Below is a guest piece I wrote recently for The Secret Footballer’s site.
It’s an extended essay looking at Heidi Blake and Jonathan Calvert’s remarkable exposé of the Qatari World Cup bid. The book’s interesting for many reasons (not least that it has the same title as mine), but what really struck me about it was the overwhelming impression that Fifa is completely beyond help and can no longer be reformed from within.
If that’s really true, then what do we do?
The Ugly Game 