I just found this post, The Ultimate Guide To Football Books. I’m glad I’ve only read two and a half of these – gives me something to shoot for. The entry is nearly a year old, but the comments stretch through 21-Jul of this year.

Hopefully the comments provide even more books, along with thoughts on the given list.

Also, I like the title of the post is

The Ultimate Guide To Football Books

but the title of the page is

Ultimate guide to the best soccer books

I wonder how the SEO folks feel about this – can/do they make the connection between football and soccer?

In a recent article in Foreign Policy, Simon Kuper argues that globalization has dampened the international intensity from the World Cup.  The games are no longer fueled with political, economic, or social unrest, rather they are simply pitting sometimes boring styles against even more boring styles.

It seems that the main geopolitical significance of the World Cup now lies in the logistics of organizing it. The soccer is just for fun (although in truth most of the games were dull). The World Cup no longer means much. And that’s a relief.

Tough to argue that point in 2010.  
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