Abstract
Transformation of sport into a tradable commodity and economic globalisation exacerbated transgressions of sport rules up to, in certain cases, naked violations of the common law. This evolution triggered economic manipulations, dysfunctions, distortions over the past four decades, i.e. a so-called dark side of sport that this chapter draws a roadmap. Such malpractices spread over an increasing set of sport disciplines. They are classified in a typology based on the sanctions enforced on to the guilty ones. A historical perspective and a guesstimate of the economic magnitude of the dark side of sport are followed, beyond the economic awareness of its development, with a call for political willingness to combat it.
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In the following, the business laws refer to a set of laws, different from one geographical and institutional context to the other, encompassing the corporate law, the trade law, the bankruptcy law, property rights and the accounting law, code or rules.
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All fans are able to distinguish the two meanings that are encapsulated in the word football. On the one hand, gridiron football where the players can bring the ball in their hands is associated with American football while, on the other hand, soccer where players are not allowed to have a contact between the ball and their hands (except the goalkeeper) which is a game that has spread worldwide under the aegis of FIFA, the international soccer federation. In the text, the word gridiron is never used. Football is commonly used wherever the context makes it explicit that it is not referred to gridiron. Otherwise soccer is used for the sake of clarity.
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In the Singapore Fomula 1 Grand Prix in 2008, the Renault team ordered Nelson Piquet Jr. to crash deliberately in order to gain a sporting advantage for his Renault teammate Fernando Alonso.
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Andreff, W. (2019). A Roadmap to Economic Violations of Sport Rules and the Law. In: An Economic Roadmap to the Dark Side of Sport. Palgrave Pivots in Sports Economics. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28456-5_1
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