Daily Telegraph "If you're a football fan, I'll save you some time: read this book ... compulsive reading ... thoroughly convincing."----------------------- Observer "Szymanksi has recently published the best introduction to sports economics ... while Kuper is probably the smartest of the new generation of super-smart sportswriters ... fascinating stories."----------------------------- Metro "[Kuper and Szymanski] basically trash every cliché about football you ever held to be true. It's bravura stuff … the study of managers buying players and building a club is one you’ll feel like photocopying and sending to your team's chairman"----------------------- Paddy Harverson, former communications director of Manchester United, Financial Times "Demolishes ... many soccer shibboleths ... well argued, too. Szymanski, an economist, knows his stuff, and Kuper, a born contrarian and FT sports writer, is incapable of cliché ... great stories and previously unknown nuggets."------------------------------ Sport Magazine "One for the thinkers"