England captain Harry Kane after scoring against Germany at Wembley on 29 June Football is a game involving balls but the key to this summer’s UEFA European Football Championship is money. It was vividly expressed when Portugal’s captain Christiano Ronaldo…
Category: Football
A new model for English football
White Hart Lane stadium: the gap on match days between the affluence inside the ground and the surrounding area is one of the biggest in the UK. The problem with British football can be best understood by making a match…
Europe’s Super League is intangible capital’s latest triumph
Soccer fans are up in arms about plans announced on 18 April for a Super League involving Europe’s top clubs. It’s backed by 12: Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus, AC Milan, Inter Milan plus the English clubs of Arsenal,…
Mohamed Salah and the intangible economy
Egypt soccer hero Mohamed Saleh plays for Liverpool FC Liverpool’s defeat in the European Champions League final in Kiev on 26 May featured a wonder goal by Real Madrid’s Welsh striker Gareth Bale, two errors by Liverpool goalie Loris Karius…
Intangible capital and the World Cup
FIFA’s capacity to manufacture income and capital through the World Cup brand is the key factor behind the crisis in global football. Association Football as it was originally known is wrongly described as the most lasting legacy of the lost…