Top 6 Simon Kuper Quotes (2025 Update)

Simon Kuper Quote: “Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.”

1. “Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.”

Simon Kuper Quote: “Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.”

2. “Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.”

3. “It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.”

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4. “Football is not merely a small business, it’s also a bad one. 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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5. “Chelsea’s players, coaches and agents are now football’s wealthiest millionaires. Surely the billions taken from the Russian people by an oligarch in questionable privatisations couldn’t be better spent?”

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6. “You’d never last in South America. Fans take their radios to the stadium so they can think what the commentators think.”

— Simon Kuper

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