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Fixing Football

An Insider's Account of How the World Game Went Wrong - and How to Make it Right
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Behind the spectacle of the 2026 World Cup in North America lies a story of corruption, impunity, and institutional failure.

Mel Brennan was Head of Special Projects at CONCACAF and one of five North American delegates to the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea/Japan. He watched as the organisation entrusted with the worlds game betrayed it. And unlike almost everyone else who was in the room, he decided to talk about it.

Part memoir, part expose, part manifesto, Fixing Football takes readers from Trump Tower boardrooms to World Cup congresses, tracing the corruption at the heart of world football governance and making an urgent, practical case for reform. With the tournament arriving on North American soil, Brennan argues this is the moment the sport - and the region - cannot afford to waste.
 

Mel Brennan served as Head of Special Projects for CONCACAF from 2001 to 2003, and as one of five North American delegates to the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea/Japan. He remains the highest-ranked African-American in the history of world football governance. Brennan has a PhD from the University of Stirling, and is co-author of Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics (2008) with Grant Jarvie and Tony Hwang. Fixing Football is his first solo book.

* Timed to the 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America, the biggest football event ever staged.
* Written by Mel Brennan, the highest-ranked African-American in the history of world football governance and the only former North American executive to speak on the record about what he witnessed inside CONCACAF and FIFA.
* Part memoir, part expose, part reform manifesto - takes readers inside boardrooms and World Cup congresses.
* Also published in North America as Saving Soccer, with a built-in US/Canada/Mexico market.
* Strong media and publicity angle off the back of the authors first-hand testimony and the World Cup news cycle.
Publicity:
* Featured title in Fair Play Publishings World Cup Reading Room campaign (June-July 2026).
* Media release and author interviews planned around the 2026 World Cup.

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