Football business : how markets are breaking the beautiful game /
The public face of football finance is the exponential rise of players' wages, ludicrous transfer fees and escalating ticket prices. Season tickets at some north London clubs are already pushing £2,000. But the real picture is much more worrying. Clubs operate in a global market for sponsorship...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Infinite Ideas,
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | The public face of football finance is the exponential rise of players' wages, ludicrous transfer fees and escalating ticket prices. Season tickets at some north London clubs are already pushing £2,000. But the real picture is much more worrying. Clubs operate in a global market for sponsorship and television rights and the competition is fiercer off the pitch than it is on it. The beautiful game has been defiled by commercialism and greed. The fans are becoming increasingly irrelevant to the business of football as their great, historic clubs face crises caused by massive debt and incompetent. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America EBSCO eBook Business Collection |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (157 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781909652736 1909652733 9781909652729 1909652725 |
