If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, does it make a sound? Or to put it in more modern terms, if a cryptocurrency partnership deal collapses because there was nobody on the other end, did you really have a deal? This curious eventuality happened to Manchester City FC last month, when […]
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Premier League stadiums like to have a side-venture, to keep the money coming in. For Tottenham Hotspur, it is NFL games. For Arsenal, it is rock concerts. Now that Newcastle have been majority-bought by the Saudi Arabian led consortium Public Investment Fund, sadly the public entertainment that the new owners are used to is more
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Whether you are singing le football rentre a la maison or nogomet se vraca kuci, or the original under your breath: however many years of hurt your country may have, football will be going somewhere. Whether ‘home’ or not, rather depends on your geography. But while variations on that theme will have been heard throughout
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