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The Ugly Game - The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup (Paperback)
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The Ugly Game - The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup (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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