Match Fixing and Sport: Historical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367368821 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 176 str.

Mike Huggins; Rob Hess

Opis

Match-Fixing and Sport studies match-fixing in historical perspective, revealing how match-fixing has always been a major sporting continuity, alongside another longstanding continuity, a widely-held belief in a mythical recent past of pristine purity.

Spis treści

1. Match-Fixing: A Historical Perspective Mike Huggins 2. Tanking, Shirking, and Running Dead: The Role of Economics and Large Data Sets in Identifying Competition Corruption and its Causes Wray Vamplew 3. Match-Fixing in Cornish Wrestling during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Michael Tripp 4. ‘Playing Dead’ and Killing Off Amateurism: Bribery Scandals, Illegal Player Payments, Rule Expunging, and the Victorian Football League’s Authorization of Professionalism in 1911 Tony Joel, Mathew Turner, and Col Hutchinson 5. The Perils of Blowing the Whistle: Match-Fixing in Scotland and Australia, 1920s to 2015 Roy Hay 6. ‘The Whole of Poland Saw It, and You Gentlemen are Blind’: Match-Fixing in Polish Football – A Case Study from 1993 Christopher Lash 7. Manipulation in Athletics: Historical and Contemporary Ties between On- and Off-Field Corruption in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) JÖrg Krieger 8. Match-Fixing in Polish Football: Historical Perspectives and Sociological Interpretations Wojciech Woźniak 9. The 2012 Olympic Badminton Scandal: Match-Fixing, Code of Conduct Documents, and Women’s Sport Kelsey Blair 10. Not All ‘the Evils of Capitalism’: Match-Fixing and the Governance of Chinese Professional Football, 1994–2016 Fuhua Huang, Wenyan Xiao, and Huijie Zhang