Foul Play: What's Wrong with Sport

by Joe Humphreys

Book Overview

Common wisdom decrees that sport has an overwhelmingly positive influence on our civilisation. It's good for your health, builds character, unites nations and generates peace and love and understanding across the globe...Or so we are told by sporting evangelists who spread the word on the back - and now increasingly the front - pages of our newspapers. But are we being sold a lie? "Foul Play" shows how our belief in the value of sport is misplaced.Tracing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840468904
• ISBN13: 9781840468908
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Length: 208 Pages