Ian Graham Audiobooks

How to Win the Premier League: football rebuilt around data

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★ 4.4/5 average

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Who is Ian Graham?

Football books usually promise dressing room gossip. This one is filed under sport and technology at once, and that double shelving is the clearest description of what Ian Graham is doing: treating the game as a problem that yields to measurement.

The argument, put simply, is that intuition has been the most expensive habit in football, and that clubs willing to test their instincts against evidence have quietly changed the way squads get built. It is written for people who love the game rather than for statisticians, which is the harder brief of the two, and the numbers arrive as narrative rather than as tables.

Ian Graham in audiobooks

Daniel Hawksford narrates, and the choice pays off across nine and a half hours. The material needs a reader who can carry an argument without flattening it or overselling it, and audio suits this book far better than one might expect of a subject usually assumed to need charts.

Several hundred listeners have rated the recording and the average has held steady, a strong showing for a sports title of any description. If you follow the Premier League and have ever argued about recruitment, begin here. The listing sits underneath.