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Fix Soccer and Organized Crime

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ISBN-10: 077104139X

ISBN-13: 9780771041396

Edition: 2010

Authors: Declan Hill

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List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Publication date: 4/13/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.93" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Declan Hill is an investigative journalist and academic. He specializes in organized crime and international issues. In the last few years, he has completed documentaries on the killing of the head of the Canadian mafia, blood feuds in Kosovo, and ethnic cleansing in Iraq. Hill has also won awards for documentaries on honour killings in Turkey, and the murder of journalists in the Philippines. He was a Chevening Scholar at Green College, University of Oxford, and received his doctorate for his study of match-fixing in professional soccer.

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Preface to the Paperback Edition
Introduction: The Birds of Prey
Asia: The Storm Clouds
Prologue
The Conquest of the Locusts
"What the Hell Do You Think You're Doing?"
Experts in Verbal Bullshit
Missing the Big Boys
Keeping the System Turning
The Mob, Trust, and Serious Reprimands
The Collapse of the Betting Line
Europe: A Normal Way of Business
Prologue
The Arrival of the Locusts
The Golden Age
To Fix or Not to Fix?
How to Fix a Soccer Game
Sex and the Men in Black
The Guns are Facing the Wrong Way
No Point in Going Out There
The World Cup
Prologue
The Story of Pal
Behind the Door
The Set-Up
A Small Town in Germany
The Gold Coast
I Swear, I'm Innocent
Who Guards the Guardians?
Epilogue: The Salvation of Soccer
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index