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A jaw-dropping tale of power and ego going unchecked * Times, Best Sports Books of the Year 2020 * I read it in one sitting, it's a superb book ... I urge people to buy it and read it even if you're not interested in football -- Eamon Dunphy * The Stand * A cracking read ... [An] incredible amount of jaw-dropping detail -- Matt Cooper The most important Irish sports book of the year and most significant book on Irish life itself ... Exceptional * Irish Daily Mail * A superb piece of investigative journalism, in which a tale of tawdry venality is told with wit, verve, and just the right amount of disbelief -- Fintan O'Toole * Irish Times, Best Books of 2020 * Excellent * Irish Sun * Part thriller, part warning from history, part social diary, Champagne Football is a forensic and often tragicomic investigation into the biggest story in Irish sport. It's a fantastic read -- Malachy Clerkin * Irish Times, Sports Books of the Year 2020 * Fantastic ... The best book I've ever read about Irish football -- Ken Early * Second Captains * A damming account ... brilliantly detailed * Sunday Independent * Jaw-dropping -- Joe Duffy One of the most hotly-anticipated sport books of the year -- Brendan O'Connor A jaw-dropping story ... brilliant * Irish Times * Essential reading * Irish Daily Star * Compelling and often side-splittingly hilarious * Guardian * An absolutely extraordinary book -- Eoin McDevitt * Second Captains * Stellar work * Irish Independent * An extraordinary story of what happens when proper governance doesn't exist * Sunday Times * An astonishing expose -- Martin Ziegler * The Times * An instant classic, one of the all-time great Irish sports books ... Terrific -- Alan English * via Twitter * A masterpiece -- Tommy Martin * via Twitter * Remarkable. The desperate story of Irish football but also a book about how Ireland works. Outstanding -- Dion Fanning Utterly COMPELLING ... I can't decide if Delaney is a machiavellian mastermind or a lucky chancer -- Marian Keyes * via Twitter * Made my blood boil -- Des Cahill Absolutely superb ... Good old fashioned gumboot journalism and a rollicking good read -- Paul Howard * via Twitter * Fantastic ... A real page-turner -- Marie Crowe * Game On * The Irish sports book of the year * Balls.ie * Excellent ... includes staggering detail * Daily Mail * Astonishing ... It reads like an outrageous work of fiction with a scarcely believable cast of characters * Business Post * Brilliant ... Easily the Irish sports book of the year * Hot Press * The most important book ever written about Irish sport ... This is the must-read of 2020 * RTE Culture * Astonishing ... One of the most important books published in this country. If you wanted to change Ireland, you would need to read this book -- Dion Fanning * The Currency * A monumental piece of writing and investigation, a work that will go down as Irish sporting history's Woodward & Bernstein moment * Irish Examiner *

A jaw-dropping tale of power and ego going unchecked * Times, Best Sports Books of the Year 2020 * I read it in one sitting, it's a superb book ... I urge people to buy it and read it even if you're not interested in football -- Eamon Dunphy * The Stand * A cracking read ... [An] incredible amount of jaw-dropping detail -- Matt Cooper The most important Irish sports book of the year and most significant book on Irish life itself ... Exceptional * Irish Daily Mail * A superb piece of investigative journalism, in which a tale of tawdry venality is told with wit, verve, and just the right amount of disbelief -- Fintan O'Toole * Irish Times, Best Books of 2020 *

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Mark Tighe (Author) Originally from Donegal, Mark Tighe is the legal correspondent of The Sunday Times in Ireland. As well as covering legal affairs, he specialises in investigative reporting. He was Irish newspaper news reporter of the year in 2018 and 2019. In 2019 he also won the Journalist of the Year award for his reporting on the FAI. Paul Rowan (Author) Born and raised in Dublin, Paul Rowan is the Irish football correspondent for The Sunday Times, and the author of The Team That Jack Built. In 2019 he was joint winner of the NewsBrands Campaigning Journalism and Investigative Journalism awards (alongside Mark Tighe and Colin Coyle) for his work on the FAI.

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