This book has a cumulative power, piling betrayal on betrayal, until they even include one of Conn's childhood idols from the 1974 World Cup, the German player Franz Beckenbauer * Guardian * We have known for so long that Fifa, world's football's governing body, is rank with institutionalised corruption... But then if we are to hand a rifle to anyone to shoot fish in a barrel, there could be no choice than David Conn, the dogged investigate reporter... The figures he uncovers in this book are breathtaking * Mail on Sunday * Even in age inured to corruption, the reign of Sepp Blatter over football's global ruling body, Fifa, was jaw-droppingly spectacular... How did he do it? David Conn's patient unravelling of Fifa's tangled web provides the answer, and it makes for ugly but revealing reading... Conn, a sport journalist on the Guardian, negotiates the murky world of big money with confidence and dogged calm in this tale of the beautiful game gone bad * Observer * Excellent * Sunday Times * A very fine piece of reportage, probing to the organisation's dark and festering heart while also taking care to accentuate the good FIFA has done in the world * BALLS.ie *