Collect Foul! The Secret World Of FIFA: Bribes, Vote Rigging And Ticket Scandals Illustrated By Andrew Jennings Textbook
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This book wasn't perfect, there were a couple of chapters which were average, rather than the normal standard of very good or excellent.
I thought a slightly unfair caricature of Stanley Rous was drawn, given what I read in David Conn's excellent book on FIFA.
That book showed that Rous was far more innovative than given credit for, was the person who first connected Dassler with FIFA and though mistaken in not banning South Africa from FIFA, he was an opponent not apologist for apartheid.
All that said the vast majority of this book is excellent, written by an investigative journalist at the top of his game.
Jennings has a writing style which draws you in, It's written in a thrilling pacy style and explains corruption and financial chicanery in a way the average Joe Public like me can understand.
It reads like a real life thriller and I enjoyed every moment of reading it, though sometimes the level of corruption and personal shabbiness of those involved in FIFA made my jaw drop.
The way he writes about Jack Warner is excellent, Long before this Lord of misrule and corruption was finally removed from FIFA and held accountable for his crimes, Jenninngs was on his case and showing him to
be to nasty charlatan he was.
The drawing of Blatter is not positive to say the least and the way his lawyers tried to stop this book from being published, banning Jennings from FIFA press conferences as well as his personal role in the tawdry Visa and Mastercard negotiations, showed Blatter fairly in a very poor light.
This book also gives you an insight in to the tools of the trade when it comes to investigative journalism and the intimidation you can face for revealing what those in power don't want the public to see.
Of course this book finishes inand a lot has happened since then covered well by David Conn, If you want to understand how FIFA went on the path that led to its darkest days it has faced so far, as described exceedingly well by Conn, then this excellent book by the late and missed Andrew Jennings is for you.
If you want to understand the heart of darkness and den of thievery that was FIFA and sadly I think in many ways it remains that same organisation, I would recommend reading Jennings book, then Conn's.
Informative so far Interesting investigation, somewhat depressing if you're a footie fan, So many scum leading the Football world, But very interesting. Exposing the sordid world of life inside football's governing body, this book is enough to provoke rage in anyone who first became enchanted by football as a sport, not as a jolly and a means of stuffing pockets with wads of cash.
Everyone involved in football should read it, Why this doesn't smash FIFA into pieces I have no idea, Too verbose Andrew Jennings, an awardwinning investigative sports reporter, spent four years delving into the dark side of 'the beautiful game', The result is this explosive and damning exposé of the officials that run football's world governing body, FIFA,
No individual has managed to penetrate the sanctified domain of FIFA and probed successfully into its often criticized yet unproven corruption of the world game.
Until now.
Author Andrew Jennings argues how FIFA President Sepp Blatter and his associates have misappropriated their position at the head of the world game in their desire for power, control, and a lucrative payoff.
How did these bizarre characters manage to take such control Foul! is the explosive story,
Jennings has undertaken unprecedented research in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, interviewing hundreds of officials and amassing an extraordinary library of damning documents.
He tells how Blatter and his cronies built an invincible electoral machine to keep him in power forever, He revisits thes and the privatization of international sport and its revenues by a closeknit group of officials and marketing agents working for their own selfinterest.
As a football fan, this book made me both angry and sad, If you like the 'beautiful' game, this book is unfortunately necessary reading, FIFA is so corrupt
The world needs more champions like Andrew Jennings, Well done. A great exposé on the corruption inside FIFA and the football soccer world, It is impossible to see the sport through those idealistic rosy colored lenses again, This is, indeed, the kind of book that makes every football fan sad, Several years have passed since this book was written and it seems that it only had scratched the surface, I can only give this bookbut its not the books fault!! This was published inand I should have read it then rather than now.
Anyone in the football world now knows Blatter is a crook, Jack warner is a crook and the whole of FIFA is broken.
So wish I had read it earlier but still a decent read Good Lord, An utterly ridiculous collection of smallminded, petty, venal, grasping men, Fantasist rubbish Esclarecedor After reading it, you'll never see soccer the same way, Around the soccer fields lies a web of corruption, big money and dirty disgusting businesses, Powerful work of Andrew Jennings! sitelink ro/faultlumeasec I found this book exceptional, It is written like a who done it, with a fast pace writing style and it includes a dastardly villian, The plot is also something out of fiction and without the events of the last few years proving the author correct it would be beyond belief.
Andrew Jennings is one fantastic man, and must keep this up, AndrewJenningsAndrew Jennings is an internationally respected journalist, writer and film maker, His seminal book exposing Olympic corruption The Lords of the Rings was an international bestseller in, He has written for The Times, Daily Mail, Sunday Times and New Statesman as well as for publications all over Europe, For many years he produced and reported for Granada TVs World in Action and also for BBC radio and television, bio AndrewJenningsAndrew Jennings is an internationally respected journalist, writer and film maker, His seminal book exposing Olympic corruption The Lords of the Rings' was an international bestseller in, He has written for The Times, Daily Mail, Sunday Times and New Statesman as well as for publications all over Europe, For many years he produced and reported for Granada TV's World in Action and also for BBC radio and television, bio sitelink.