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A pioneering investigation into the new digital age of gambling, its explosive growth and the transformational impact it is having on sport, fandom and society. A pioneering investigation into the new digital age of gambling, its explosive growth and the transformational impact it is having on sport, fandom and society. A cheeky flutter. All part of the game. Get closer to the action. A friendly, familiar voice, inviting you to join the real fans and get involved. What harm could it do... It has never been easier to stake a bet. Wall to wall adverts have hijacked every sporting event - the mobile slot machine in your pocket all you need to enter an immersive world in which gambling is faceless and frictionless, available 24/7, on almost any aspect of any sport. Since its origins as a provincial cottage industry almost twenty-five years ago, online gambling has become a globe-straddling behemoth worth more than e10 billion a year. It can sometimes feel as if the point of sport is to bet on it. How did we get here? How did a new wave of gambling brands hijack sport on an international scale? In Imitation Games, Darragh McGee travels the globe to tell the incredible story of the digital brands who unleashed this new world of gambling onto a new generation of fans (and got very rich doing so). At the same time, he traces the harm and human cost that gambling leaves behind, and shows how we can create a different future for sport and society. Because when the fun stops, it stops hard.

About the Author :
Darragh McGee is an academic based at the University of Bath and an authority on the changing relationship between gambling and sport. He has led a decade of cutting-edge research on the growth of online sports gambling in the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa, including the public health impacts on a new generation of young people. His research and writing appear in global media outlets, including the Guardian, the BBC, and Men's Health. He holds a doctorate from the University of Toronto, Canada. He was named a BBC New Generation Thinker in 2020. Imitation Games is his first book.

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In meticulous and devastating detail, Darragh McGee reveals how football sold its fans to the gambling giants. Read this book to learn the truth about the game you love As the number of gambling related suicides, bankruptcies and family break-ups mount we at last have a book that explains how we let this happen, what the real costs of the industry are, and what sport might do about it A masterful, multi-layered account. McGee takes readers on a gripping journey through the dark machinery of modern sports betting—from punts and push notifications to data tracking, debt, and addiction, revealing how an industry built on predation has weaponized technology to exploit human vulnerability A gripping, must-read account that is as lyrically written as it is forensically researched A forensic analysis of how gambling risks consuming football whole. Imitation Games lays bare the changes that have been unfurling before your eyes. A must read for any sports fan seeking to understand how we got here Imitation Games is a detailed, authoritative and damning analysis of the rise of the sports betting industry in the UK since the early 2000s, and the impacts now seen on public health. It also lays bare how this business model continues to echo around the world, from sub-Saharan Africa, to Canada and the US – Darragh McGee’s book demands a global audience. Imitation Games is a victory for clear, driven, and socially-motivated writing. The story is statured with vivid scenes, crisp dialogue and unmatched research. All by a dashing academic who sure knows how to get out of his lecture hall and bring his readers the real world! This is a brilliant, deeply disturbing book. Carefully researched, engagingly written, it’s part social and economic history of the exponential growth of global sports betting, with closely drawn sketches of the remarkable entrepreneurs who saw the possibilities, turned the industry from horse-racing to football, and pioneered the advertising and digital technologies of continuous betting. It’s also a searing indictment of the hijacking of sports, transforming ‘the beautiful game’ into the compulsion of endless betting, deliberately addicting players, managers and fans alike, with devastating financial and family loss, including suicide. McGee’s harshest words are for the sports bodies and governments who willfully ignored the abundant evidence of gambling-related harm, blinded by the large sums of money paid by the industry. It’s an urgent read for anyone who loves sports.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781847929310
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: The Bodley Head Ltd
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 416
  • Sub Title: How Gambling Hijacked Sport
  • Width: 153 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1847929311
  • Publisher Date: 28 May 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 40 mm
  • Weight: 700 gr


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