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Imitation Games

How Gambling Hijacked Sport
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Imitation Games

De : Darragh McGee
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Brought to you by Penguin.

A pioneering, eye-opening investigation into the world of online gambling, its explosive growth and the transformational impact it is having on sport, tech, individuals and society.

A little flutter. All part of the game. Get closer to the action. A familiar voice, inviting you to join the real fans and get involved.

It has never been easier to place a bet. Wall to wall adverts on repeat surround every sporting event. The smartphone in your pocket all you need to unlock a dizzying array of bets on almost any aspect of any sport.

Since its origins as a provincial cottage industry almost twenty-five years ago, UK 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.

But it didn’t have to be this way. In Imitation Games, academic and BBC New Generation Thinker Darragh McGee travels the world to tell the incredible story of the individuals and companies who brought this brave new world of betting into being (and got very rich doing so).

And he traces the devastation and destruction that gambling leaves behind it. The inadequate safeguards and the broken lives that mark the fun stopping. And proffers a series of solutions for how we can create a different future.

© Darragh McGee 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

 Addiction et guérison Psychologie Psychologie et psychiatrie Santé mentale
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    Commentaires

    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 (Oliver Bullough, author of Everybody Loves Our Dollars)
    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 (David Goldblatt, author of The Age of Football and The Game of our Lives)
    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 (Natasha Schüll, author of Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas)
    A gripping, must-read account that is as lyrically written as it is forensically researched (Rob Davies, author of Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain)
    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 (Aaron Rogan, author of Punters: How Paddy Power Bet Billions and Changed the Gambling World Forever)
    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. (Dr. Luke Clark, Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada)
    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! (Declan Hill, author of The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime and The Insider’s Guide to Match-Fixing)
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