Match Fixing and Sport (eBook, ePUB)

Historical Perspectives
Redaktion: Huggins, Mike; Hess, Rob

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Match-Fixing and Sport studies match-fixing in historical perspective, revealing how match-fixing has always been a major sporting continuity, alongside another longstanding continuity, a widely-held belief in a mythical recent past of pristine purity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000200270
• Artikelnr.: 59633153

Autorenporträt

Mike Huggins is an Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cumbria and is also the President of the European Committee for Sports History. Rob Hess is an Adjunct Associate Professor with the College of Sport and Exercise Science and the Institute for Health and Sport at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Match-Fixing: A Historical Perspective Mike Huggins 2. Tanking,
Shirking, and Running Dead: The Role of Economics and Large Data Sets in
Identifying Competition Corruption and its Causes Wray Vamplew 3.
Match-Fixing in Cornish Wrestling during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
Centuries Michael Tripp 4. 'Playing Dead' and Killing Off Amateurism:
Bribery Scandals, Illegal Player Payments, Rule Expunging, and the
Victorian Football League's Authorization of Professionalism in 1911 Tony
Joel, Mathew Turner, and Col Hutchinson 5. The Perils of Blowing the
Whistle: Match-Fixing in Scotland and Australia, 1920s to 2015 Roy Hay 6.
'The Whole of Poland Saw It, and You Gentlemen are Blind': Match-Fixing in
Polish Football - A Case Study from 1993 Christopher Lash 7. Manipulation
in Athletics: Historical and Contemporary Ties between On- and Off-Field
Corruption in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)
JÖrg Krieger 8. Match-Fixing in Polish Football: Historical Perspectives
and Sociological Interpretations Wojciech Wöniak 9. The 2012 Olympic
Badminton Scandal: Match-Fixing, Code of Conduct Documents, and Women's
Sport Kelsey Blair 10. Not All 'the Evils of Capitalism': Match-Fixing and
the Governance of Chinese Professional Football, 1994-2016 Fuhua Huang,
Wenyan Xiao, and Huijie Zhang