For the first time in history, a football club invested more than one billion euro in transfer indemnities to assemble its squad: Manchester City. Following last summer transfer window, two clubs are close to this figure: Paris St-Germain (€913 million) … Continue reading
By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw Bury FC, which was founded in 1885, has been expelled, on 27 August 2019, for financial reasons, from the English Football League (EFL) after being in the League for 125 years. It is the first … Continue reading
By Athena Constantinou, Managing Director, APC Sports Consulting, Nicosia, Cyprus Elite athletes can earn substantial amounts of income but only within the limits of a short time span of a professional career, which usually lasts between 10 -15 years. The … Continue reading
By Prof Dr Steve Cornelius, University of Pretoria, South Africa Arguably the biggest challenge for sport today is not so much the misconduct of athletes on and off the field, but rather the behaviour of spectators at sports events. Instances … Continue reading
By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw A study, published in the British Dental Journal, has shown that elite athletes have bad teeth despite generally looking after them more than other people. Scientists at University College London (UCL) interviewed 352 British athletes, … Continue reading
In the Dutch Parliament, questions have been asked about possible prohibited state aid provided by The Netherlands to Nike. This relates to the investigation started by the European Commission. The European Commission has doubts about certain aspects of the tax … Continue reading
One of the largest Dutch banks, the Rabobank, announced that it will not accept professional soccer clubs as new clients anymore. It is estimated that 80% of the Dutch professional soccer clubs are currently clients of the Rabobank and they can stay … Continue reading
By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw From media and other accounts, racism in football – at the elite and also at the grass roots levels – continues to rise, despite the efforts of the football authorities to ‘kick it out’ of … Continue reading
By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw A new University Academy (UA92) has been set up, in collaboration with Lancaster University, by former Manchester United ‘stars’ of the class of 1992, Gary Neville, Phil Neville, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt. … Continue reading
The following is an extract from the Deloitte’s Sport’s Business Group News Release of 8 August 2019, following the closing of the English Premier League 2019 Summer Transfer Window at 17 00 hours on the same date: The 2019 summer … Continue reading