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The Ugly Game - The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup

English · Paperback

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THE STORY THAT BROUGHT DOWN FIFA''S SEPP BLATTER. ''With every page of this book, we see just why FIFA desperately needs a complete overhaul'' - Sun When FIFA awarded the tiny desert state of Qatar the rights to host the 2022 World Cup , the news was greeted with disbelief and allegations of corruption . How had a country with almost no football infrastructure or tradition, a high terror risk and searing summer temperatures of 50C beaten more established countries with stronger bids? The story behind the Qatari success soon developed into one of the greatest sporting scandals of our time . And when the Sunday Times Insight team received a cache of hundreds of millions of documents from a whistleblower, the contents of the FIFA Files became a global sensation , unearthing the corruption that lay at the heart of the bidding process. Now in this remarkable new book by the Sunday Times journalists at the centre of the investigation, Heidi Blake and Jonathan Calvert, comes the most comprehensive account yet of what happened and who was involved. Above all, it explains why, despite all the evidence, FIFA continues to support Qatar - even to the extent of publishing an edited and abbreviated report into the process that was immediately denounced by its original author. Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, The Ugly Game is undoubtedly the biggest sporting story of our times. ''Never before has bribe-giving been documented in such graphic detail'' - Independent

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Authors Heid Blake, Heidi Blake, Heidi Calvert Blake, Blake Heidi, Jonathan Calvert, Calvert Jonathan, Heidi Blake Jonath
Publisher Simon & Schuster UK
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 11.02.2016
 
EAN 9781471149375
ISBN 978-1-4711-4937-5
No. of pages 488
Dimensions 130 mm x 197 mm x 31 mm
Subjects Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history
Non-fiction book

Erinnerungen (div.) s.a. Einzelperson, Skandal, Blatter, Joseph S., Swissness, FIFA, Weltfussballverband, World Cups and World championships

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