5 Quotes & Sayings By Simon Kuper

Simon Kuper is a football writer and analyst for the Financial Times and one of the most prominent football writers in the world. He has contributed to major publications such as The Economist, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Vanity Fair. He is also an ICCF-certified mediator and a former associate editor at the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Simon is a board member of ICAHD and the co-author of the book Soccernomics: Why England Loses and Spain Wins, which was released in 2005.

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Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business. Simon Kuper
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It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies. Simon Kuper
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Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity. Simon Kuper
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Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere. Simon Kuper