Imitation Games

How Gambling Hijacked Sport

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Beschreibung

<p><b>'Meticulous and devastating... Read this book to learn the truth about the game you love'<br>Oliver Bullough, author of </b><i><b>Moneyland</b></i></p><p><i>A cheeky flutter. All part of the game. Get closer to the action. A friendly, familiar voice, inviting you to join the real fans and get involved. What harm could it do...</i></p><p>It has never been easier to stake a bet. Wall to wall adverts have hijacked every sporting event - the mobile slot machine in your pocket all you need to enter an immersive world in which gambling is faceless and frictionless, available 24/7, on almost any aspect of any sport.</p><p>Since its origins as a provincial cottage industry almost twenty-five years ago, online gambling has become a globe-straddling behemoth worth more than £10 billion a year. It can sometimes feel as if the <i>point</i> of sport is to bet on it.</p><p>How did we get here? How did a new wave of gambling brands hijack sport on a global scale? In <i>Imitation Games</i>, Darragh McGee travels the world to tell the incredible story of the digital brands who unleashed this new world of gambling onto a new generation of fans (and got very rich doing so).</p><p>At the same time, he traces the harm and human cost that gambling leaves behind, and shows how we can create a different future for sport and society. Because when the fun stops, it stops hard.</p><p><b>'McGee takes readers on a gripping journey'</b></p><p><b>Natasha Schüll, author of <i>Addiction by Design</i></b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781847929310

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

235 x 156 x 42 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House UK Ltd