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How They Stole the Game

ebook / ISBN-13: 9781780334028

Price: £12.99

ON SALE: 15th September 2011

Genre: Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure

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What’s wrong with Football today? In June 2011, Sepp Blatter was elected – uncontested – as president of Fifa once more. Despite attempts to halt the vote amidst allegations and accusations of corruption, the show went on.

As How They Stole The Game, David Yallop’s classic expose of the dark heart behind the beautiful game showed when it was first published, Football was rotten from the top down. In the book Yallop reveals the story of João Havelenge, Fifa President from 1974 to 1998, the Godfather of football, and how he turned a religion to millions of fans into a multi-billion dollar business, riven with suspicious deals and unexpected payments.

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The authoritative inside account of how world football is run.
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