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245 14 $aThe ugly game :$bthe Qatari plot to buy the World Cup /$cHeidi Blake, Jonathan Calvert.
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520 $aWhen the tiny desert state of Qatar won the rights to host the 2022 World Cup, the news was greeted with shock and disbelief. 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. Allegations of corruption were soon flying, and when the Sunday Times Insight 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 heart 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. The Ugly Game is undoubtedly the biggest sporting story of the year.
505 0 $aIntro; About the Author; Praise; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; Prologue; 1. A Surprising Proposal; 2. Brother Jack, Der Kaiser and a Man with a Parrot; 3. Bagmen and Brown Envelopes: The Campaign Begins; 4. A Corrupt Official Called Seedy; 5. How to Score Points; 6. Cocktails, Conspiracy and a Million-dollar Dinner; 7. A Crimefighter in Cowboy Boots Comes to Zurich; 8. My Enemy's Enemy; 9. Who Is Sim Hong Chye?; 10. The Casino King, the Thai Voter and the Gas Deal; 11. Spies, Siberia and the Psychic Octopus; 12. Sex, Lies and Videotape
505 8 $a13. Only God Knows What You Do for the Brothers14. In Every Crisis, an Opportunity; 15. Who Watches?; 16. A Fine Lesson in Machiavellian Expertise; 17. No Pause on the Path of Treason; 18. The Riches of Ruin; 19. The Deal; 20. I Have Seen the Ugly Face of Football; 21. After the Story, the Civil War; Epilogue; Afterword; The Ugly Game Cast List; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations
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