Football and Gangsters: How Organised Crime Controls the Beautiful Game

Criminology

Author: Graham Johnson

Who controls soccer in Britain today? The FA? The clubs? The fans? The shocking reality is that organized crime is aggressively moving in and there’s little the authorities can do about it. A revealing investigation into how organized crime has begun to take hold behind the scenes of professional soccer, this study discusses how drug dealers launder money by buying clubs,….Read More

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