Richer Than God
Manchester City, Modern Football and Growing Up
$32.84
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2013
Summary
Richer Than God is an authoritative, emotional, provocative account of Manchester City’s takeover by Sheikh Mansour, culminating in their remarkable last minute Premier League title victory in May 2012.
By placing the club’s extraordinary current rise in the wider context of its patchy modern history, this is also the story of English football’s transformation - from the battlegrounds of the 1980s to today’s moneyed, seated, global entertainment. Conn is led to question the very natur…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857384881 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857384880 |
| Author: | David Conn |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2013 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 36mm |
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‘A must read’ Tony Evans, The Times.
‘The best football book I have read for a long time’ Sam Wallace, Independent. * Independent *
‘Superb. Nick Hornby meets Michael Crick’ Rob Draper, Mail on Sunday. * Mail on Sunday *
‘A must read’ Tony Evans, The Times. * The Times *
About The Author
David Conn
David Conn is an award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster, widely regarded as the foremost investigative writer in football. He writes for the Guardian and was the 2010 Sports News Reporter of the Year. He has three times been named Football Writer of the Year by the Football Supporters’ Federation for his investigative work. He lives near Harrogate, in North Yorkshire.
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