John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson

Football, Corruption and Lies (eBook, ePUB)

Revisiting 'Badfellas', the book FIFA tried to ban

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When first published, Badfellas was lauded as a ground-breaking work of critical sport sociology that exposed the systematic corruption at the heart of world football. Now re-issued with new chapters that cover the current crisis and demonstrate the continuing importance of critical, investigative methods in sport studies, this is essential reading for anybody looking to understand Blatter's rise and fall.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134811748
• Artikelnr.: 46758170

Autorenporträt

John Sugden is Professor of the Sociology of Sport at the University of Brighton, UK. He is well known for his work on the sociology of boxing; sport and peace building in divided societies; his studies - with Alan Tomlinson - of the world governing body for football, FIFA; and for his investigative research into football's underground economy. Currently, John is a leading member of the Sport and Leisure Cultures subject group and Director of the University of Brighton's flagship worldwide community relations project, Football4peace.

Alan Tomlinson is Professor of Leisure Studies, School of Humanities, at the University of Brighton, UK. He is a renowned scholar and researcher on the social history and sociology of sport, leisure and popular culture. Alan has researched the history and politics of FIFA since the mid-1980s, and is a pioneer of the critical social scientific study of sport. He is the author of numerous books on sport, leisure and consumption, including Consumption, Identity and Style and FIFA: The Men, the Myths and the Money as well as being a long-term contributor to the soccer periodical When Saturday Comes.