Foul Play looks at cheating in sport in all its guises: from doping to match-fixing, from tampering with equipment to mind games. Where to draw the line between gamesmanship and outright cheating? Foul Play investigates the lengths some people will go to just to win.
Mike Rowbottom has written about sport for The Times, the Guardian, the Observer and the Independent for more than two decades and is now chief features writer for insidethegames.biz. He has covered the last six summer Olympics and four winter Olympics, as well as many other sports. He co-wrote Olympic athlete Roger Black’s autobiography How Long’s The Course? and is the author of Usain Bolt: Fast as Lightning.
The book contains so many tales of skulduggery that many are sure
to be new to you. ****
*Rugby World*
A timely book ... This is an illuminating, entertaining excursion
into sport’s moral maze. Fair play to the author
*Independent on Sunday, Book of the Week*
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