World Cup Fever

The story of how football transformed the world, told through nine World Cups - by one of our most talented football writers

The ultimate book for anyone who loves football, and plenty who don't ... Unmissable

Kuper is one of the best sportswriters in the English language today

Kuper is an excellent guide... his book is filled with memorable vignettes

Charming and amusing

Kuper keeps the pages turning ... shines a light on the geopolitical happenings around each tournament

An essential warm-up for making sense of the extraordinary World Cup to come ... [Kuper] is a wry and sharp-eyed guide to the high-camp theatre of Fifa politics and the everyday carnival of fans on city streets

I love this book. An extraordinary work of nonfiction; it's personal, global - a remarkable book

A delightful memoir, travelogue, and journal, Simon Kuper's World Cup Fever is a wry and sharp-eyed account of the world's now biggest public ritual. A brilliant evocation of the joy of the football carnival and the absurdities of the global spectacle, it remains alert to the game's ever closer pact with money and power. It is an essential companion to the tournament, for it allows us to look at the sun and not be blinded

A series of wise, wry and revealing reflections on football's greatest tournament and what it tells us about the world. Football Against the Enemy was one the three books that effectively invented modern football writing, and Kuper continues to lead the genre.

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An instant classic

Simply unmissable

A masterclass on football

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An Arsène Wenger of a book - more thoughtful than most of its rivals and, by football standards, positively intellectual.

Simon Kuper is an author and Financial Times journalist, born in Uganda and raised around the world. An Oxford graduate, he later attended Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar. He has written for the Guardian, Observer, and The Times and is also the author of Chums, The Happy Traitor, Football Against the Enemy and Barça. He lives in Paris with his family.