Football and Gangsters

Football and Gangsters by Graham Johnson

Who controls football in Britain today? The FA? The clubs? The fans? The shocking reality is that organised crime is moving in more aggressively than a Wayne Rooney tackle and there's little the authorities can do about it. Football and Gangsters is a revealing investigation into how organised crime has begun to take hold behind the scenes of professional football. Michael Owen, Rio Ferdinand and Robbie Fowler are just some of the sport's big names to have fallen foul of the game's godfathers and paid the price. Their alarming stories are told here. Criminal organisations have manoeuvred themselves into a position of power in football. Drug dealers launder money by buying clubs; hooligan gangs have muscled their way into the boardroom; and the influence of Asian betting rings continues to grow. Through a series of dangerous undercover investigations, along with interviews with players, club officials, police and the underworld figures responsible, the sensational evidence is laid bare in this book.

"Book of the Week" * Independent on Sunday *
"Loyal followers of "the beautiful game" will be astonished by some of the revelations in this fascinating book, which spreads the net far and wide" * Programme Monthly *
"'Football and Gangsters will tell you more than you thought you wanted to know'" * When Saturday Comes *
"This is a book that really gets under the skin of "the beautiful game"" * Belfast Sunday Life *

Former investigations editor at the Sunday Mirror, Graham Johnson is now a full-time crime writer and author of the bestselling Powder Wars and Druglord.

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ISBN 13	9781845962470
ISBN 10	1845962478
Title	Football and Gangsters
Author	Graham Johnson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Transworld Publishers Ltd
Year published	2007-08-02
Number of pages	208
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