FOUL PLAY
What's WRONG with Sport

'One of the year's most amusing reads, a carefully controlled rant backed up with well-researched facts.'
Observer

'impressive... Joe Humphreys writes from a fan's viewpoint and the moment of clarity that most football supporters eventually have – "What's the point of all this, why am I letting it affect my life so much?"'
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'Humphreys will not be burned at the stake for this book - at least one hopes he won't be - but there is something rather more remarkable, and commendable, about a believer pointing out what's wrong with a particular creed than a similar condemnation being made by someone who was never engaged with it in the first place.

'But this is a timely book, and one that, being written in very easy-to-read prose, takes the fight right to the enemy. And the enemy is the moronic football fan (ie, the dedicated one)... and indeed everyone who claims that sport builds character.'
Nicholas Lezard's paperback choice, The Guardian

front cover of "Foul Play" by Joe Humphreys (features an illustration of a referee and linesman tied to a crossbar by the crowd)back cover of "Foul Play" by Joe Humphreys

'humorous... breathtakingly cynical... entertaining, thought-provoking and well worth a read'
Richard Moore, Scotland On Sunday

'as Irish journalist Joe Humphreys readily notes, greed, scandal and corruption have been bedfellows of sporting endeavour from the very first whistle'
Brian Donaldson, The List

'an entertaining work audaciously subtitled What's Wrong With Sport which intends, according to the author, to "tackle the Sports Delusion"',
Andrew Baker, Telegraph.

'A very interesting and thought-provoking book.' [Listen to the full Interview]
RTÉ's Pat Kenny

Book of the week, Off the Ball, Newstalk [Listen to the full Interview]

'Foul Play will be generate arguments that last well beyond half time. As, on balance, it should'
George O'Brien, writing in The Irish Times

FOUL PLAY
What's WRONG with Sport

is published by Icon Books, London (April 2008)

Joe Humphreys can be contacted at this e-mail address: whatswrongwithsport followed by @gmail.com

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