The Club

This book is well written and fascinating. It covers so many different aspects of how the league changed and grew. It is a mixture of a business book and interesting biography. Highly recommended!

...football, business, empires or all the above, you'll enjoy it. An easy reading, full of anecdotes and memories, that will give you a different time perspective on the Premier League

I never thought a non-fiction book could be a page turner but this one is it. I blew through it in under one week which is pretty fast for me! As an American who is relatively new to European soccer/football, this book really gave me a lot of insight into the Premier League. Have you ever looked at the list of Prem champions and wondered how and why Blackburn Rovers snuck their way onto that list? This book goes over a lot of interesting stories like that. It’s non-fiction but reads like a novel. I highly recommend it.

Honestly the best book I've read in a while. I'm new to soccer and I couldn't put it down. I recommend this book to anyone, soccer fan or not. I didn't want it to end it was so good. I'm surprised it hasn't been turned into a movie or TV series yet.

I'm a casual EPL fan at best, but really enjoyed the history and the way the authors served the stories together.

English football used to be drunk fans beating each other up in stadiums made of wood and chicken wire. Today it's corporate and very profitable. Book explains how the sport built US-style stadiums and monetized everything possible. US football is #1 in only one country, while soccer-football is supreme in 150-plus. TV rights go for zillions! This is both a sports and business book, showing how upgrading facilities and looking for every possible revenue source can increase profits.

This is a fantastic place to start if you're interested in football/the premier league. It reads like fiction, but is very well researched and written. It keeps you interested, laughing and most importantly tells the tale of how we got here in a very clear and gripping manner.

I have been working in this incredible industry for the last five years. In order to get updated about best practices and trends, I try to read every book related to football management. Until now "The ball does not go in by chance" (Soriano) and "Soccernomics" were the holy grail for me. Until the moment I started to read "The Club", which has exact quantities of everything we expect for (novel, real facts, historical football matches, trends in the industry, etc.). Without any doubt, I will buy more copies in order to share with my friends inside and outside the industry. Thanks to the authors for such a wonderful book! Gustavo

I have enjoyed this book. Fast and intriguing read. I enjoyed the many inside stories that came in the book and I finally understood how the PL became the biggest and richest league in the world. The book is also kind of sad as the world of football is changing and being monetized. Gone are the days that you support a club because of its history and achievements and hello to the days where the rich get even ridiculously more richer. Fun book to read.

A good read for Premier League beginners

The book is informative and - like the subject of the book - a good entertainment in itself. Great read for anyone interested in football (soccer), globalization and the 'love match' between Football and TV. There are many funny passages, perhaps even more so for non native speakers like me, here just one example: "On the pitch, Gullit's comically superior standard was obvious. From his position behind the defence, he would bring down long balls on his chest and then volley a pass out to this fullbacks just to hear the crowd gasp. (The more traditional English approach in that situation would have been to hammer the ball into the next parliamentary constituency) But when he tried to build Chelsea's play from the back in the Dutch style he'd always known, Gullit ran into trouble: he'd pass the ball to his fellow defenders only to find that they didn't want the damn thing.... . (p. 83).

Es un gran libro. Pero al no hablar inglés de forma nativa me ha costado entender el vocabulario cerrado.

Entertaining history of the Premier League from its inception to summer 2019 that raises some interesting questions about where English football goes next. Great insight.