Declan Hill's international best-selling book The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime is headed for the small screen. Feature film banner Ineffable Pictures will make its first foray into television and adapt the novel, shopping the crime drama to cable and international channels, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The Fix is an in-depth look at soccer match fixing. Hill, an investigative journalist, examined the gambling underworld in which billions of dollars are wagered every year at the highest level of soccer, including the Champions League and FIFA World Cup tournaments. The book has been translated into 15 languages. Hill
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- 6/25/2013
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
What if busted ref calls and the odd flight patterns of the Jabulani ball are not the most serious problems at this year’s World Cup? When The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime was first published in 2008, it was hailed as one of the most controversial and important sports books of its time. Declan Hill, an investigative journalist and academic, wrote the book after spending years researching the corruption and illegal gambling that plague the world’s most popular sport, from weekend youth games to the Men’s and Women’s World Cups. Michel Platini, the president of UEFA, read the book and made moves to preserve the integrity of the game in Europe. Sepp Blatter, the head of FIFA, has not responded in kind. Is it possible that some of the games we’ve been watching for the past four weeks were fixed? Hill thinks it is. In this excerpt for Fair Play,...
- 7/8/2010
- Vanity Fair
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