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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Rangers share offer: club targets £4m boost

August 29, 2014

Rangers are expecting to raise just under £4m through an open offer of 19m shares made available to existing shareholders. In a stock exchange announcement, the club said the open offer formed part of “a strategic plan” to “rebuild and re-establish the club” and will contribute to the £20m to £30m funds they are [...]
Liverpool sign more players than any other Premier League club, Arsenal joint lowest

August 29, 2014

Brendan Rodgers has been the busiest Premier League manager this summer, bringing 11 new faces to Liverpool – more new signings than Manchester United and Chelsea combined. With four days remaining in the transfer window, no other Premier League club has accumulated more players than last season’s runners-up. In fact, eight per cent of [...]
Champions League draw: Arsenal meet Dortmund once again as Liverpool handed tough Real Madrid test

August 28, 2014

Arsenal have been drawn in the same Champions League group as Borussia Dortmund for the third time in four years, as Liverpool face two tough ties against Real Madrid in their return to the competition. Chelsea have been drawn against Schalke for their second year in a row in group G alongside Sporting Lisbon and [...]
Newcastle’s Jack Colback and Arsenal’s Calum Chambers two of four uncapped players named in latest England squad

August 28, 2014

Roy Hodgson has named four uncapped players, including Arsenal’s Calum Chambers, in a youthful England squad for the forthcoming fixtures against Norway and Switzerland. Alongside Chambers, Aston Villa’s Fabian Delph, Newcastle United’s Jack Colback and Tottenham’s Danny Rose have been called up to the national side for the first time. England face Norway [...]
Counterstrike gamer’s Twitch live stream crashed by SWAT team in remarkable video

August 28, 2014

The stranger side of Amazon's recent acquisition, Twitch: a professional gamer’s live streaming session was crashed by a SWAT team, a surreal event captured in a remarkable YouTube video. Jordan Mathewson, who games under the alias “Kootra”, found himself the unfortunate victim of a prank known in the gaming community as “swatting”. According [...]
Michel Platini won’t run against Sepp Blatter in Fifa presidency election

August 28, 2014

Michel Platini will not run against Sepp Blatter for the presidency of Fifa, it has emerged today. The current Uefa president and former France footballer had been considering a bid for the leadership of football's governing body, which he described in June as being in need of a "new breath of fresh air". [...]
Warren Buffett and Floyd Mayweather square off ahead of Maidana rematch

August 27, 2014

Warren Buffett appears to be the latest member of Floyd Mayweather's "The Money Team", making him "teammates" with Justin Bieber. Mayweather, the pound-for-pound best boxer in the world, posted an image of Buffett visiting him at his gym to his Instagram page, accompanying it with a caption describing Buffett as "the original founder of The [...]
Crystal Palace appoint Neil Warnock as Tony Pulis’ replacement

August 27, 2014

Crystal Palace have made Neil Warnock their new manager, 13 days after parting ways with Tony Pulis. Warnock returns for a second stint as Palace manager, after a three year spell in the Selhurst Park dugout came to an end in March 2010. The former Leeds United, Queen’s Park Rangers and Sheffield United [...]
Doctor Who returns: Can Peter Capaldi command record viewers in series 8?

August 23, 2014

It's back. At 7:50pm tonight, Doctor Who returns to our screens, albeit in a brand new guise. Well over a year after the 12th Doctor was revealed to be Peter Capaldi, Whovians will finally get their first real taste of the new man after being teased with a snippet at the end of the Day of [...]
Puma buys stake in Borussia Dortmund as club expect to raise over €100m from stock issue

August 22, 2014

Borussia Dortmund could raise over €100m of fresh capital after issuing 24.5m shares valued at €4.66 (£3.73) each. The Bundesliga club is hoping to raise around €140m (£112m) from the share issue, which will be used to bring down debt and improve financial resilience, and could potentially fund future investments. Although the club has made [...]

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