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Simon Kuper
@KuperSimon
@FT writer. Now increasingly at @simonkuper.bsky.social. Latest books: World Cup Fever, and my memoir of modern Paris, Impossible City
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    Simon Kuper
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    Aug 26, 2025
    Very chuffed to get my hands on a copy of my book World Cup Fever - a story of the tournament told through my own nine World Cups. It's out in English and Dutch in early October, but you can already preorder it, e.g. here waterstones.com/book/world-cup…
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    Simon Kuper
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    Nov 6, 2024
    Paris Saint-Germain fans just unfurled this giant banner before tonight's PSG-Atlético Madrid match
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    Simon Kuper
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    Apr 19, 2020
    Massively important - all countries should do likewise
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    Simon Kuper
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    Mar 11, 2022
    Short thread: it's quite right that the UK has sanctioned Roman Abramovich and deprived him of control of Chelsea. English football has suddenly turned against him. But: all this is just hypocrisy as long as the English game doesn't go after far more culpable club owners //
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    Simon Kuper
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    Jul 2, 2022
    1. The fact that Manchester United are largely targeting Ten Hag's favourite players from the Dutch league (F de Jong, Timber, Lisandro Martínez + Malacia whom he considered buying for Ajax) suggests that the club doesn't have a scouting system of its own that it takes seriously
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    Simon Kuper
    @KuperSimon
    Jan 3, 2025
    I'm not here to advocate for Starmer or Labour, but this from the @FT counters the nonsense that Musk and Ackman are spreading about a country that they know nothing about. Source here: on.ft.com/421zL2S
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    Simon Kuper
    @KuperSimon
    Oct 23, 2017
    Michael Bloomberg: “I think Brexit is the single stupidest thing any country’s ever done, until we Trumped them” #CityLabParis
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    Simon Kuper
    @KuperSimon
    Apr 20, 2021
    1. We say in Soccernomics: "Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business."
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    Jonathan Northcroft
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    Apr 20, 2021
    Martin Jol always said "nothing in football is what it seems". What he meant was that behind the glitz, the game was a lot more amateurish than you could imagine. What a clown show this $4.2bn Super League of the "world's greatest clubs" has turned out to be.
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    Simon Kuper
    @KuperSimon
    Feb 8, 2019
    As a young journo in 1995 I interviewed Kate Hoey about sport. I came away quite shaken by how stupid she was. I had thought till then that that would be a bar to even modest career success
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    Guy Verhofstadt
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    Feb 8, 2019
    Hi @KateHoeyMP, thanks for the feedback. Actually, I was elected by my constituents with over 500k votes. Imagine an elected MP campaigning on Europe, not knowing that MEPs are elected?
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    Simon Kuper
    @KuperSimon
    Jun 27, 2021
    Eden Hazard has broken an ankle three times. Every time he gets the ball, the Portugese target his ankles, having already put Kevin De Bruyne out of the game. This was the way great players were treated before the 1990s. Such a shame #BELPOR
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    Simon Kuper
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    May 25, 2019
    This is best 2-minute analysis of UK politics I’ve ever heard
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    Islander
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    May 25, 2019
    Rory Stewart's take-down of "Bertie Wooster politics" is worth watching.
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    Simon Kuper
    @KuperSimon
    Apr 20, 2023
    Even many senior Brexiteers now understand, quietly, that Brexit failed. Lots of them will probably exit government next year and never return. One day Brexit will be the first line in their obits. So how do the guilty men and women live with that? Me @FT
    How Brexiters live their truth (badly)
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    Simon Kuper
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    Dec 13, 2020
    And on the subject of Brexit, this is the best sport ever and if the Irish had colonised the world, nobody would ever have heard of football
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    The GAA
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    Dec 13, 2020
    Absolutely incredible goalkeeping from @WaterfordGAA's Stephen O'Keeffe as he makes two top class saves to deny Limerick an early goal!
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    Simon Kuper
    @KuperSimon
    Nov 4, 2020
    After one minute we were leading, solidly. Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise German goals were counted. VERY STRANGE, and the bookmakers got it completely & historically wrong!