This week’s guest is author and Financial Times columnist Simon Kuper. Simon has a weekly column in the FT that goes beyond just sport, but he has authored several outstanding books on football including _Football Against the Enemy, The Football Men, _and _Soccernomics. _
Simon shares a couple of the stories behind Football Against the Enemy with us, and explains why he railed against the “stupid” environment of the football beat. We also talk about footballers, how they are portrayed and discussed differently by the media in different countries, why players are necessarily detached from supporters...and why it’s supporters’ fault.
He also discusses a couple of the things he and Stefan Szymanski got wrong in the first edition of _Soccernomics. _
Simon’s picks were: Beyond the Boundary _by CLR James; _Only a Game? _By Eamon Dunphy; and “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu”, by John Updike for the _New Yorker
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