BBC should be aggregator of best free sports content – or risk sinking for good Sport Business YouTube serves up live sport galore so why can’t the BBC do the same, with a more selective approach that fulfils its public service remit, asks Ed Warner. I’ve no problem with paying £180 for my annual TV licence. Gets me Celebrity Traitors and Blue Lights, after all. Plus the Shipping Forecast to wake up [...]
West Ham on hook for £5m despite Potter’s Swede pick-me-up Sport Business West Ham will not receive any financial benefit from Sweden’s surprise appointment of Graham Potter, who is still set to bank around £5m in compensation after being sacked by the struggling Hammers last month. Most Premier League clubs only pay compensation – in the form of monthly salary payments – to sacked managers until they [...]
Manchester United have got it right where Jaguar rebrand got it wrong Sport Business Manchester United are showing Jaguar that inclusivity is about doing, not just showing, through their action on prostate cancer, writes Matthew Fletcher-Jones. It’s been a good week or so for football. Promotion for England and Wales in the Nations League (a format innovation that actually works), a Premier League weekend with the champions in ‘crisis’, [...]
Carsley hands uncapped duo first call-ups in final England squad November 7, 2024 Newcastle left-back Lewis Hall and Southampton centre-back Taylor Harwood-Bellis have received their first England call-ups in interim boss Lee Carsley’s final squad. Hall has impressed for Newcastle this season, playing in all 10 Premier League games and could provide an answer to England’s left-back problems. Harwood-Bellis has also been an ever-present for Saints and has [...]
Lay off Lee Carsley – he deserves credit not mockery for taking risks October 14, 2024 Gareth Southgate was pilloried for not experimenting enough as England manager and now Lee Carsley is getting the same treatment for doing the opposite. It’s a funny old game. One of the big problems with international football is scarcity, although expansion-happy governing bodies may soon see to that. The relative infrequency of matches from which [...]