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Anelka 'quenelle' row shows image is crucial to sport sponsors
Opinion
What the West Bromwich Albion and Zoopla affair has shown is that sponsors are often interested in more than just results. Image, not just winning, is what defines a successful relationship.
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West Bromwich Albion enter talks with Indian firms as Zoopla pull sponsorship
Economic Development
West Bromwich Albion are in talks over partnering Indian manufacturing conglomerate Reliance Industries in the football equivalent of the money-spinning Indian Premier League cricket competition.
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TV deals to put Villa and Albion among world's richest football clubs
Economic Development
Soaring television revenue will mean the West Midlands’ two Premier League clubs will be among the 40 richest in the world next year.
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Birmingham Post Rich List 2014: No.3 - Randy Lerner (£1bn)
Economic Development
Randy Lerner became a popular figure when he put his money where his mouth is to invest in the Premier League club six years ago.
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Bolton debt must serve as warning to Premier spendthrifts
Opinion
Worst-case scenario should be built into plans of all top Premier League football clubs.
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Even rich football club owners can't ignore the fans
Opinion
Rich investors pump their money into clubs (and are often welcomed for doing so) but then think they have a plaything that they can do with what they want.
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Will changes to the rules really make a big difference to Formula One season?
Opinion
The ‘if it ain’t broke’ mantra seems to have disappeared from the world of sport.
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Begbies report says six football clubs facing critical financial pressure
Economic Development
Stark warning issued by insolvency group, which names Coventry City as one of the clubs in danger
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Champions League deal a statement of intent by BT Sport
Opinion
BT Sport will have exclusive rights to the competition – as well as the Europa League – starting the season after next.
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Councils should collect their thoughts – and all that is owed
Opinion
Among the many reasons for mistrusting the Chancellor of the Exchequer is his inability to grasp percentages.
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It’s time to recruit new ways of picking football’s future bosses
Opinion
But one leading player in the field of sports recruitment believes that unless there is a wholesale change in the way managers are appointed, the huge number of bad decisions will continue.
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Fans taking the opportunity to protect their spiritual home
Opinion
A growing number of football supporters are setting the wheels in motion in a bid to protect their clubs’ stadiums being sold against their wishes.
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Paupers take the plaudits and the title
Opinion
Just imagine a sporting world where Manchester City or Chelsea were relegated – and Norwich ended up champions.
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Don’t expect Premier price cuts while the fans keep flocking to games
Opinion
Football supporters up and down the country have no doubt been dancing jigs of delight at the news that the cost of watching live football has fallen.
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Football agents make the most of an open window
Opinion
The football industry doesn’t always operate according to business norms as the summer’s non-transfer saga has made clear.
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A future where we get our kicks for free?
Opinion
Businesses are becoming more attuned to offering their customers something worthwhile for free and generating additional revenues from a variety of other sources to offset a notional 'loss'.
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West Midlands football in good shape for EUFA's fair play rules
Banking & Finance
Midland football clubs are reining in their spending plans with new financial ‘fair play’ regulations around the corner.
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Clubs can’t expect fans to just keep on paying more to watch football
Economic Development
Accountancy group BDO claimed that up to one third of football clubs in the Championship and League One will be put up for sale over the next 12-18 months.
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West Midlands clubs 'prepared for financial fair play'
Economic Development
Report reveals clubs are preparing for rule change by trimming expenditure plans
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Season comes at the right time for ailing bookies Ladbrokes
Opinion
At around 7.30 this morning, Ladbrokes’ chief executive Richard Glyn will issue his company’s interim results with City analysts anticipating a slump in pre-tax profits to £74 million from last year’s £106.9 million.
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Insuring against success could be win-win strategy for football clubs
Opinion
Just when an unusually warm summer had succeeded in convincing many of us that a barbecue was an integral aspect of Saturday afternoon, along comes a new football season.
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Freak show’s back in town for duration
Opinion
League football is back this weekend, and frankly, the implications are a little frightful.
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Abramovich kicks the soft approach into touch at Chelsea
Opinion
Peter Sharkey writes "Jose Mourinho appeared in a blaze of flashbulbs, ready to sprinkle some much-needed stardust on an organisation widely disliked for the manner in which it has tried to assume the mantle of a ‘big club’ without necessarily appreciating the corresponding need for humility such status infers".
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Peter Sharkey: A major player comes into the market
Economic Development
Though it wasn't quite on a par with that other major sporting announcement made last week, in terms of commercial scale it was enormous, significantly affecting equity prices in two companies with a combined market value of £37 billion.
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