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Drugs, cartels, mafia, addiction, the FBI, and coercion - this is the untold story behind the tragic decline of football's most gifted and controversial legend. Maradona was football's ultimate genius - a magician on the pitch whose talent rivalled only Pelé. But off the field, the boy from the...

Bloomsbury presents Ultra: The Underworld of Italian Football by Tobias Jones, read by Adam Bromley. Winner of the Daily Telegraph Football Book of the Year Ultras are often compared to punks, Hell's Angels, hooligans or the South American Barras Bravas. But in truth, they are a thoroughly...

I chose violence. Not because I had to. Because I wanted to. I didn’t grow up in the streets. I grew up on a wealthy island outside Stockholm. And I still chose this life. This is the true story of how I became part of one of Europe’s most feared football firms and what it actually felt like to be there. Not written by a journalist. Not based on rumours. I lived it. I took on a leading role within an AIK sub-group connected to the main firm, moving through a world that stretches across Sweden and into Europe. Sweden’s hooligan scene is not what people think. It’s not chaos. It’s not random.

According to investigative journalist Dan E. Moldea, for decades the National Football League has had a strong and unspoken understanding with a dangerous institution: Organized crime. In his classic expos, Interference, Moldea bares the dark, sordid underbelly of America's favorite professional team sport, revealing a nest of corruption that the league has largely ignored since its inception.