The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

A good read for Premier League beginners

Wonderfully executed. Such beautiful insights into the premier league for a premier league fan. Recommending for all the EPL fans to go and give this book a read.

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.

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!

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.