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Gangland This Unsporting Life

By James Morton
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Gangland This Unsporting Life by James Morton delves into the shadowy intersection of organised crime and the world of sports. The book explores how gangsters have infiltrated various sports, highlighting notorious figures and cases where criminal activities have influenced games and competitions. With gripping insights, it unveils the extent to which crime and corruption have permeated the sporting world.
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This engrossing crime and thriller book delves into the gritty and unvarnished world of organised crime. You might enjoy it if you're fascinated by real-life criminal enterprises, enjoy exploring the psychology behind criminal behaviour, and appreciate a detailed examination of how these illicit worlds operate from the inside.

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Gangland This Unsporting Life

Sport has always attracted organised crime. Huge sums of money are wagered in every arena, and rorts, swindles and unsporting behaviour have shadowed players of all codes. James Morton and Susanna Lobez investigate the cheating underbelly of sport, from the first cricket pitch invasion in the 1890s through to the contemporary scandals.

Bribes, drugs and rorts are too often the drivers for who triumphs in sport.

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Bribes, drugs, and rorts are too often the drivers for who triumphs in sport.

Sport has always attracted organised crime. Huge sums of money are wagered in every arena, and rorts, swindles, and unsporting behaviour have shadowed players of all codes. Cricket and footy are not immune, with Heath Shaw and Ben Cousins caught up in gambling and drugs, and NRL star Ryan Tandy in match-fixing. Plenty of punters have criminal connections—Alphonse Gangitano and the Moran brothers. Drugs play a major part on and off the fields of play (looking at you, Essendon Football Club and Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks) with horses and greyhounds also routinely doped.

Gangland This Unsporting Life by James Morton and Susanna Lobez investigates the cheating underbelly of sport, from the first cricket pitch invasion in the 1890s through to the contemporary scandals that will leave you wondering if there is such a thing as a sporting chance.

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ISBN: 9780522874808

Publisher: Melbourne University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 October 2019

Country: Australia

Imprint: Victory Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 233.0mm

Weight: 336g

Pages: 248

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Biography & Memoir Crime & Thriller Fiction James Morton True Crime

About the Author

James Morton, a former defence lawyer in England, is one of Britain's leading experts on crime, and the author of more than fifty books. Susanna Lobez is an actor-turned-barrister-turned-broadcaster. She has been an ABC specialist legal broadcaster on The Law Report (radio) and Law Matters (TV). She has written feature articles for The Age and columns for the Sunday Herald Sun.

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