Exclusive: Three nations in €100m battle for new SailGP franchise December 3, 2025 Three nations are locked in a €100m battle to join the SailGP grid as the sailing series expands to 14 teams, City AM can reveal. The fifth season of the competition concluded at the weekend in Abu Dhabi with British team Emirates GBR winning their first title. And the 12-team sailing competition will expand to [...]
MI London and Sunrisers Leeds: All Hundred deals completed December 3, 2025 All eight deals for Hundred franchises have been completed after the Ambani family concluded negotiations with Surrey CCC. Six of the eight deals in the short-form competition, which saw eight 49 per cent stakes owned by the England and Wales Cricket Board sold to overseas investors, were completed earlier this year but two deals remained [...]
Rugby league club Salford Red Devils liquidated after 150 years December 3, 2025 Super League club Salford Red Devils have been liquidated, ending the club’s 152-year existence, amid debts of £4m. The club was wound up at a hearing at the Insolvency and Companies Court of the Royal Court of Justice in London on Wednesday morning after four adjournments at previous hearings. Salford Red Devils were taken over [...]
Why Britain is a nation of bad sports investors December 3, 2025 Britain loves sport, but our approach to funding it is fundamentally flawed. We spend heavily on pitches, clubs and community programmes, yet much of that money vanishes into a black hole of short-term fixes. Simply put, we are bad sports investors because we treat funding as charity rather than a catalyst for growth. It’s not [...]
Record £60m day at Tattersalls December Mares Sale December 3, 2025 Sales totalling £60m saw the Tattersalls December Mares Sale break the European auction record for the highest grossing day of horse sales. Barnavara became the highest priced filly in the world this year when Sugar Whiskey Trading beat off rivals to realise a winning bid of 4.8m guineas (£5m), while Porta Fortuna was sold to [...]
Sheffield Wednesday: Joint bid could win £30m fight for crisis-hit club December 3, 2025 A number of the six bidders for Sheffield Wednesday are considering joining forces as competition to buy the Championship club hots up. Administrator Begbies Traynor has set an initial deadline of this Friday to begin exclusive negotiations with a preferred bidder, but with a number of credible offers on the table that timeline is likely [...]
ITV launches £80m bid for rugby’s Nations Championship December 2, 2025 Rugby union’s inaugural Nations Championship looks set to be shown on free-to-air television after ITV bid more than £80m. If successful, every Six Nations match and Nations Championship fixture will be terrestrial TV in the UK until at least 2029. The broadcaster has been in competition with TNT Sports, the early favourites to land the [...]
Hire process for Kogan to Independent Football Regulator like ‘mafia appointment’ December 2, 2025 The selection of David Kogan as chair of the Independent Football Regulator has been likened to a “mafia appointment in Sicily sometime in the 1950s” at a committee hearing in Parliament. Conservative MP Simon Hoare, chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, made the claim during a hearing discussing William Shawcross’s report into [...]
Bidvest directors suffer shareholder revolt over $59,000 Olympics expenses claim December 2, 2025 Three directors of Bidvest Group Ltd, South Africa’s largest conglomerate, have suffered a shareholder revolt over $59,000 of expenses they claimed for attending the Paris 2024 Olympics. The international services, trading and distribution company noted in a stock exchange statement this week that shareholders had rejected calls to reimburse the chairman and two non-executive directors [...]
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