How to Fix Modern Football
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Shortlisted for Sports Entertainment Book of the Year in the Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2021
With diving players, abusive fans, feckless agents and the dreaded VAR, football has taken a wrong turn. Now, Chris Sutton, the nation’s most forthright football pundit, takes an un?ltered look at 25 aspects of the modern game that need to be changed right away – and offers practical and, at times, controversial solutions.
From the standard of referees to the lunacy of the managerial merry-go-round, from shameful racist abuse to exploitative ticket prices and the shocking treatments of ex-players with dementia, How to Fix Modern Football leaves no stone unturned in.
As a former top-level player, Chris knows the game inside out. Now observing from the commentator’s perch, his perspective is shot through with passion, humour and occasionally a little anger.
Sutton is a man on a mission, determined to get under the skin of the game he loves and to call out exactly what’s going wrong.
Shortlisted for Sports Entertainment Book of the Year in the Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2021
‘A manifesto to cure modern football’s cornucopia of ills.’ – i paper
‘A brilliant book.’ – Ian Wright
With diving players, abusive fans, feckless agents and the dreaded VAR, football has taken a wrong turn. Now, Chris Sutton, the nation’s most forthright football pundit, takes an un?ltered look at 25 aspects of the modern game that need to be changed right away – and offers practical and, at times, controversial solutions.
From the standard of referees to the lunacy of the managerial merry-go-round, from shameful racist abuse to exploitative ticket prices and the shocking treatments of ex-players with dementia, How to Fix Modern Football leaves no stone unturned in.
As a former top-level player, Chris knows the game inside out. Now observing from the commentator’s perch, his perspective is shot through with passion, humour and occasionally a little anger.
Sutton is a man on a mission, determined to get under the skin of the game he loves and to call out exactly what’s going wrong.
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