Foul!: The Secret World of FIFA: Bribes, Vote Rigging and Ticket Scandals

by Andrew Jennings

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Andrew Jennings, the investigative sports reporter, spent four years delving into the dark side of 'the beautiful game'. The result is this expose of football's world governing body FIFA - a story of racketeering, bribe-taking, election-rigging, illicit trading, and dirty tricks."

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Both Brilliant and depressing, sheds a light on the murky workings of Sepp Blatters FIFA and how flat out denial can work when not enough people want to rock the gravy train they all ride on.
"....Andrew Jennings is a top investigative journalist and has done all sorts of things that people would consider more serious, but he has really lifted the lid on how corrupt some parts of the modern-day game really are. He is the only journalist who has ever been banned from FIFA press conferences. Sepp Blatter absolutely hates him. Blatter has been the president of FIFA since 1998. Football is incredibly undemocratic. You get people who have been in power for years and years and years and they nobble their opponents so they get to carry on. ..." ( Reviewed by Steve Bloomfield in Fivebooks).



The full interview is available here: http://fivebooks.com/interviews/steve-bloomfield-on-world-football

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Sports and Leisure, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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796.33466Arts & recreationRecreation, sports, and performing artsSportsBall sportsInflated ball driven by the footSoccerSpecific types of soccerInternational
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GV943.55 .F4Geography, Anthropology and RecreationRecreation. LeisureRecreation. LeisureSportsBall games: Baseball, football, golf, etc.
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