Football business : how markets are breaking the beautiful game / Tsjalle Van Der Burg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burg, Tjalle van der, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soccer--Economic aspects.

Soccer.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Infinite Ideas, 2014.

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

Contents:

Front cover; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Made in the past; Chapter 2: Money; Chapter 3: Dreams; Chapter 4: No equal chances; Chapter 5: The league system; Chapter 6: The challenge; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-909652-73-3