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The 'Good Chaps' theory holds that those who rise to power in the UK can be trusted to follow the rules and do the right thing. They're good chaps, after all. Yet Britain appears to have been taken over by bad chaps, and politics is awash with financial scandals, donors who have practically bought shares in political parties, and a shameless contempt for the rules.Simon Kuper, author of the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller Chums, exposes how corruption took control of public life, and asks: how can we get politicians to behave like good chaps again?

An entertaining and openhearted tale of a naïf eventually getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel society - at least a little.When Simon Kuper left London for Paris in his early thirties, he wasn't planning to make a permanent move. Paris, however, had otherplans. Kuper has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, seen his American wife through life-threatening cancer, taken his children to countless football matches on freezing Saturday mornings in the city's notorious banlieues, and in 2015 lived through two terrorist attacks on their neighborhood. Over two decades of becoming something of a cantankerous Parisian himself, Kuper has watched the city change.This century, it has globalized, gentrified, and been shocked into realizing its role as the crucible of civilizational conflict. Sometimes it's a multicultural paradise, and sometimes it isn't. This decade, Parisians have lived through a sequence of terrorist attacks, record floods and heatwaves, the burning of Notre Dame, the storming of the city by gilets jaunes, and then the pandemic. Now, as the Olympics come to town, France is busy executing the "Grand Paris" the most serious attempt yet to knit together the bejewelled city with its neglected suburbs.This is a captivating memoir of the Paris of today, without the Parisian clichés.

Gdyby Nicolas Anelka przeczytał Futbonomię, to Chelsea, a nie Manchester United, zwyciężyłaby w finale Ligi Mistrzów w 2008 roku. Gdyby trenerzy wiedzieli, ile strzałów z dystansu w Premier League znajduje drogę do siatki, pewnie by ich zakazali. Gdyby biznesmeni sięgnęli po tę pozycję, nigdy nie kupiliby klubu piłkarskiego, bo zwyczajnie nie da się na nim zarobić Wydaje się, że o współczesnym futbolu rozkładanym codziennie na czynniki pierwsze wiemy wszystko. Simon Kuper ze Stefanem Szymańskim udowadniają, że to tylko pozory. Spoglądając na piłkę z perspektyw, o których wcześniej nikt nawet nie pomyślał, dochodzą do rewolucyjnych wniosków. Dlaczego skauci najczęściej wybierają blondynów? Co sprawiło, że Olympique Lyon przestał wygrywać? Dlaczego wkrótce drużyny z Londynu, Moskwy i Paryża zaczną dominować w Lidze Mistrzów? Nieważne, czy jesteś właścicielem, trenerem, skautem, sędzią czy po prostu zwykłym kibicem musisz sięgnąć po tę książkę. Zwłaszcza że w nowym wydaniu znajdziesz dodatkowy rozdział m.in. o wpływie smartfona na światowy futbol. Dzięki niej spojrzysz na futbol z zupełnie nowej strony.

„Początkowo zamierzałem opisać drogę Barçy na sam szczyt, co zresztą zrobiłem, ale na koniec musiałem napisać również o jej schyłku i upadku.” Barça to nie tylko popularny klub sportowy, ale także wpływowa organizacja globalna z setkami milionów obserwujących i czterema milionami odwiedzających Camp Nou rocznie. W ciągu ostatnich 30 lat Barcelona przeszła metamorfozę z lokalnego zespołu w globalnego giganta, stając się wzorem doskonałości sportowej. Simon Kuper szczegółowo opisuje tę przemianę, omawiając organizację klubu oraz pracę trenerów, sztabu medycznego, analityków i dietetyków, którzy zrewolucjonizowali środowisko sportowe. Autor analizuje również wpływ legend klubu, Johana Cruyffa i Lionela Messiego, oraz obecne zagrożenia dla pozycji Barcelony. Kuper, mając unikalny dostęp do klubu, przedstawia jego najnowsze sukcesy i problemy, tworząc portret Barcelony jako fenomenu społecznego, kulturowego i politycznego. Jego praca pozwala czytelnikom zajrzeć za kulisy klubu, odkrywając nieznane dotąd aspekty i zadając nowe pytania. To kronika i analiza epoki w historii futbolu, która może już nigdy się nie powtórzyć.

Dies ist die Geschichte, wie der FC Barcelona zum erfolgreichsten Fußballverein der Welt wurde - und wie diese Position nun auf dem Spiel steht. Mit 250 Millionen Fans in den sozialen Medien und vier Millionen Besuchern im Camp-Nou-Stadion pro Jahr ist es kein Wunder, dass das Vereinsmotto "Mas que un club“lautet. Aber das war nicht immer so. Simon Kuper hat für sein preisgekröntes Buch recherchiert, wie in den letzten 30 Jahren aus einem katalanischen Fußballverein eine globale Marke und soziales, kulturelles und politisches Phänomen wurde. Er beschreibt die Arbeit der Trainer, Mediziner, Datenanalysten und Ernährungswissenschaftler, die die Sportwelt revolutioniert haben. Und er untersucht den überragenden Einfluss der beiden größten Legenden des Vereins, Johan Cruyff und Lionel Messi. Hierfür erhielt er beispiellosen Zugang hinter die Kulissen des Klubs und zu den Menschen, die dort arbeiten.

