Middle East investment in Manchester United or Liverpool: Sports law predictions for 2023 December 29, 2022 As has become traditional at this time of year, City A.M. has called on the wisdom of Mishcon de Reya’s Simon Leaf and Tom Murray to dust off the crystal ball, don their best Mystic Meg outfits and offer their sports law predictions for next year. So here is our take on 2023 – and [...]
Best of 2022: Greg Norman explains LIV Golf’s blueprint for transforming the sport December 29, 2022 In this exclusive interview from June 2022, LIV Golf commissioner Greg Norman explains how the Saudi Arabia-backed big-money circuit plans to disrupt the sport and amplify the earning potential of the world’s top players. Greg Norman has conquered some of the world’s finest golf courses and forged a successful career as an entrepreneur but he [...]
Liverpool kick off January transfer window with £37m signing of Cody Gakpo December 29, 2022 Liverpool have fired the starting pistol on an intriguing January transfer window by confirming the £37m signing of Netherlands forward Cody Gakpo. The Reds beat rivals Manchester United to Gakpo, who arrives on a five-and-a-half year contract from his boyhood club PSV Eindhoven. “There is a lot to like about Cody,” said Liverpool manager Jurgen [...]
Sport business predictions for 2023 with Deloitte’s Tim Bridge December 28, 2022 Deloitte’s Tim Bridge looks back on the last 12 months and makes his sport business predictions for 2023. The final whistle of the men’s football World Cup concluded an epic year for sport which included the Winter Olympics, the Commonwealth Games, the Women’s Euros, the Rugby League World Cup, as well as women’s World Cups [...]
Leeds United owner Radrizzani confirms plans to sell Premier League club December 28, 2022 Leeds United owner Andrea Radrizzani has confirmed that he intends to sell the Premier League football club in the near future. US investment group 49ers Enterprises has been tipped to make it minority shareholding a majority one at the end of the current season. “Perhaps Leeds can grow further, but in the future they will [...]
Best of 2022: Michael Doughty on quitting football to found ethical brand Hylo Athletics December 26, 2022 In this interview first published in October 2022, former Premier League footballer Michael Doughty explains why he walked away from the game to set up sustainable sportswear brand Hylo Athletics. The longer that Michael Doughty’s playing career went on, the harder he found it to ignore the effects of climate change. “I saw way more [...]
Best of 2022: Sir Craig Reedie lifts the lid on how London 2012 Olympics was delivered December 23, 2022 In this interview from July 2022, Sir Craig Reedie, one of the architects of the London 2012 Olympics and one of Britain’s most influential sports administrators, looks back on the Games 10 years on. If you lived through the London 2012 Olympics then you will probably remember where you were for its most spectacular or [...]
ECJ strikes major blow for Uefa and Fifa in legal battle over European Super League December 15, 2022 Three of football’s biggest clubs have suffered a major blow to their hopes of reviving a breakaway Super League at the European Court of Justice. In a recommendation issued by an advocate general this morning that followed a hearing at the ECJ in July, the court has been advised to side with governing bodies Uefa [...]
European Super League: Will ECJ resurrect breakaway or prove final nail in its coffin? December 14, 2022 Abandoned by most of its supporters in the face of widespread outcry, tied up in red tape, and then undermined by the financial problems of its remaining backers, the European Super League has never looked more dead. But the controversial breakaway football competition could be dramatically resurrected on Thursday when an advocate general delivers their [...]
Ed Warner: Is Infantino a moonbeam or a clown? Either way, Fifa boss is here to stay December 1, 2022 Gianni Infantino. Moonbeam or clown? Flibbertigibbet? Certainly. Problem-solver, or problem to be solved? All depends on where you are coming from – quite literally. Just don’t expect Fifa’s demon/angel (delete according to taste) president to be going anywhere soon. Most likely not until 2031. Football’s Swiss-Italian head honcho has been front and centre of the [...]