'The Football Men' by Simon Kuper

Simon Kuper's 1994 book 'Football Against the Enemy' hit just the right note in English-language football literature just at the time the English game was beginning to open up to the world.

The sports-travelogue cum cultural study tapped into a widespread desire for intelligent and wide-ranging football writing that had yet to be properly satisfied by publishers.

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