One of the world’s biggest tech investors has bought a 10% stake in Manchester City’s owners, valuing the group at nearly £4 billion.
- Professor of AfroEurasian Sport, EM Lyon Business School
The ongoing conflict between Qatar and its Gulf neighbours could be about to spill onto the football fields of northern England.
The English Premier League was established in 1992 to do exactly what it is now doing.
Arsenal’s Armenian star will not travel to Baku in Azerbaijan for the clash with Chelsea – and nor will many of the clubs’ fans.
FIFA boss Gianni Infantino wants to bring forward plans to expend the tournament from 32 to 48 countries. But it’s not going to be easy.
Rumours that West Ham’s Marko Arnautovic is heading to China in a multi-million pound deal are a classic symptom of the transfer window.
Nike has reaped a whirlwind in their latest ad campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick, but it’s the inevitable windfall they’re likely interested in.
Meet the concept of ‘individual value’.
It seems likely that football will remain a pawn in an intensifying proxy war.
Fans are shifting their consumption of the World Cup online.
Chinese football fans have gone to Russia in huge numbers – to support other nations.
Ronaldo and Messi cannot go on forever, and Neymar, Pogba and Salah are waiting in the wings.
For FIFA, the tournament is a commercial and technological opportunity.
Bots, brand jackers, big shots, as well as traditional businesses all bossed the Super Bowl social media space.
A delicate truce between North and South Korea has been reached in the run up to the Winter Olympics. It’s a high profile win for an event which is struggling to remain relevant.
Russian officials will be hoping that excitement about one of the world’s biggest sporting events generates some goodwill for the country.
The football club has long been central to Catalan identity and is central to the region’s independence vote.
It’s all to do with PSG’s Qatari owners.
It’s not all about United and City – sport defines Greater Manchester, boosts the economy and is essential to the overall health of the region.
There’s a good reason why Tony Blair and David Cameron were keen to boast about their footballing allegiances – Theresa May should take note.
Multiple ownerships, mega-transfers and a foot in the door at FIFA. Beijing’s bid for football power is a challenge to world soccer.
Brazilian football club Chapecoense were en route to their first Copa Sudamericana final when their plane crashed, killing all but six on board.
Football is becoming an increasingly important weapon in Britain’s soft power arsenal.
Sell-out product ‘drops’ are the new way that brands get millennials hooked on their goods.
As United and City go head-to-head in their first encounter of the football season, their rivalry reaches new levels on and off the pitch.
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