Speed reading – pitch perfect

19 February 2025, The Tablet

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In The Premier: Big Business and Great Football (Pitch, £14.99; Tablet price £13.49), the Anglo-Spanish journalist Jimmy Burns ponders the alchemy of the Premier League

Who Owns Football? The Changing Face of Club Ownership (Bloomsbury Sport, £18.99; Tablet price £17.09) brings an unsparing eye to one of those parts. Nick Miller of the sports website The Athletic has met the people and smelt the money reinventing the clubs once owned by successful local wallpaper manufacturers and the like.

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