The ugly game :
Blake, Heidi
The ugly game : the Qatari plot to buy the World Cup / Heidi Blake and Jonathan Calvert. - London, etc. : Simon & Schuster, c2016. - 488, [8] p. : plates col. ; 20 cm.
Ch. 1. A surprising proposal --
Ch. 2. Brother Jack, Der Kaiser and man with parrot --
Ch. 3. Bagmen and brown envelopes: the campaign begins --
Ch. 4. A corrupt official called Seedy --
Ch. 5. How to score points--
Ch. 6. Cocktails, conspiracy and a million-dollar dinner --
Ch. 7. A crimefighter in cowboy boots comes to Zurich --
Ch. 8. My enemy’s enemy --
Ch. 9. Who is Sim Hong Chye? --
Ch. 10. The Casino King, the Thai Voter and the Gas Deal --
Ch. 11. Spies, Siberia and the psychic octopus --
Ch. 12. Sex, lies and videotape --
Ch. 13. Only God knows what you do for the brothers --
Ch. 14. In every crisis, an opportunity --
Ch. 15. Who watches? --
Ch. 16. A fine lesson in machiavellian expertise --
Ch. 17. No pause on the path of treason --
Ch. 18. The riches of ruin --
Ch. 19. The deal --
Ch. 20. I have seen the ugly face of football --
Ch. 21. After the story, the Civil War.
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 TimesInsight 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 under Sepp Blatter 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 Gameis undoubtedly the biggest sporting story of our times.
9781471149375
Fédération internationale de football association
World Cup (Soccer)
Corruption--Qatar
796.3346
The ugly game : the Qatari plot to buy the World Cup / Heidi Blake and Jonathan Calvert. - London, etc. : Simon & Schuster, c2016. - 488, [8] p. : plates col. ; 20 cm.
Ch. 1. A surprising proposal --
Ch. 2. Brother Jack, Der Kaiser and man with parrot --
Ch. 3. Bagmen and brown envelopes: the campaign begins --
Ch. 4. A corrupt official called Seedy --
Ch. 5. How to score points--
Ch. 6. Cocktails, conspiracy and a million-dollar dinner --
Ch. 7. A crimefighter in cowboy boots comes to Zurich --
Ch. 8. My enemy’s enemy --
Ch. 9. Who is Sim Hong Chye? --
Ch. 10. The Casino King, the Thai Voter and the Gas Deal --
Ch. 11. Spies, Siberia and the psychic octopus --
Ch. 12. Sex, lies and videotape --
Ch. 13. Only God knows what you do for the brothers --
Ch. 14. In every crisis, an opportunity --
Ch. 15. Who watches? --
Ch. 16. A fine lesson in machiavellian expertise --
Ch. 17. No pause on the path of treason --
Ch. 18. The riches of ruin --
Ch. 19. The deal --
Ch. 20. I have seen the ugly face of football --
Ch. 21. After the story, the Civil War.
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 TimesInsight 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 under Sepp Blatter 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 Gameis undoubtedly the biggest sporting story of our times.
9781471149375
Fédération internationale de football association
World Cup (Soccer)
Corruption--Qatar
796.3346