Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Context -- Approach -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: SINGOs - from system to crisis? -- Notes -- 1 The origins and nature of modern sport -- Notes -- 2 The consequent characteristics of international sport -- History, concepts, definitions -- The ethical claims of internationalism -- Playing with the devil: ideology and strategy -- SINGOs and the characteristics of international sport -- Notes -- 3 Alternative sources of sporting practice -- Made in the USA: American exceptionalism -- Europe: model or models? -- Conclusions (of a methodological bent) -- Notes -- 4 Founding global institutions: the origins and development of the IOC and FIFA, 1894-1938 -- The IOC and the Olympic Games -- FIFA and the World Cup -- FIFA's origins -- British intransigence -- FIFA marches on -- The IOC and FIFA in the globalisation process -- Notes -- 5 How Mercurius was finally unbound: SINGOs and twentieth-century history -- Globalisation in retreat - a more hostile environment -- One church, two creeds -- The extent and significance of Soviet success -- Mixing sport and politics -- The dam bursts -- Notes -- 6 Conceptualising INGOs and SINGOs -- The characteristics of SINGOs -- Notes -- 7 The hegemonic SINGO and the shaping of global sport: the IOC and its Olympic behemoth -- Leaders -- Who and what is the IOC? -- Golden summers: the growth of the IOC cash cow -- Transition 1: from Phase 1 to Phase 2 -- Phase 1 -- Phase 2 -- Transition 2: from Phase 2 to Phase 3 -- Issues -- Gigantism -- Drugs -- Ethics, governance and corruption -- Note on official Olympic reports -- Notes -- 8 Mega-SINGO in crisis: FIFA's collapse of confidence and credibility -- The first patrician: Rimet spreads the word -- An Englishman abroad: Rous at the helm -- Havelange and the FIFA business model