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Customers find this book to be a must-read for Premier League fans, praising its well-written and easy-to-read content. Moreover, the book is superbly researched and goes over many interesting stories, with one customer highlighting how it explains behind-the-scenes action. Additionally, they appreciate the information quality, with one review noting it provides a fun way to learn about the league.
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The Club is the inside story of how English soccer’s Premier League became the wildest, richest, most popular sports product on the planet, “a narrative that is part Great Expectations, part Game of Thrones, in equal measure.” (Roger Bennett, NBC Sports, Men in Blazers)
This is a sports and business tale of how money, ambition, and twenty-five years of drama remade an ancient institution into a twenty-first-century entertainment empire. No one knew it when their experiment began, but without any particular genius or acumen, the motley cast of billionaires and hucksters behind the modern Premier League struck gold.
Pretty soon, everyone wanted to try their luck, from Russian oligarchs to Emirati sheikhs, American tycoons, and Asian Tiger titans. Some succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Some lost everything. Today, players are sold for tens of millions, clubs are valued in the billions, and games are beamed out to nearly two hundred countries, all while the league struggles to preserve its English soul.
Deeply researched and drawing on one hundred exclusive interviews, including the key decision makers at every major English team, The Club is the definitive and wildly entertaining narrative of how the Premier League took over the world.
Our Top Reviews
Reviewer: Tara S.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Such a well-written book!
Review: I was unfamiliar with European football until a friend tried explaining how it works. I decided that I needed more information, and this book did the trick! It was interesting to read the history of the sport and how it is constantly changing. A great book to own!
Reviewer: Weston P.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great read
Review: I never thought a non-fiction book could be a page turner but this one is it. I blew through it in under one week which is pretty fast for me! As an American who is relatively new to European soccer/football, this book really gave me a lot of insight into the Premier League.Have you ever looked at the list of Prem champions and wondered how and why Blackburn Rovers snuck their way onto that list? This book goes over a lot of interesting stories like that.It’s non-fiction but reads like a novel. I highly recommend it.
Reviewer: Thomas S. Peel
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: How English Football Became a Cash Super-Cow
Review: English football used to be drunk fans beating each other up in stadiums made of wood and chicken wire. Today it’s corporate and very profitable.Book explains how the sport built US-style stadiums and monetized everything possible. US football is #1 in only one country, while soccer-football is supreme in 150-plus. TV rights go for zillions!This is both a sports and business book, showing how upgrading facilities and looking for every possible revenue source can increase profits.
Reviewer: ssolomon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Would even recommend to non-football fans
Review: When I read the first edition of Soccernomics 5 or 6 years ago, I didn’t think I could like a book about football as much. And true to form, I haven’t since. But this book was incredible. Well-written, funny, interesting, and full of so many things I didn’t know! For PL die-hards, reading this book is a little like reading a book after you’ve seen the movie: you spend a lot of time like “I remember that!” and being excited (or heart-broken) to relive some pieces of your club’s history, anticipating a build-up to some key events in Premier League history, BUT you find out SO MUCH backstory, it’s fascinating!Now I’m reading the 3rd edition of Soccernomics, and it doesn’t feel as good as the first two versions, but ONLY because The Club was so good it simply eclipsed it.Hard recommend this book to any football fans, and even to people who know nothing about football.
Reviewer: Julia Wharton
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fantastic
Review: As an American who only started following the Premier League a few years ago, this was a fascinating book. It was so incredibly well structured and well researched. I finished the book with a wealth of knowledge about the league and additional context behind stories, managers, and players whom I’ve heard of before, but didn’t know the history of.Would highly recommend this book! Even for people who don’t follow the league closely, or at all!
Reviewer: Robert S. (Bob) Delaney
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fascinating soccer business tale
Review: As a major soccer (football) fan, I found much to like about The Club. The story of how England’s Premier League came about and became the dominating force in world soccer is a tale of ambition, greed, egos, and innovation. These authors know the territory and uncover aspects of the Premier League story I did not know. Recommended reading for those interested in the business side of soccer.
Reviewer: abcerra
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: if you are into…
Review: …football, business, empires or all the above, you’ll enjoy it. An easy reading, full of anecdotes and memories, that will give you a different time perspective on the Premier League
Reviewer: pooja
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: One of the best written books
Review: This is a fantastic place to start if you’re interested in football/the premier league. It reads like fiction, but is very well researched and written. It keeps you interested, laughing and most importantly tells the tale of how we got here in a very clear and gripping manner.
Reviewer: Sharief Faraidooni
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I have enjoyed this book. Fast and intriguing read. I enjoyed the many inside stories that came in the book and I finally understood how the PL became the biggest and richest league in the world. The book is also kind of sad as the world of football is changing and being monetized. Gone are the days that you support a club because of its history and achievements and hello to the days where the rich get even ridiculously more richer.Fun book to read.
Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: My only quibble about the book is a throwaway comment about the pre-Sky t.v. money being shared equally between the 92 clubs, with Man Utd receiving the same as Macclesfield.A little bit of research would have found that Macclesfield didn’t enter the Football league until 1997. I knew this, and I’d imagine a lot of other football fan’s did too. But then again, football for many doesn’t exist outside the Premier league.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Wonderfully executed. Such beautiful insights into the premier league for a premier league fan. Recommending for all the EPL fans to go and give this book a read.
Reviewer: Christian Merschinger
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: The book is informative and – like the subject of the book – a good entertainment in itself. Great read for anyone interested in football (soccer), globalization and the ‘love match’ between Football and TV.There are many funny passages, perhaps even more so for non native speakers like me, here just one example:”On the pitch, Gullit’s comically superior standard was obvious. From his position behind the defence, he would bring down long balls on his chest and then volley a pass out to this fullbacks just to hear the crowd gasp. (The more traditional English approach in that situation would have been to hammer the ball into the next parliamentary constituency) But when he tried to build Chelsea’s play from the back in the Dutch style he’d always known, Gullit ran into trouble: he’d pass the ball to his fellow defenders only to find that they didn’t want the damn thing…. . (p. 83).
Reviewer: Santiago R.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Es un gran libro. Pero al no hablar inglés de forma nativa me ha costado entender el vocabulario cerrado.
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