The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime
Declan Hill$16.11
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The Fix is the most explosive story of sports corruption in a generation. Intriguing, riveting, and compelling, it tells the story of an investigative journalist who sets out to examine the world of match-fixing in professional soccer. From the Introduction
Understand how gambling fixers work to corrupt a soccer game and you will understand how they move into a basketball league, a cricket tournament, or a tennis match (all places, by the way, that criminal fixers have moved into). My views on soccer have changed. I still love the Saturday-morning game between amateurs: the camaraderie and the fresh smell of grass. But the professional game leaves me cold. I hope you will understand why after reading the book. I think you may never look at sport in the same way again.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 04/13/2010
ISBN: 9780771041396
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.10w x 0.89d
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 92
Understand how gambling fixers work to corrupt a soccer game and you will understand how they move into a basketball league, a cricket tournament, or a tennis match (all places, by the way, that criminal fixers have moved into). My views on soccer have changed. I still love the Saturday-morning game between amateurs: the camaraderie and the fresh smell of grass. But the professional game leaves me cold. I hope you will understand why after reading the book. I think you may never look at sport in the same way again.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 04/13/2010
ISBN: 9780771041396
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.10w x 0.89d
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 92