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October 2005

Last updated 15 October 2005

  • Concerns about greed in football grow. 1 and 2

  • Is Real Madrid the biggest money maker in football? 1 and 2

  • Rugby teams seek payments for British Lions players.

    • September 2005

  • English cricketers to cash in on their success?

  • Price of English football match tickets scares people away.

  • Ten years after the move to professional status, what next for rugby?

  • Roger Federer: a massive commercial property?

  • Arsenal makes record profits.

    • August 2005

  • Amateur snowboarders given the chance to turn professional.

  • Kenyans call for private sector involvement in football.

  • Public expresses concern about the influence of ‘money men’ on sport.

  • Chelsea bid to oust the old order in English football.

    • REFERENCE MATERIAL
      SOSOL carries a further study of the commercialisation of sport.
      There is an interesting John Hudson article online which shows the problems which arise with the commercialisation of soccer in the UK, and suggests some solutions.
      Check out the Athens Olympics website for details on their commercial development around sponsorship and television rights.
      The Museum of Rugby has a chronology of the (mainly Union) game, and the Rugby League Hall of Fame has a detailed accoubt of the 'Great Split' of 1895.