In the mail: Soccernomics

From a friend, I just received Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski, and I plan on reading it over the holidays. From what I've heard about it, it appears to be a soccer-specific analogue of Michael Lewis' Moneyball. The difference is that Kuper and Szymanski are looking at multiple issues in the soccer world at large, while Lewis is focusing on a single team and using it to examine broader issues.

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