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Game Changer: How The English Premier League Came To Dominate The World
Game Changer
- GenresSportsSoccerNonfiction
272 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2012
About the author
Mihir Bose
47 books16 followersAbout Mihir Bose
Award-winning journalist and author Mihir Bose writes and broadcasts on social and historical issues and sport for outlets including the BBC, the Guardian, Financial Times, Evening Standard and Irish Times.
He has written more than fifty books on sport, including football and cricket, and history, such as Bollywood, India and the extraordinary WW2 quintuple agent Silver. The subjects of his many biographies include Michael Grade, Moeen Ali and the Indian nationalist Subhas Bose (no relation).
Mihir was the BBC’s first sports editor and first non-white editor. He was chief sports news correspondent at the Daily Telegraph and worked for the Sunday Times for 20 years.
His honorary doctorate from Loughborough University was awarded for his outstanding contribution to journalism and the promotion of equality. Mihir is a member of the English Heritage Blue Plaques Panel and former chairman of the Reform Club. He and his wife Caroline live in London. He has a daughter, Indira.
Award-winning journalist and author Mihir Bose writes and broadcasts on social and historical issues and sport for outlets including the BBC, the Guardian, Financial Times, Evening Standard and Irish Times.
He has written more than fifty books on sport, including football and cricket, and history, such as Bollywood, India and the extraordinary WW2 quintuple agent Silver. The subjects of his many biographies include Michael Grade, Moeen Ali and the Indian nationalist Subhas Bose (no relation).
Mihir was the BBC’s first sports editor and first non-white editor. He was chief sports news correspondent at the Daily Telegraph and worked for the Sunday Times for 20 years.
His honorary doctorate from Loughborough University was awarded for his outstanding contribution to journalism and the promotion of equality. Mihir is a member of the English Heritage Blue Plaques Panel and former chairman of the Reform Club. He and his wife Caroline live in London. He has a daughter, Indira.
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December 11, 2014
Mihir Bose is a terrific investigator, resourceful, thorough and intrepid. The amount of work he's put into uncovering the facts and organizing the date is just astonishing. I only wish his writing skills were up to that standard. Beyond even the silly mistakes that appear more a result of slapdash composition than anything else, the chapters which involve large numbers of people -- with the chapters on satellite rights and the formation of the league being particularly notable for this -- are excruciatingly tedious and unnecessarily complicated reads. Not everyone can write a sports book as consistently engrossing as Moneyball, but a more demanding editor would have given us a superlative book, instead of this one, that alternately delights and drags, educates and irritates. Terrific if you're looking to learn more about the English Premiere League but of little appeal to the casual reader.
May 9, 2013
This book is so worthy.
Bose is encyclodepic but dry and not dry as in wit but dry in tone.
You will learn something but you mayy not care, Bose doesnt make you want to read like say David Conn but he covers a lot of areas. Where this book seems to fail for me is that Bose finds detail interesting which on the face of it is not a bad thing but its detail on detail on detail, he cant seem to get to the point without emphasising what level of reasearch he has done.
Its a good important thing but its not interesting to the general reader or rather it is but you have to mine so much, too much information that for most people is too much to care about. Its not broad picture and that is its flaw.
Bose is encyclodepic but dry and not dry as in wit but dry in tone.
You will learn something but you mayy not care, Bose doesnt make you want to read like say David Conn but he covers a lot of areas. Where this book seems to fail for me is that Bose finds detail interesting which on the face of it is not a bad thing but its detail on detail on detail, he cant seem to get to the point without emphasising what level of reasearch he has done.
Its a good important thing but its not interesting to the general reader or rather it is but you have to mine so much, too much information that for most people is too much to care about. Its not broad picture and that is its flaw.
February 20, 2022
Woof.......Let me defend this by saying I do love informational books particularly on things I enjoy. This however was a little much for me. There were too many times that the author would go into a detailed analysis in one chapter that he had already covered in depth in a previous chapter. It is almost as if he wrote the book thinking that people would find a random chapter on the internet and read it separate from the book.
On the plus side some of the information was very interesting when it wasn't beaten into the ground. I love hearing about the behind the scenes dealings as well as the bickering that went on between people with opposing ideas. I would recommend parts of this book to fans of the Premier League but I would not give it a ringing endorsement.
On the plus side some of the information was very interesting when it wasn't beaten into the ground. I love hearing about the behind the scenes dealings as well as the bickering that went on between people with opposing ideas. I would recommend parts of this book to fans of the Premier League but I would not give it a ringing endorsement.
February 4, 2013
Fascinating insight into the world of the Premier League. Bose searches right back to the history of the foundations, before blasting into the behind-the-scenes aspect as the League continues to grow. If you're expecting a nice trip down Memory Lane of memorable moments from games gone by, this one isn't for you, but if you're after a book all about how the League came about, how it grew and the implications of that, this is going to be one of the best books you've ever read.
December 23, 2012
This a good read regarding the way football has changed in this country since the premier league has been with us. well worth the £1.50 kindle version. if you are a long term football fan you may want to give it a try
May 31, 2014
Mixed content
For a new convert to following the Premier League, this book was very helpful in understanding how the Premier League came.to be the behemoth it is today. But often this book gets into details that only seem relevant if you had a deep knowledge of it.
For a new convert to following the Premier League, this book was very helpful in understanding how the Premier League came.to be the behemoth it is today. But often this book gets into details that only seem relevant if you had a deep knowledge of it.
September 20, 2014
Would have enjoyed the book far more had I been British and born knowing about each of the famous players, notorious riots, types of football championships and more. Very detailed but assumes a great deal of knowledge. Very frustrating.
September 16, 2014
a little tedious, but it was a good read about the business of sports outside of the US
July 5, 2018
Very interesting read..
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