Face to face Quote by Simon Kuper

“The theory of the “wisdom of crowds” says that if you aggregate many different opinions from a diverse group of people, you are much…

— Simon Kuper

Even before 2007, this half of a small island was the richest football country on earth. In 2005-2006 the Premiership's total revenue was about…

— Simon Kuper

“It’s sad to say, but it is much easier selling, for example, a crap Brazilian than a brilliant Mexican. The Brazilian gets across the…

— Simon Kuper

“Entrepreneurs who dip into soccer also keep making the same mistakes. They buy clubs promising to run them “like a business” and disappear a…

— Simon Kuper

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…

— Simon Kuper

Chelsea's players, coaches and agents are now football's wealthiest millionaires. Surely the billions taken from the Russian people by an oligarch in questionable privatisations…

— Simon Kuper

It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same…

— Simon Kuper

“Aulas spotted early that most soccer fans everywhere are much more like shoppers than like religious believers: if they can get a better experience…

— Simon Kuper

“Apparently the Germans had a database of 13,000 kicks.”

— Simon Kuper

“The club is not a business. It's a populist democracy.”

— Simon Kuper

“Stars of Recent World Cups, or European Championships Are Overvalued The worst time to buy a player is in the summer when he’s just…

— Simon Kuper

“Because soccer clubs are the only businesses that get daily publicity without trying to, they treat journalists as humble supplicants instead of as unpaid…

— Simon Kuper