World Cup Fever

A delightful memoir, travelogue, and journal, Simon Kuper’s World Cup Fever is a wry and sharp-eyed account of the world’s now biggest public ritual. A brilliant evocation of the joy of the football carnival and the absurdities of the global spectacle, it remains alert to the game’s ever closer pact with money and power. It is an essential companion to the tournament, for it allows us to look at the sun and not be blinded – David Goldblatt, author * The Ball is Round *A series of wise, wry and revealing reflections on football’s greatest tournament and what it tells us about the world. Football Against the Enemy was one the three books that effectively invented modern football writing, and Kuper continues to lead the genre. – Jonathan Wilson, author * Inverting the Pyramid *Praise for Barça: A masterfully written history of the world’s greatest football club – Gary LinekerAn instant classic – Bill BufordSimply unmissable – Amy RaphaelA masterclass on football – John CarlinPraise for Soccernomics: Magnificent * Guardian *An Arsène Wenger of a book - more thoughtful than most of its rivals and, by football standards, positively intellectual. * The Times *

Simon Kuper is an author and Financial Times journalist, born in Uganda and raised around the world. An Oxford graduate, he later attended Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar. He has written for the Guardian, Observer, and The Times and is also the author of Chums, The Happy Traitor, Football Against the Enemy and Barça. He lives in Paris with his family.