There's a growing canon of soccer literature. From Nick Hornby's very English, "Bloke-ish" Fever Pitch and his soccer essays to David Goldblatt's witty and eclectic The Ball is Round: A Global History ...

Books about sport are a bit like players - some are pretty dreadful, most are about the same standard and so don't really stand out and occasionally one comes along that excels to the point that they ...

Simon Kuper and Stefan Syzmanski have entered this fray with Soccernomics, which was published in the UK under the much more compelling title Why England Lose. Kuper is an anthropologist who has ...

LONDON: "Soccernomics" economist Stefan Szymanski says the "pent-up demand" underpinning the concept of a European Super League will not disappear, despite the launch in Britain of a wholesale review ...

The president delivered his first White House address to the nation on the war in Iran this week. In an interview with Vanity Fair, over a background track of Fox News programming, he touted his ...

There are, however, two big problems with the book. You will find their names listed on the front cover. It is not that the two authors of Soccernomics are bad writers, bad people, fans of the wrong ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From our cousins at the Economist, a nifty graphic of Europe’s most valuable football fans: As the weekly ...

Yesterday the Daily Mirror, a British tabloid, ran an article claiming that if England were to make it to the final of Euro 2012 it could provide a “ feelgood boost worth up to £2BILLION to the ...

Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire/Press Association ImagesAn analysis from the year 2003 to 2012 of the Premier League clubs showed that the correlation between the transfer fee and the performance of players ...