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WHY THE CLUB CONTINUES TO LEAD THE WAY

The Club: How the Premier League Became the Richest, Most Disruptive Business in Sport, by Jonathan Clegg and Joshua Robinson, published by John Murray, Price £16.99. Rating out of 10: 8
IN ‘The Club’, two Wall Street Journal writers Jonathan Clegg and Joshua Robinson provide a telling insight into the excesses of the Premier League (PL) and how it has become a global business with little concern for local communities. This is the story of how the PL broke away from the Football League in 1992 and how it has now become the playground of billionaires with designs on glob...

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