{"product_id":"heidi-blake-the-ugly-game-2016-paperback","title":"Heidi Blake: The Ugly Game [2016] paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eTHE STORY THAT BROUGHT DOWN FIFA'S SEPP BLATTER.\u003cbr\u003e 'With every page of this book, we see just why FIFA desperately needs a complete overhaul' - \u003ci\u003eSun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When FIFA awarded the tiny desert state of \u003cb\u003eQatar\u003c\/b\u003e the rights to host the \u003cb\u003e2022 World Cup\u003c\/b\u003e, the news was greeted with \u003cb\u003edisbelief and allegations of corruption\u003c\/b\u003e. 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 \u003cb\u003egreatest sporting scandals of our time\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And when the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Insight team received a cache of hundreds of millions of documents from a whistleblower, the contents of the FIFA Files became a \u003cb\u003eglobal sensation\u003c\/b\u003e, unearthing the corruption that lay at the heart of the bidding process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Now in this remarkable new book by the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e journalists at the centre of the investigation, Heidi Blake and Jonathan Calvert, comes the \u003cb\u003emost comprehensive account\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Ugly Game\u003c\/i\u003e is undoubtedly the biggest sporting story of our times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Never before has bribe-giving been documented in such graphic detail' - \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Blake, Heidi \u0026 Calvert, Jonathan","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53361446715731,"sku":"9781471149375","price":14.27,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53361446748499,"sku":"XV81471149375","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/blake-heidi-calvert-jonathan-heidi-blake-the-ugly-game-2016-paperback-1229729931.jpg?v=1774724076","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/heidi-blake-the-ugly-game-2016-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}