The theme is men and women, how they cope with each other and football. A collection from authors as varied as Hugo Borst (on the loves and times of Ed de Goey) and Amy Raphael (on running with Steve McManaman), Harry Ritchie (on football dates) and Ian Macmillan (on the poetry of football).
Simon Kuper is a journalist for the Financial Times in England. He was born in Uganda of South African parents and moved to the Netherlands as a child. He studied History and German at Oxford University, and attended Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar. He has written for The Times, Observer, Guardian and Le Monde, and also writes regularly for the Spectator and Dutch newspapers.