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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Lionel Messi faces possible 22 months in jail after judge orders Barcelona star to stand trial

October 8, 2015

Barcelona star Lionel Messi learned today that he will have to stand trial on tax fraud charges, even after the prosecutor said he should be cleared earlier this week. The judge handling the case at Barcelona Provincial High Court overruled the prosecutor and turned down a request from Messi's lawyers that he should avoid trial [...]
England Euro 2016 qualification: Does a 100% record in qualifying mean anything for the tournament?

October 8, 2015

England can arrive at next year's European Championships as the only team with a 100 per cent record in qualifying if they beat Estonia and Lithuania in their remaining two games. But how often does such a successful qualifying campaign translate into tournament success? As the only European national team to have eight wins from eight [...]
Sepp Blatter suspended: Fifa bans its president and Uefa boss Michel Platini for 90 days

October 8, 2015

Sepp Blatter's hold on power at Fifa appears to be slipping after he was banned from the organisation for 90 days along with Uefa boss Michel Platini over alleged corruption. Blatter's 17-year reign at the top of football's under-fire governing body has hit its biggest crisis yet, while Platini's hopes of eventually succeeding him in [...]
Great British Bake Off 2015 final attracts bigger audience than any England Rugby World Cup game with 13.4m viewers

October 8, 2015

It turns out Britons are more in thrall to baking than brawn and prefer scrumptiousness to scrums, after last night's Great British Bake Off final attracted more viewers than any of England's games at the Rugby World Cup. England's disastrous World Cup campaign, exclusively broadcast by ITV, pulled in a peak audience of 11.6m viewers during the team's loss to [...]
Over 30,000 seats left empty at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium last season as club “overstate attendance” by 5,000 fans per game

October 7, 2015

More than 30,000 seats were left unoccupied at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium last season according to police figures which reveal the club may have exaggerated its overrall attendance by nearly 22,000. Nearly every Premier League fixture at Arsenal's 60,432 capacity home is claimed to be a sell-out, despite the most expensive matchday and season ticket prices [...]
Rugby World Cup 2015 ticket prices plummet as disappointed England fans flood secondary ticketing website viagogo

October 7, 2015

Tickets for Rugby World Cup games are plummeting in price on secondary ticket websites after England's disastrous campaign came to an abrupt end on Saturday. Depressed English rugby fans have flooded secondary ticketing website Viagogo with tickets to knock-out games that could have involved England, as well as the team's final fixture against Uruguay at [...]
First “football stock exchange” Football Index launched in UK allowing fans to trade futures in top players

October 7, 2015

Football-loving investors are being offered the chance to combine their passion with their profession on the world's first football stock market. BetIndex Ltd, a Jersey-based gambling operator, has launched Football Index, a platform for fans to act as traders by buying and selling "football futures" in the world's top 200 players. Like a typical futures [...]
Liverpool: Jurgen Klopp’s philosophy on business, leadership and football – in his own words

October 7, 2015

Charismatic former Borussia Dortmund manager Jurgen Klopp is nearing a deal with Liverpool to replace Brendan Rodgers as the club's new boss, giving Reds fans the prospect of high-voltage football and lively press conferences to look forward to. Read more: Opinion – Jurgen Klopp can restore Liverpool to the top four When Klopp took over at [...]
Will eSports be the next phenomenon to tax gambling regulators?

October 7, 2015

From relative anonymity less than a few years ago, eSports has seen an explosion in popularity, fuelled by our seemingly insatiable appetite to be entertained. From community-based amateur game-playing to competitive tournaments, eSports encompasses casual leisure users through to professional video game players. Ever since the first games consoles, we have seen the production [...]
Liverpool’s wage bill and revenue while Brendan Rodgers was in charge suggests he didn’t deserve sack

October 6, 2015

Did Brendan Rodgers deserve to be sacked as Liverpool manager? What sounds like a rhetorical question to any fan who sat through his team’s 6-1 drubbing at Stoke at the end of last season deserves closer inspection when considered in the Premier League’s wider economic context. At first glance, the figures don't look good [...]

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