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The Ugly Game Heidi Blake

The Ugly Game By Heidi Blake

The Ugly Game by Heidi Blake


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Summary

The shocking true story behind how Qatar secured the 2022 World Cup and why FIFA agreed to it

The Ugly Game Summary

The Ugly Game: The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup by Heidi Blake

When FIFA awarded the tiny desert state of Qatar the rights to host the 2022 World Cup, the news was greeted with disbelief and allegations of corruption. 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.

And when the Sunday TimesInsight 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 Timesjournalists at the centre 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 Gameis undoubtedly the biggest sporting story of the year.

About Heidi Blake

Heidi Blake is a multi-award-winning investigative journalist. She was assistant editor of the Sunday Times, attached to the Insight team, until spring 2015 when she became BuzzFeed's UK investigations editor. Jonathan Calvert has worked for various newspapers in a long and distinguished career as an investigative journalist. He is the longest-serving editor of the Insight team at the Sunday Times, having held the role for more than ten years.

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CIN1471149358G
9781471149351
1471149358
The Ugly Game: The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup by Heidi Blake
Used - Good
Paperback
Simon & Schuster Ltd
20150423
480
N/A
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