Why England Lose…

July 15, 2009 1:41 pm

…in football, that is, not cricket. If you want to find out, economist Stefan Szymanski and the FT’s excellent sports columnist Simon Kuper explain here:

As another season comes around minds turn to why England always lose the games that matter, how big a club Newcastle really are and whether John Terry will ever score in a penalty shoot-out. All these questions and more will be answered by the authors of the superlative Why England Lose Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski at our eve of season party on Thursday 6 August.

The event is on the City Road in London, details here. I read an earlier draft of the book and enjoyed it a lot: a well-written, statistically-driven yet somehow very funny analysis of pretty much everything in football.

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