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Simon Kuper

Simon Kuper is one of the world’s foremost writers on football and a columnist with The Financial Times. His books include, among others, Football Against the Enemy; Soccernomics; The Football Men; and Barça: The Inside Story of the World’s Greatest Football Club

Cover Stories
The Cup of Convergence

Why Europe dominates

18 November 2022
The Last Glory
FIFA World Cup 2018
The Last Glory

A game in history and the tradition of defeat in Russia

07 June 2018
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Voices
Where history is a penalty

Luck apart, there is something majestic about penalty shootouts, and the Cup has a habit of making fools of forecasters, Pele included

05 June 2014