Add Your Blog | | Signup
16 followers
Commentary on the management of English football clubs by Dr John Beech
Invite Friends to Follow Syndication
Written by 1 Author
John Beech
Followed by 16 People (invite friends)

Football Management

English - Football, Soccer, Management
http://footballmanagement.wordpress.com/
Football Management · 1W ago

Deconstructing Peter Lorimer

Peter Lorimer’s thoughts on fans being on the boards of football clubs (1) were, at least as reported by the BBC, somewhat confusing and even confused. Certainly his assertion that he does not envisage a member of the Supporters Trust having a place on the Leeds United board is hardly a surprise giv
0 Vote Up · Share
Football Management · 1M ago

Why I shall be especially grumpy this Saturday afternoon

“Football clubs ‘in poor financial health’” a headline on the BBC News website has just screamed (1).  Apparently “many clubs are continuing to spend too much, principally on players’ wages, as they always have done”.  What?  Surely not?  Well, OK, the said headline was in the Business section of th
0 Vote Up · Share
Football Management · 2M ago

The new broken-time payments

The decision by UEFA to increase significantly the compensation fee paid to clubs for releasing their players to play in Euro 2012 (1) – for Euro 2008, the total compensation was €43.5 million; for Euro 2012 a total of €55 million had been proposed, but the figure is now to be €100 million (£83.4 mi
0 Vote Up · Share
Football Management · 3M ago

The Tax Man cometh…

There can be no doubt that the abbreviation HMRC is one which has hit pretty well every football fan’s radar screen recently.  There have been the two big Administrations at Portsmouth and Rangers.  Bubbling away in the background is not only the issue of whether clubs’ use of Employment Benefit Tru
0 Vote Up · Share
Football Management · 3M ago

That feeling of déjà vu at Pompey, all over again

Portsmouth’s return to Administration today (1) for the second time in a smidgen under two years speaks volumes, especially coming in the week that Rangers, a rather more iconic club, suffered the ignominy of Administration too (2).  High profile those these events are, the phenomenon of financial p
0 Vote Up · Share
Football Management · 3M ago

That elusive number of insolvent football clubs

Today’s breaking news makes for grim reading. First there are the reports that Portsmouth is to go into Administration again (1).  With the club’s bank account now frozen, players and other staff unpaid, and an early parachute payment in the offing, this comes as no great surprise. Meanwhile, North
0 Vote Up · Share
Football Management · 3M ago

The Magic of Football – still there in the Cups?

It’s increasingly difficult to see any magic in the beautiful game other than black magic, especially when you look at it from a financial perspective.  You only need to think of the narrow escapes at Plymouth and Wrexham recently, and both Portsmouth and Darlington are standing on the edge of the p
0 Vote Up · Share
Football Management · 4M ago

2011 – The Year in Insolvency Events

Below is a round-up of the insolvency events I have logged during 2011.  The definition of insolvency event is a debatable one, and I prefer a descriptive rather than prescriptive one.  Broadly I would define an insolvency event as one which reflects a discontinuity in the operation of the ‘club as
0 Vote Up · Share
Football Management · 5M ago

Round the Lower Levels Part 2

At last, Part 2 of my overview of what is happening from a broad financial perspective.  Part 1 ran alphabetically up to Prescot Cables, and is available here.  With a slight jump backwards, we pick it up with: Port Vale An interesting case of ‘fan ownership’.  Valiant 2001 bought the club from the
0 Vote Up · Share
Football Management · 5M ago

Pompey and the potential for points deduction

Having carefully got through as far as Prescot Cables in the first half of my round up of clubs in trouble below the Premier League, I had rather assumed that I could at least get Part 2 published before returning to the subject of Portsmouth.  Clearly that was not meant to be.  So here are [...]
0 Vote Up · Share
More Stories
More