eric Cantona to Jose Chilavert and Garrincha to Perry Groves. It also recalls extraordinary games, from 'The Battle of Highbury' to underdog fixtures where the likes of Northern Ireland, Wimbledon and Dynamo Kiev overcame the might of Spain, Liverpool and the Nazis. Post-match analyses of football culture, ephemera, science and some strange statistics, complete this ultimate fiesta of football fun.
