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Great balls of fire : how big money is hijacking world football

Title
Great balls of fire : how big money is hijacking world football / John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson.
Author
Sugden, John Peter.
Publication
Edinburgh : Mainstream Pub., 1999.

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Additional Authors
Tomlinson, Alan.
Description
192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm
Summary
"An examination of how money is hijacking world football, set against the backdrop of France '98."
Subject
  • Fédération internationale de football association
  • FIFA
  • Fußballweltmeisterschaft
  • Soccer > Economic aspects
  • Sports sponsorship
  • World Cup (Soccer) (1998 : France)
  • Parrainage sportif
  • Kommerzialisierung
  • Korruption
  • Machtpolitik
  • Sportpolitik
  • Fußball
  • Management
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
  • Preface. p. 7.
  • 1. Judgement Day. p. 11.
  • 2. Blazer-and-Slacks Brigade. p. 22.
  • 3. Goodbye, Colonel Blimp. p. 30.
  • 4. Big Man. p. 42.
  • 5. Predator and the Protege. p. 55.
  • 6. Bounty Hunter. p. 72.
  • 7. Big Boss. p. 87.
  • 8. Rumble in the Jungle. p. 99.
  • 9. From Protege to President. p. 110.
  • 10. Politics of the Belly. p. 130.
  • 11. Tout Heaven. p. 142.
  • 12. Best Club in the World. p. 154.
  • 13. Lancaster Gate. p. 167.
  • 14. Fifaland. p. 184.
ISBN
  • 1840181265
  • 9781840181265
OCLC
  • ocm43364675
  • 43364675
  • SCSB-14129660
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library