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Andrew Jennings, the world's foremost investigative sports reporter, spent four years delving into the dark side of 'the beautiful game'.

The result is this explosive and damning expose of the officials that run football's world governing body FIFA - a story of how the 'men in suits' put personal ambition and money before the fans on the terraces.

No individual has managed to penetrate the secret world of FIFA.

Until now. Andrew Jennings, the world's leading sports investigative reporter, has unearthed the stories that FIFA doesn't want told.

He blows the whistle on an international cash-for-contracts scandal and reveals how some football officials have been urged to secretly repay the sweeteners they received.

He asks why FIFA President delayed acting against troubled marketing company ISL, who wrongly withheld GBP 45 million of FIFA's cash.

He exposes the vote-rigging that went on behind closed doors in the fight for control of FIFA.

Jennings has researched in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe.

He has uncovered damning evidence and persuaded FIFA insiders to talk to him about the questionable business practices they've witnessed. "Foul!'s" mix of world-class probing journalis

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HarperSport
0007208111 / 9780007208111
Hardback
02/05/2006
England
English
xi, 386 p.
24 cm
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/ Lead title Andrew Jennings, an award-winning investigative sports reporter, spent four years delving into the dark side of 'the beautiful game'. The result is this explosive and damning expose of the officials that run football's world governing body, FIFA -- a story of how the men in suits put personal ambition and money before the fans on the terraces. / The book that FIFA tried to ban -- and failed. / Author is the doyen of investigative sports journalists and has an unparalleled track record in uncovering the truth. / His first book on Olympic corruption, The Lords of the Rings, sold ove
/ Lead title Andrew Jennings, an award-winning investigative sports reporter, spent four years delving into the dark side of 'the beautiful game'. The result is this explosive and damning expose of the officials that run football's world governing body, FIFA -- a story of how the men in suits put personal ambition and money before the fans on the terraces. / The book that FIFA tried to ban -- and failed. / Author is the doyen of investigative sports journalists and has an unparalleled track record in uncovering the truth. / His first book on Olympic corruption, The Lords of the Rings, sold ove WSJA Football (Soccer, Association football)