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Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
1 Driving with a Dashboard: In Search of New Truths about Football
SECTION I: THE CLUBS: RACISM, STUPIDITY, BAD TRANSFERS, CAPITAL CITIES, AND WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THAT PENALTY SHOOTOUT IN MOSCOW
2 Gentlemen Prefer Blonds: How to Avoid Silly Mistakes in the Transfer Market
3 The Worst Business in the World: Why Football Clubs Don’t (and Shouldn’t) Make Money
4 Safer than the Bank of England: Why Football Clubs Almost Never Disappear
5 In Praise of Sugar Daddies: Why ‘Financial Fair Play’ is Bad for Football
6 Need Not Apply: Does English Football Discriminate Against Black People?
7 Do Managers Matter? The Cult of the White Messiah
8 The Economist’s Fear of the Penalty Kick: Are Penalties Cosmically Unfair, or Only if You Are Nicolas Anelka?
9 The Secret of Claude Makelele: How ‘Match Data’ Are Changing the Game on the Pitch
10 The Suburban Newsagent’s: City Sizes and Football Prizes
11 Unfair and Unbalanced: Are Manchester United Really a Problem?
SECTION II: THE FANS: LOYALTY, SUICIDES, HAPPINESS, AND THE COUNTRY WITH THE BEST SUPPORTERS
12 The Country that Loves Football Most
13 Are Football Fans Polygamists? A Critique of the Hornby Model of Fandom
14 Fans’ Suicide Notes: Do People Jump off Buildings when Their Teams Lose?
15 Happiness: Why Hosting World Cups Is Good for You
SECTION III: THE COUNTRIES: RICH AND POOR, TOM THUMB, SPAIN, GHIDDINK, SADDAM, AND THE CHAMPIONS OF THE FUTURE
16 Why England Lose
17 The Curse of Poverty: Why Poor Countries Are Poor at Sport
18 Tom Thumb: The Best Little Football Country on Earth
19 Made in Amsterdam: The Rise of Spain and the Triumph of European Knowledge Networks
20 Core to Periphery: The Future Map of Global Football
Afterword: The Best of Times
Acknowledgements
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