By: Joe Hall

I'm a sports and sports business journalist with CityAM Follow me for coverage of the industry behind sports and the money made by top athletes. I've provided expert commentary on sports business for both TV and radio, including the BBC World Service. My email is always open to tips and story ideas: [email protected]

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Nike and Apple named as most counterfeited brands in the world last year

September 5, 2014

Nike and Apple were the two most counterfeited brands in the world last year, according to the latest illicit trade report from the World Customs Organisation (WCO). Nike was the most counterfeited brand, with 1,120 cases of fraudulent Nike products being seized last year, a 48.3 per cent increase on 2012's total of 580 cases. Apple [...]
Real Madrid trump Barcelona with the highest revenue for a football club ever

September 5, 2014

Real Madrid have announced total revenue of €603.9m (£479.7m) for the 2013/14 season, a new record for a football club, beating the record set by Barcelona earlier this summer. The club has recorded a 10.9 per cent increase in revenue on the previous season's €521m, and has trumped the €530m reported by arch-rivals Barcelona in [...]
Dollar slides against euro as US job growth plummets to 142,000

September 5, 2014

US job growth came in way below expectations, with just 142,000 jobs added to the economy in August, compared with forecasts of about 230,000. It's the first time the US economy has failed to add over 200,000 jobs in seven months. Job growth dropped by 79,000 between June and July, from 288,000 to 209,000, but [...]
Armed men occupy offices of leading Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk

September 3, 2014

"Armed men" have occupied the offices of Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk, according to a news story posted to the club's official website. The story claims that Shakhtar offices in Donetsk have been occupied and requests all official correspondence be redirected to an alternative address in the city. The club states that "circumstances of [...]
Mayweather vs Pacquiao: Could the $300m dream fight could take place in 2015?

September 3, 2014

Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao is the dream fight boxing fans have been waiting for, and it could finally become a reality as soon as 2015. Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum has revealed that he is “very optimistic” that a salivating face-off between the two boxing superstars could be arranged but says that it “has [...]
Arsenal’s English core: Gunners have three times as many England players as Chelsea, but who is the most represented club in Roy Hodgson’s squad?

September 3, 2014

After Arsenal’s deadline day dash to sign Danny Welbeck from Manchester United for £16m, Arsene Wenger’s squad now has a strong domestic core running through it. Just under nine years ago Wenger named the first ever 16 man Premier League squad not to feature an Englishman, yet he could now feasibly pick six English [...]
2018 World Cup: EU countries consider boycott

September 3, 2014

The EU is considering a boycott of the 2018 Russia World Cup as a future sanction against the country's role in the Ukraine crisis. Sporting sanctions will not form part of the European Commission's debate about further action against Rusia today, which is expected to announce a ban on the purchase of Russian government bonds. [...]
Crisis, what crisis? Southampton are the Premier League’s biggest transfer window earners

September 2, 2014

After a record-breaking transfer window in which £889m was spent by Premier League teams, Southampton stand out as a club apart. The excessive fees, star names and lavish splurges may have stolen the headlines yesterday, yet while the rest of the league was busy racking up a total net spend of £438m, Saints made a [...]
Transfer window 2014 in graphs: Manchester United spend 19pc of all Premier League money, Arsenal break net spend record and Chelsea have most outgoings

September 2, 2014

The 2014 summer transfer window saw Premier League clubs spend more money than ever before as they forked out a record £889m on 163 players. The colossal transfer outlay not only dwarfs previous summer spends, but has already broken the record for total Premier League expenditure in a single season – with the January window [...]
Danny Welbeck transfer sees Arsenal record biggest net spend in history

September 2, 2014

Arsenal spent more money than ever before in this summer's transfer window, forking out £83.8m on five new players, including deadline day addition Danny Welbeck from Manchester United for £16m. Furthermore, manager Arsene Wenger didn't have to sell any star players in order to fund the splurge. Arsenal received just over £13m in transfer [...]

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