Simon Kuper
Simon Kuper
Simon Kuperis a British author. He writes about sports "from an anthropologic perspective."...
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth15 October 1969
country expected high opinion people
People are enormously disappointed because if there's one country that really expected to be going and has a high opinion of its own qualities, it's Holland.
champions due dutch european last league modern next overload partly playing top week
It's partly due to the overload on modern players, ... All the Dutch are playing in the Champions League or in top European leagues. So it's last week Barcelona, this week Dublin, next week Milan. It's just not that exciting.
soccer country caring
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.
football oil stupidity
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.
player support world
I remember World Cups in 1982 and 1986 when we weren't there and we'd support Belgium or Denmark, .. They had some players who played in Holland and they were a bit like the Dutch.
soccer football taken
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 couldn't be better spent?