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The Fall and Rise of Brentford FC

Alex Duff is a distinguished sports business reporter, having worked for Bloomberg News for fifteen years. His first book Football's Secret Trade (Wiley & Sons, 2017) about the football transfer market was serialized in the New York Times and Guardian, and featured in the Daily Mail. His second book Le Fric: Family, Power and Money: The Business of the Tour de France (Constable, 2022) was longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and named as one of the `Best Summer Reads' of 2022 by the Financial Times. It was praised in the Sunday Times and Times Literary Supplement.