FOOTBALL IS RIDDEN WITH COMMERCIAL CRIME: FATF
August 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOOTBALL maybe the 'beautiful game', but it is also a cesspool of international commercial crime. Keith Nuthall reports.
THERE has always been more than a hint of raffishness about the world's most popular sport football, or soccer as it is known in north America and Australasia. And as the game has become increasingly wealthy over the past 20 years, stories have poured into the popular press about various excesses, whether vulgar behaviour from oafish players or unbridled greed exhibited by managers and executives.
The brutal fact is that ...
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