Burnley owner ALK Capital secures £150m injection following Espanyol takeover November 3, 2025 Burnley’s owner, Alan Pace’s ALK Capital, has attracted a further £150m injection from an early backer of its Premier League project, Dave Checketts. Checketts, who enjoyed success with Pace as president of his Major League Soccer side Real Salt Lake, has invested in ALK Capital following its takeover of Spanish club Espanyol. It is among [...]
Premier League exec steps down to lead Major League Soccer challenger competition November 3, 2025 The Premier League is set to lose one of its top staff, chief football officer Tony Scholes, at the end of the season after he agreed to head up a challenger to Major League Soccer in the US. Scholes is to be president of a new top-tier competition to be launched in 2028 by the [...]
Kolisi, Villa and Diggins to advise CVC’s £10bn Global Sport Group November 3, 2025 Siya Kolisi, David Villa and Skylar Diggins are to advise CVC Capital Partners’ new £10bn consolidated portfolio, Global Sport Group, which owns stakes in several major leagues. Rugby World Cup-winning South Africa captain Kolisi, former Spain striker Villa and US women’s basketball star Diggins will form an athlete advisory group as part of a partnership [...]
Gareth Southgate sticks to business and leadership and shuns football return November 3, 2025 Sir Gareth Southgate insists he is happy to keep a return to football management on ice and focus on delivering lessons in leadership to business and wider society. Southgate walked away from the England job after eight years in 2024, having taken the team to two major finals in a spell noted for repairing the [...]
Fatter, lazier, more inactive: How businesses like Canterbury rely on healthy population November 3, 2025 Canterbury is a globally recognised brand, but it relies on a healthy population to invest in pro sports deals. By the end of the decade 3bn of us could be insufficiently active – a figure not far short of the world’s population, minus Asia, right now. It is something that Simon Rowe describes as a [...]
Single Premier League Boxing Day fixture huge opportunity for TV November 2, 2025 Boxing Day football has long been woven into the nation’s cultural fabric, with families traditionally watching multiple matches throughout the day. It is intertwined into Britain’s festive rhythm, as familiar as the Boxing Day sales. But that tradition could change if the Premier League proceeds with plans to stage just one Boxing Day fixture. By [...]
Formula 1 and The Hundred offer lessons in governance for fragmented likes of rugby November 1, 2025 To succeed, sports need governance structures that empower one entity to steer it, as in Formula 1, The Hundred and SailGP, writes Nevin Truesdale. The increasing commercialisation of sport has seen historical governance structures come under scrutiny. As in any business, governance structures are central to the ability to evolve in response to a changing [...]
Best Mobile Casinos 2025 – Best Casino Apps UK October 31, 2025 Mobile gaming has become so popular in recent years that it is actually now the most common form of online casino betting. As such, so many online casinos offer their services on mobile internet browsers and via apps, making it hard for players to establish which brands are worth joining. In the following article, players [...]
Lucas Paqueta spared fine amid mental health concerns following fixing probe October 31, 2025 Lucas Paqueta has avoided a fine despite being found guilty of not cooperating with an FA spot-fixing investigation in part because of concerns about the West Ham star’s mental health. An independent regulatory commission said that Paqueta, who was cleared of spot-fixing earlier this year, would typically have been fined but that “the truly exceptional [...]
The Hundred: New owners relax salary rules to attract top talent October 31, 2025 The Hundred’s new overseas investors have rung the changes for next year’s competition, confirming that an auction will replace the player draft and that franchises will have new maximum and minimum salary budgets. In moves designed to attract more top global talent to the summer white-ball cricket tournament, individual player salaries will be uncapped and [...]