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel Hannan, Jacob Rees-Mogg: Oxford has produced most of the prominent Conservative politicians of our time. The university newspapers of thirty years ago are full of recognisable names in news stories, photos of social events, and Bullingdon Club reports. Many walked straight out of the world of student debates onto the national stage. Unfortunately, they brought their university politics with them.Eleven of the fifteen postwar British prime ministers went to Oxford. This narrowest of talent pools has shaped the modern country. In Chums, Simon Kuper traces how the rarefied and privileged atmosphere of Oxford University - and the friendships and worldviews it created - helped give us today's Britain, including Brexit.

With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper tells the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful club in the world--and how that era is now ending FC Barcelona is not just the world's highest grossing sports club, it is simply one of the most influential organizations on the planet. At last count, it had approximately 214 million social media followers, more than any other sports club except Real Madrid CF--and by one earlier measure, more than all thirty-two NFL teams combined. It has more in common with multinational megacompanies like Netflix or small nation-states than it does with most soccer teams. No wonder its motto is "More than a club." But it was not always so. In the past three decades, Barcelona went from a regional team to a global powerhouse, becoming a model of sustained excellence and beautiful soccer, and a consistent winner of championships. Simon Kuper unravels exactly how this transformation took place, paying special attention to the club's two biggest stars, Johan Cruyff and Lionel Messi, who is arguably the greatest soccer player of all time. Messi joined Bar�a at age thirteen and, more than anyone, has been the engine and standard-bearer of Barcelona's glory. But his era is coming to an end--and with it, a once-in-a-lifetime golden run. This book charts Bar�a's rise and fall.Like many world-beating organizations, FC Barcelona closely guards its secrets, granting few outsiders access to the Camp Nou, its legendary home stadium. But after decades of writing about the sport and the club, Kuper was given access to the inner sanctum and the people behind the scenes who strive daily to keep Barcelona at the top. Erudite, personal, and capturing all the latest upheavals, his portrait of this incredible institution goes beyond soccer to understand FC Barcelona as a unique social, cultural, and political phenomenon.

This book, originally published in Great Britain, delves into the life of a notable figure known as "the happy traitor." It explores themes of betrayal, loyalty, and the complexities of personal and political allegiances. Through engaging narrative and historical context, the author sheds light on the motivations and consequences of choices made by individuals in tumultuous times, offering readers a thought-provoking perspective on trust and treachery in a world of shifting loyalties.

A deeply human read, wonderfully written, on the foibles of a fascinating, flawed, treacherous, and somewhat likable character. Those betrayed were not innocent; they were no better nor worse than the narrator. George Blake, the last Cold War spy, served as a Senior Officer in British Intelligence while acting as a double agent for the Soviet Union, leading to devastating consequences for Britain. Despite his actions, he remained largely unknown and unrepentant. In 1961, Blake received a forty-two-year prison sentence for betraying Western operations to the KGB, the longest espionage sentence in British history. On the surface, Blake appeared charming and intelligent, a seemingly committed patriot. However, he was also a ruthlessly efficient mole and a key player in the notorious 'Berlin Tunnel' operation. This illuminating biography traces Blake's journey from his beginnings as a teenage courier for the Dutch underground during World War II to his sensational escape from Wormwood Scrubs, which inspired a Hitchcock screenplay. Through personal interviews, extensive research, and unique access to Stasi records, journalist Simon Kuper uncovers Blake's true identity, his capabilities, and the motivations behind his actions.

Imagine the club not as a theatre of dreams but as a workplace. What is office life like day to day? Who are the people who run the club? How much power do they actually have over the players? What should the players eat, and how can you persuade them to eat it? From the author of bestselling Soccernomics comes a book that will reshape our understanding of football and the world's most talked-about club: FC Barcelona. After 30 years of unprecedented access, this book takes the reader behind closed doors into the changing room, the training ground and the boardroom to reveal the real stories behind Barca's rise to global sports superpower - and its recent fall from grace. It includes interviews with the towering personalities responsible for transforming Barca including Johan Cruyff and Pep Guardiola. It details the work of coaches, medics, data analysts and nutritionists, as well as extraordinary players like Lionel Messi, in building not just a club but a football philosophy. It analyses the unique structure of Barca from the Catalan power politics at the top, the cutting-edge sports science hub it has created and its legendary youth academy known as La Masia. This is truly a book decades in the making, which establishes how an army of coaches, medics, data analysts and nutritionists have built the foundations for one of the outstanding successes of the modern game.