Imitation Games
How Gambling Hijacked Sport
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Product details:
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Date of Publication 28 May 2026
- ISBN 9781847929310
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages416 pages
- Size 235x154x33 mm
- Weight 506 g
- Language English 700
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'Meticulous and devastating... Read this book to learn the truth about the game you love'
Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland
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 --10 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 a global scale? In Imitation Games, Darragh McGee travels the world 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.
'McGee takes readers on a gripping journey'
Natasha Sch--ll, author of Addiction by Design
