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The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
Book · 2018
The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
Grown-upsBest for parents & coaches★ 4.3
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Two Wall Street Journal reporters trace how a breakaway by England's biggest clubs in 1992 turned into the richest league in sport, through television deals, foreign owners and the arrival of players nobody in England had heard of. The same authors later wrote the Messi and Ronaldo book.
Why we picked it
It explains why the sport your kid plays on Saturday is organised the way it is, and where the money in it actually comes from.
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