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Business of Sport

Champions League deal a statement of intent by BT Sport

BT Sport will have exclusive rights to the competition – as well as the Europa League – starting the season after next.

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BT making a good job of shooting for the Sky with sport

The battle for viewers may prove costly for club and terrestrial TV fans.

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UEFA chief’s expansion plan to prevent cut in Euro qualifiers

A debate has broken out between some of world football’s leading administrators over the size of future World Cup tournaments.

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Kevin Pietersen proves comedy can be be costly in court

Where there is big money, there are also lawyers – and that basic rule is as relevant in the world of sport as it is anywhere else.

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Proof that the love of money really is the root of all evil

Penn State, which previously had one of the best college football programmes in the US, was rocked by an abuse scandal in 2011 that shook the game, and the institution, to its core.

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It’s time to recruit new ways of picking football’s future bosses

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

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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It’s time for a global crackdown to stop match-fixing

Millions of cricket fans watched the replays open-mouthed as Mohammad Asif bowled deliberate no-balls during the Lord’s Test against England in 2010.

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Don’t expect Premier price cuts while the fans keep flocking to games

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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Tokyo wins biggest Olympic race of all

The Olympics are about much more than just the Games themselves. They bring with them major repercussions in terms of the economy, culture and human rights.

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Football agents make the most of an open window

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?

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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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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Season comes at the right time for ailing bookies Ladbrokes

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

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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Take these Olympic figures with a large pinch of salt

We should advise our children to also be wary of statistics, especially those bandied about by politicians adept at massaging and manipulating them to ‘prove’ a point.

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Competition is hotting up to keep nation fit on tight budget

There’s little doubt that during extended spells of economic uncertainty, people develop an enhanced sense of budget consciousness.

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A healthy workforce equals more chance of a healthy profit

If the state of the nation’s economic health was not sufficiently bad for us to worry about, there’s also plenty of evidence to suggest that the general condition of our physical health is, at best, ropey.

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Banks open for business in the global battle to get lion’s share

Peter Sharkey writes "This tour is already guaranteed to go down in history as the Lions’ most profitable, comfortably surpassing the £4 million net profit made on the tour of South Africa in 2009."

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Scandal threat keeping the Tour de France cheap for its sponsors

Peter Sharkey writes "In Porto-Vecchio on Saturday, the Grand Depart will signal the start of the one hundredth Tour de France, a 212 kilometre opening stage hugging the island’s east coast."

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Entrepreneurs now making sure golf tourists know the score

Peter Sharkey writes "Fabio Peral and Antonio Conde realised that by applying a straightforward statistical method to the inevitably subjective process of rating golf courses and golf travel packages, they could effectively eliminate bias and rank the golf industry more effectively and objectively. And so, on June 7, Golfboo.com was born."

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Abramovich kicks the soft approach into touch at Chelsea

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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French league plays Russian roulette with Monaco

People consider Rybolovlev’s billions a threat to French football. His decision to challenge the LFP through the courts is seen as establishing an extremely dangerous precedent.

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London 2012 Olympics legacy inspires a chain reaction

A greater number of people have taken up cycling, either as social or occasional riders, commuters or holiday cyclists.

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