Kapadia's biography of Indian football reflects a deep affinity of the game

Kapadia's kind of affection for football is rare to find in India and his biography, 'Barefoot to Boots' is a startling testament to that

The past few months have seen two wonderfully absorbing books on football, Michael Cox’s The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines and Duncan Alexander’s Outside the Box: A Statistical Journey Through the History of Football, hit the shelves. When it comes to deconstructing tactics in the modern game, there are very few who can match the percipience of Cox. Alexander — hugely revered as OptaJoe on Twitter — is a number-adoring brainiac whose statistical exactness is almost essential to any most match report. As writers and analysts, both Cox and Alexander are enormously