IN HIS LATEST PIECE ON FOOTBALL LITERATURE, JONNY BRICK HEADS BACK TO 1994, WHEN A YOUNG SIMON KUPER WENT ON A PICARESQUE VOYAGE THROUGH WORLD FOOTBALL...
Author: Simon Kuper
THESE days, Simon Kuper is a Renaissance man. The 55-yearold has a weekly column in the Financial Times and writes books which take in double agents, the Good Chap theory of British government and Paris, the city in which he resides.
You may have read his rather personal book on Dutch Jews and Ajax, or his contributions to a book variously known as Soccernomics and Why England Lose.
His collected interviews ...