The book came out in 1993. The original book, The Politics of Sport, came seven years earlier and set a trend. The book has lost its relevance because the USSR and apartheid have disappeared and states matter less and global organisations more. An Analysis and Defence. It talks about the need to bring back the amateur ideals through the government, sports bodies, educational system and the individual.
Amateurism is as much about joy and honour of participation in sport as about money.
For amateur values to survive there has to be money in the sport. The problem with cricket both at the international and county levels is that it has the wrong kind of amateur values without the kind of rewards that gives a player life-long security. As a result, the worst abuses of professionalism return to haunt the game. The disparity between official earnings of cricketers, I include Indian ones who get those lucrative modelling assignments, and European soccer players is too huge to be ignored. There is a view that amateur ideals perished in the Olympics after Juan Antonio Samaranch became president of the International Olympic Committee.