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A new study explores the how the celebrity and status of professional footballers in the “Big Five” European leagues can affect both performance and pay.
A women’s European Super League was an afterthought, evidence of the sport’s increasing swallowing up the men’s game.
The failure of the ESL does not represent a victory of fans over commerce, or of culture over capitalism. It is the very existence of fans that cements football’s commercial nature.
What at first appeared as a horror story for supporters could turn out to have a happy ending.
Two days after 12 of Europe’s leading clubs broke away to launch a new competition, they appear to be back in the fold.
The British prime minister has vowed to drop a ‘legislative bomb’ on the new proposals.
From the emergence of Premier League to Cricket’s newer formats, the history of professional sport is full of breakups.
More competitive games between top soccer clubs is desirable but creating a ‘closed’ system would harm a soccer culture built on dreams, says the man who predicted the Super League two decades ago.
Everyone seems united against the new proposals, but can they really be stopped?
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Professor of Sports Law and Practice, University of Westminster
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Director of the Centre of Research and Innovation for Sport, Technology and Law, De Montfort University
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Full Professor in HRM & OB, IÉSEG School of Management
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Senior Lecturer in Sports Business, Leeds Beckett University
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Director of the Centre for Sports Economics and Law, University College Cork
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Professor of Finance & Financial Technology, University of Reading
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Senior Lecturer in Sports Journalism, Liverpool John Moores University
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Football Consultant & Visiting Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Governance in Women's Football, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Media and Journalism, University of Huddersfield
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Chair in the History of Finance and Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research, Prosperity and Resilience, Henley Business School, University of Reading
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Senior Lecturer in Law, De Montfort University
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Professor of Sport Management, University of Michigan
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Professor of Finance, University of Reading
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Professor of Management, IÉSEG School of Management
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport, Nottingham Trent University