Many sports leagues have salary caps and drafts to maintain competition, but they not only hurt players but aren't that effective at keeping fans.
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Structural inequalities within all levels of British football need to be tackled in order to get more Asians playing the game.
Everyone can stop talking about money for a few months. But expect more records to be set next year.
In 25 years of the Premier League, things have changed, but it's an ongoing battle.
Summer spending across English Premier League football clubs has been jaw-dropping.
World soccer is the story of hyper-capitalism. What would fan and revolutionary thinker Frantz Fanon have thought about the state of the sport?
Is it time the Premier League developed an on-demand, Netflix-style football watching service?
The French manager brought flair and fitness to the home of football.
Ten months after guiding outsiders Leicester to the Premier League title – arguably the greatest shock in the history of the English game – the club’s manager has been unceremoniously sacked.
Scottish football faces challenging economic conditions, but shows how a focus on fans offers a different way forward.
Football is becoming an increasingly important weapon in Britain's soft power arsenal.
Football isn’t what it used to be. In Australia, they don’t even know what football is actually called (it’s not soccer). But what’s even stranger is football has become very popular in countries that…
The Premier League may well be flying, but right now, English football is dying.
Biggest signing in football history aims to restore gloss to the sport's biggest brand.
Some have questioned whether the England captain should be in the starting squad – here's how Rooney compares to his rivals.
If there was a Brexit smaller clubs lower down the league structure would likely struggle to get the best talent.
There is no point in trying to explain how it happened – we just need to enjoy it.
Cricket, which has aspirations to become a global game despite the limitations of its growth trajectory along the lines plotted by the old British Empire, may shrink back to a few strongholds.
Labour hasn't made any new evident spending pledges for sports. Is it failing to see sport as a crucial part of culture?
The big beasts of European club football have missed a chance to make a Champions League style land grab from the sport's governing body.
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Professor of Sports Enterprise, University of Salford
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Leicester
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Research Fellow in Consumption, Leeds Beckett University
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Former PhD Researcher, Heriot-Watt University
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Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Management, Anglia Ruskin University
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of International Politics, University of Western Australia
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Director, Centre for Sports Business, University of Salford
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Professor of Sports Analytics, University of Salford
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Senior Research Fellow in Sociology of Sport, University of Brighton
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Professor of Computer Science and Provost/CEO/PVC, University of Nottingham
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Chair of Sport and Head of the Academy of Sport, University of Edinburgh
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Principal Lecturer in Journalism, University of Brighton
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Lecturer in Sports and Exercise Science, Swansea University
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Professor of Communications, Howard University
