The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime

By Declan Hill

Book Overview

The Fix is the most explosive story of sports corruption in a generation. Intriguing, riveting, and compelling, it tells the story of an investigative journalist who sets out to examine the world of match-fixing in professional soccer. From the Introduction Understand how gambling fixers work to corrupt a soccer game and you will understand how they move into a basketball league, a cricket tournament, or a tennis match (all places, by the way, that criminal fixers have moved into). My views on soccer have changed. I still love the Saturday-morning game between amateurs: the camaraderie and the fresh smell of grass. But the professional game leaves me cold. I hope you will understand why after reading the book. I think you may never look at sport in the same way again.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077104139X
• ISBN13: 9780771041396
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great exposé of corruption.

I can't provide a spoiler - the title says it all. Accurate, searing and totally believable exposé of game fixing at all levels of soccer. Even down to public school level (England). If you don't want your illusions shattered - stay away. If you want to know who decides the winners at all levels of soccer, read it. Declan writes well, and clearly. It's easy to follow his narrative.