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- Football: Inevitable slip from glorious Cup to tin-pot tat
- Tuesday night at St Andrew's. Silent night. Once, the old ground would have been reverberating with FA Cup fever. The old First Division versus top of the Second Division in a replay. Compelling stuff. The reality was that Birmingham against Reading was more like Tuesday torpor. When...
- Research articles 2006-02-12
- THE INTERVIEW: PETER KENYON; The colour of money is blue
- Beneath a blue plaque that pays homage to the Shed end, Peter Kenyon, the most influential marketer in British sport, stands and poses for the camera. Well before the Chelsea chief executive's time, the terrace legend Micky Greenaway would stand in a nearby spot and lead the blue and white...
- Research articles 2005-10-31
- Soc: United fans vow war of attrition against Glazer
- AAP Sports News Australia 05-13-2005 Soc: United fans vow war of attrition against Glazer By Robert Woodward LONDON, May 13 Reuters - Manchester United fans promised a war of attrition against Malcolm Glazer after the...
- Research articles 2005-05-13
- UK media/soccer relationships on the rocks.(Finance & Business)
- Series of announcements last month indicate that love affair between soccer teams and UK media companies first kindled in late 1990s has ended. BSkyB has sold its entire 9.9 per cent stake in the world's most high profile soccer team, Manchester United, for 62m. Manchester United...
- Research articles 2003-11-01
- Red Devils stake sells - fires up the rumours.
- Oct 07, 2003 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) UK pay-TV group, British Sky Broadcasting BSkyB, has sold its 10 interest in Manchester United. The company sold 25 million shares in the British soccer club on 7 October 2003 at 239 pence each,...
- Research articles 2003-10-21
- Media, sports moguls mull Manchester play.(Kicking The Tires)
- An Irish horseracing tycoon, a Dutch TV mogul, a Russian billionaire and an American football team owner walk onto a field ... What sounds like the setup to a joke is, in fact, just part of the intrigue surrounding a possible takeover...
- Research articles 2003-10-13
- More cryptic than Cubic, Irish investors play defensive game
- John Magnier pictured and JP McManus must be giving the Manchester United board a headache. They become the club's biggest shareholders last week with a stake between them of 23.15 per cent. That has been built up gradually since July 2001, but the big push came when Cubic bought BSkyB's...
- Research articles 2003-10-12
- SOC: BSkyB sells entire stake in Manchester United
- AAP Sports News Australia 10-07-2003 SOC: BSkyB sells entire stake in Manchester United LONDON, Oct 7 Reuters - Speculation of a Manchester United takeover intensified further today after pay TV company BSkyB sold its entire 9.9 percent stake in the...
- Research articles 2003-10-07
- World markets: London
- The FTSE 100 closed flat as investors braced for an onslaught of US corporate results, although shares in the broadcaster Granada surged after its merger with its smaller rival Carlton was approved. Market talk throughout the session was dominated by speculation over the future of Manchester United, up 5.4 per...
- Research articles 2003-10-08
- Manchester United Seeks New Public Relations Firm as Takeover Rumors Swell.
- By Patrick Tooher, Financial Mail on Sunday, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 2--Manchester United, the world's richest football club, has put its public relations account out to tender for the first time since it became a quoted company 12 years ago....
- Research articles 2003-02-02
- Muscling in on money machine.
- Feb 24, 2002 The Sunday Times ABIX via COMTEX -- The soccer industry in Italy, renowned as possibly the most "technically challenging" in the world, is in trouble. Many clubs are in severe financial peril, as are many in Spain, and many also in...
- Research articles 2002-02-26
- Football: Anelka missing from squad as Reid waits on answer
- NICOLAS ANELKA went missing from Paris St-Germain's squad at the weekend as Sunderland wait for an answer about a move back to the Premiership for the striker. The troubled player was officially injured for the French League Cup game at Troyes, but sources at PSG say he...
- Research articles 2001-12-03
- Melanie Johnson accepts undertakings from BSkyB.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 August 2001-UK GOLD: Melanie Johnson accepts undertakings from BSkyB C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02082001 Melanie Johnson, Minister for Competition, Consumers and Markets, announced today that she had accepted undertakings from British Sky Broadcasting Group BSkyB in...
- Research articles 2001-08-02
- Football: Ferguson ahead of the field in Old Trafford power struggle
- ENOCH POWELL'S observation that all political careers ultimately end in failure might equally apply to football managers. You think of Sir Alf Ramsey seeing out his days attempting to revive a hopelessly mediocre Birmingham City. Or Brian Clough, the great dictator, leaving the City Ground in tears...
- Research articles 2001-07-20
- Football: Fanzone - New scheme opens shares floodgates
- FOOTBALL fans are buying their clubs' shares in record numbers following the launch this month of the Supporters Direct initiative. Fans of football giants like Manchester United and Celtic right down to non-Leaguers Aylesbury United and Enfield have been rushing to claim both a stake and a...
- Research articles 2000-09-17
- ANALYSIS: Football's nail-biting finish
- The Craven Arms near Coventry was witness to delirious scenes one sunny afternoon in June 1996. While the subject was football, this had nothing to do with cheering fans. In fact, the celebrations were confined to a group of five smartly dressed businessmen whose euphoria attracted the attention of the...
- Research articles 2000-04-02
- Man Utd positive over TV rights as BSkyB looks set to lose monopoly
- THE TELEVISION rights to live coverage of premiership matches from 2001 will be split between several operators, with BSkyB, the satellite broadcaster, losing its monopoly, Manchester United said yesterday. Reporting half-year results, the world's most valuable club said the talks over coverage, due to begin next month,...
- Research articles 2000-03-29
- SOC: Murdoch s Sky given club limit
- AAP Sports News Australia 03-07-2000 SOC: Murdoch s Sky given club limit LONDON, March 7 AAP - Rupert Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting BSkyB TV network has reportedly been told by the English soccer Premier League that a limit is to...
- Research articles 2000-03-07
- Sports Letter: BSkyB and Manchester United
- Sir: Following your article on the involvement of media companies in football clubs ("NTL's share deal fuels TV war", 26 January), I would like to clarify the situation with regard to BSkyB and Manchester United. In particular, I would like to make it clear that BSkyB does not act as...
- Research articles 2000-02-02
- Football: Guilty: For offences to soccer's oldest knockout event and
- FOOTBALL historians will look back on 1999 as the Year of the Fan. Supporter power has made huge advances in the past 12 months, despite the worst efforts of Premier League chairmen to hang on to the rip-off culture that sullies the name of our national game. ...
- Research articles 1999-12-26
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