‘Bad behaviour trickles down’: exposing football’s integrity problem With a failure to do the right thing a consistent thread, an expert explains how we got here and how to fix it.
According to Dr Dan Hough, however, they are also indicative of a problem that particularly afflicts football: a consistent lack of integrity.
Hough is a professor of politics at the University of Sussex and the author of a book, Foul Play, about football’s integrity problem.
“I’m a football fan who sees that, while the game isn’t going to hell in a handcart, it has a whole host of problems that sometimes it doesn’t even recognise,” he says.
“Integrity is supposed to be about nudging people towards doing better things,” Hough says.
