By: Joe Hall

I'm a sports and sports business journalist with City A.M. Follow me for coverage of the industry behind sports and the money made by top athletes. I've provided expert commentary on sports business for both TV and radio, including the BBC World Service. My email is always open to tips and story ideas: joe.hall@cityam.com

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Nicola Sturgeon on Brexit: In/out EU referendum must have “double majority” rule

May 26, 2015

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has slammed Tory austerity measures and reaffirmed her party's commitment to staying in the EU in her first major economic speech since the election. Speaking to business leaders at Heart of Midlothian's Tynecastle Stadium, Sturgeon said the SNP would propose a "double majority" on the vote, in which each of the [...]
Cineworld predicts Star Wars and James Bond to deliver further box office growth

May 26, 2015

The figures Online streaming may be on the rise, but the lure of the silver screen is still strong if Cineworld's last 19 weeks are anything to go by. The UK cinema operator saw total group revenue rise 26.8 per cent for the 19 weeks ended May 14, with the biggest growth enjoyed in central [...]
Ryanair share price jumps as profit soars following new customer service programme

May 26, 2015

Ryanair's share price soared this morning as it celebrated its 30th birthday with a 66 per cent increase in net profit for the year – beating analysts' expectations. The figures The low-cost carrier reported net profit of €867m (£614m) in the 12 months ended March 31 from €523m at the same period last year. Revenue rose more steadily [...]
Chelsea end of season stats: How do Eden Hazard, Cesc Fabregas and Diego Costa compare against each other?

May 25, 2015

In the end, they made it look easy. Chelsea cantered to the Premier League title with three games of the season remaining and finished off with a 3-1 cruise against Sunderland. The successful season was defined by Jose Mourinho’s consistent selection policy that rendered the identity of the Blues’ starting XI on the Stamford Bridge [...]
Could Liverpool legally let Raheem Sterling “rot in the reserves” in response to contract dispute?

May 22, 2015

When a 20-year-old footballer publicly declares he wants to leave a club and his agent hurls insults at one of its legendary players, you can forgive fans for reacting emotionally. Raheem Sterling's all-too-public wrangling over a new contract with Liverpool has turned ugly in recent days, with many fans calling on the club to come [...]
Football League Championship attendance makes it the fourth most-watched league in Europe

May 22, 2015

The Championship looks set to once again be named the fourth most-watched league in Europe, following a seven per cent increase in attendance. Read more: How Bournemouth's promotion push was funded by a Russian millionaire English football's second tier achieved a total audience of 9.9m, with an average attendance of 17,847. According to the Football League, [...]
The world’s best economics, accounting and finance universities: LSE, Oxford, Cambridge and UCL make top 20

May 22, 2015

Accounting, finance and economics – choose to study any of these subjects anywhere and you'll be likely to land a pretty good job, but get onto a course at one of world's top 10 and you can probably go ahead start browsing the property section of Fortune magazine straight away. Read more: The world's best universities [...]
Number of women FTSE 100 chief execs rises to six as Whitbread appoints Alison Brittain as chief executive

May 22, 2015

Whitbread has appointed Alison Brittain as its new chief executive, taking the total number of women chiefs on the FTSE 100 to six. The owner of Premier Inn hotels and Costa Coffee has picked the Lloyds Banking Group director to replace Andy Harrison who will retire on 16th February. Chairman Richard Baker described Brittain as [...]
UK national rail strike: Virgin Trains backtracks on cancelled services after RMT and TSSA withdraw strike action for May 25 and 26

May 21, 2015

Virgin Trains has said services will be running as normal this bank holiday Monday, a day after it cancelled all trains in response to a strike called by members of the RMT and TSSA unions. The strike was called off this afternoon, with both RMT and TSSA unions saying they needed to put Network Rail's [...]
Is the Network Rail train strike cancelled? TSSA suspends action as RMT mulls improved offer

May 21, 2015

The Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) has said it has suspended its planned bank holiday strike after receiving an improved offer from Network Rail bosses. However, as things stand, workers at the bigger RMT union – which has five times the number of members as TSSA – is still going ahead with the planned 24-hour [...]

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