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The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime [Paperback]

Declan Hill (Author)
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Publication Date: 13 April 2010
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.

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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.


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  • Paperback: 390 pages
  • Publisher: McClelland & Stewart; Reprint edition (13 April 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 077104139X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0771041396
  • Product Dimensions: 15.3 x 1.9 x 22.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 269,724 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Declan Hill is an investigative journalist and academic. He specializes in organized crime and international issues. In the last few years, he has completed documentaries on the killing of the head of the Canadian mafia, blood feuds in Kosovo, and ethnic cleansing in Iraq. Hill has also won awards for documentaries on honour killings in Turkey, and the murder of journalists in the Philippines. He was a Chevening Scholar at Green College, University of Oxford, and received his doctorate for his study of match-fixing in professional soccer.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Engaging sweeping study of footie and crime 19 Mar 2009
By C. Hooft
Format:Hardcover
I bought this book so I could explain globalisation and organized crime to my 12 year old son, and ended up buying half a dozen copies for all the men in my extended family. Hill has done his research and covers half the world. Somehow though he manages to make the stories of footballers, gangsters, and owners engaging, occasionally hilarious, and surprisingly moving.

In essence Hill suggests that globalization is a two-way process of us selling the rest of the world images of the good life, and the rest of world then buying into our games for status, legitimacy, and profit. Gamblers in Asia will no longer bet on their own games because they are too rigged, so now they bet on ours. The stakes are now so high that inevitably the money erodes the beautiful game.

And then he proves it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Read 24 Feb 2012
By Jack
Format:Paperback
The book can become quite hard to read at times, with names (a large percentage being faked for confidentiality purposes) and dates flying around. It's hard to remember who all the people are, what they've done etc. However, the sections that are primarily focused on one or two people become incredibly interesting and easy to read. Personally, the second section (about the World Cup and more recent events) was far more enjoyable, as I actually knew some of the people being mentioned, i.e. the Ghana football team receives a whole lot of attention. The first half of the book does have some irrelevant points and background information, but it helps to give a better understanding throughout the rest of the book.
It starts out reasonably well, starts to dip in the middle of the first section (mainly about corruption in Malaysia/Singapore), but really picks up in the second half. Be warned though, concentration is needed to fully understand what's going on throughout...
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4.0 out of 5 stars A book on the dark side of football 15 Mar 2013
By Erik Cleves Kristensen
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I have often said "the referee is bought" during football games to the amusement of many friends. It is funny, but I have always meant it as only half a joke; there is no doubt that the bribing of referees in football matches has happened at the highest level. Notable examples are the semifinal of the UEFA Cup in 1984, where Anderlecht had paid the referee, who gave them a dubious penalty and disallowed a clear goal to win the match, as well as the scandal of referee Robert Hoyser in Germany in 2005, as well as the bribing of referees in the 2006 Italian match fixing scandal.
All these cases are mentioned and examined in Declan Hill's good but somewhat depressing book about match-fixing in football.
Depressing because, as Mr. Hill himself mentions in the book, all football fans like myself would rather not know about this. We keep living in an ideal world, defending poor refereeing (even when we demand TV to help out referees, some people say that the game should allow for referee mistakes. After reading this: should we also allow for purposeful "mistakes"?) as well as idealizing players and the ideals of fair play in the game.
Surely most people involved in football are dignified and fair people, but we are still blinded to the fact that some players have known to be corrupt, as Mr. Hill documents. Lack of income, clubs without money, and the sheer funds involved in gambling make the possibility of match fixing way to real, even at the highest level. While he never definitely proves fixing of matches at the 2006 World Cup (and this is a weakness in the book as one cannot help but feel that he has stretched his argument), the insinuations are there that one cannot help but be sad about it.... Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Fix 26 Dec 2012
By Mario86
Format:Paperback
I read this book with an open mind and found it very interesting. It was recommended to me and although I roughly knew the subject matter I still couldn't put it down.

Like any billion dollar industry, you have to expect for corruption to be prevalent in soccer. The question is to what level and where is it found? I think most fans of the sport can handle it being found in footballing 'backwaters', far away from their most popular leagues and tournaments. Far East Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe? Fine, as long as it's not in the biggest leagues and the World Cup.

But Declan Hill suggests that the World Cup was targeted and if you read his blog - howtofixasoccergame.com - then you would have read a few months ago that the Ghana goalkeeper from the 2006 World Cup Richard Kingson confirm he was approached by fixers during the tournament, something he denied back in 2006. Due to the figures involved and those targeted, poorly paid officials and players, and the lack of proper match-fixing prevention methods that the soccer authorities (FIFA/UEFA) use, not enough is done to tackle the problem, preferring to bury their heads in the sand. Or worse.

If you read this book in the hope to hear tabloid accusations of the biggest teams and players bribing each other out in the open then you might be disappointed. But if you want to hear of the process of how to fix a game, who is involved and what are the targets and tall tell signs, then this is a book you should read. In fact, I think anyone with interest in the sport should look to read this.
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