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Title: The Simplest Game: The Intelligent Fan's Guide to the World of Soccer by Paul Gardner ISBN: 0-02-860401-6 Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company. Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (14 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Must-read for soccer fans
Comment: Simply put (pun intended), this is a must-read for soccer fans. It's basically the history of soccer condensed into one book. The World Cups, the great players, the great teams, the controversies. If you are a soccer fan but don't know much about the history of the game, pick up this book.

Rating: 5
Summary: THE Soccer Primer for an intelligent fan
Comment: Gardner's book is exactly what it claims to be. This is not a book for a moron, this is a book for a soccer fan who wants to know how the game is played, has been played, is managed, the history of the game, and the possible future of the game. Gardner is very opinionated, but his opinions are geared toward encouraging intelligent, exciting, attack-oriented soccer. I read this book during my first season of viewing MLS in the US, and now I keep track of the Bundesliga, Premier League, Primera, Serie A, and many other leagues with gusto.

If you are a soccer fan, and your love of the game goes beyond the unintelligent hooligan type, this is the book for you.

Rating: 5
Summary: THE soccer book from THE soccer guru
Comment: Paul Gardner knows what he is talking about. His incredibly entertaining book is punctuated by a sharp wit and thought provoking opinions, and is not hurt by the fact that the game has had such a fascinating history.

Gardner cannot resist putting his opinion into his stories, but it has such a throwback, purist's appeal, that you can't help but pay attention and agree with him. He goes through the history of the game, all the major competitions (World cups 1930-1994, Olympics 1896-1992, European championships), the state of the game worldwide, the state of the game in America and its hopes for the future, and the history of tactics and all the major styles of play.

It really makes no difference that it was prepared for the 1996 Olympics, because if you had not read it on the cover you would probably not have realized that as you were going the book. Gardner does not base the book around this fact at all, making it truly the intelligent fan's guide to soccer.