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Football, Corruption and Lies: Revisiting 'Badfellas', the book FIFA tried to ban
Sugden, John (Brighton University, UK)
World football is in crisis. The corruption scandal engulfing FIFA is arguably the biggest story in the history of modern sport and a watershed for sport governance. More than a decade ago, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson laid the foundations for subsequent investigations with the publication of Badfellas, a groundbreaking work of critical sport sociology that exposed the systematic corruption at the heart of world football. It was a book that FIFA and Sepp Blatter tried to ban.
Now re-issued to combine the original contents of Badfellas with new chapters covering the current crisis, this book points to the ways in which FIFA?s new administration can learn from the Blatter story. The prequel traces the course of Sugden and Tomlinson?s game-changing investigation into FIFA, while the sequel updates the FIFA story from 2002 onwards and provides a chronology of crises and scandals within the FIFA narrative.
Demonstrating the vital importance of critical investigative methods in sport studies, Football, Corruption and Lies: Revisiting Badfellas, the book FIFA tried to ban is essential reading for anybody looking to understand Blatter?s rise and fall.
290 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 18, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138681736 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 290 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 234 × 23 mm · 580 g |
| Language | English |
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