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116 reviews for:
The Club: How the Premier League Became the Richest, Most Disruptive Business in Sport
Jonathan Clegg, Joshua Robinson
4.2 AVERAGE
116 reviews for:
The Club: How the Premier League Became the Richest, Most Disruptive Business in Sport
Jonathan Clegg, Joshua Robinson
4.2 AVERAGE
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Sometimes sports books like this are shallow and clumsy, but this one seemed to me to be well-written and carefully researched. It tells an engaging history of the world's most popular sports league, while effectively underlining that history with the fact that the more money gets pumped into this thing, the further it strays from what its oldest supporters love about it. I'm not sure if reading this made me more or less interested in following the Premier League, and I think in part that might be what the authors are shooting for.
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Perfect book for someone like me who has only recently gotten into watching Premier League soccer. Not a comprehensive history of the league, but a detailed account of how the PL grew to become the richest, most watched league in the world. Well written, quick chapters.
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Detailed explanation of history and current tensions
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Read this one from the bottom of a ball pit at Chuck E Cheese. I had been trying to find my sons socks that he lost in there but I underestimated both how deep the pit was and how heavy the weight of the balls becomes at a certain depth, so I got trapped down there. I probably should have let the shoes go, but my son had made me handpaint them to look like feet cause he said all the "cool" kids are rawdogging the climbing structure but he was afraid cause also many of them were getting warts and fungus afterwards so he still wanted to wear socks. I told him I don't think that's what rawdogging means but then he said what does it mean then and then I said you're right that is what it means cause I didn't want to explain. Anyway when nobody could find me Chuck E Cheese called my ex-wife and she and her lover Jeremy came to pick up my son and apparently got a little handsy with each other in front of the animatronic band. I finally got rescued when the police dredged the bottom of the pit looking for bodies which they said they have to do once a week because of "people like me." This book was good.