'Freakonomics meets Football Corruption'. There is a wave of match-fixing that is threatening the very survival of sport. National police investigations are occurring in over-sixty different countries, hundreds of matches have been fixed, over one thousand players, coaches and referees have been arrested. The credibility of an entire sport - football (soccer) - is in danger, according to Michel Platini the President of UEFA. It will destroy football, unless we fight it. To fight it, we have to understand it. 'The Insider's Guide to Match-Fixing in Football' is an analysis of the motivations, the mechanisms and the methods within this modern form of fixing. The book examines key questions like; - Why do football players fix matches? - Is violence used against referees and players to make them fix matches? - How is fixing different from cheating? - Why do some rich, strong teams bother to bribe poor, weak teams? - Why are some games fixed, but not others? - Why do some leagues have more match corruption than others? The final chapter examines the most important question: - How can an honest sports administrator prevent match-fixing? The overarching thesis of the book is that most match-fixing is preventable. Fixing comes from key specific factors. Remove those factors and we can win the war against match-fixing.--