More Than a Game

Saving Football From Itself

More Than a Game
Mark Gregory
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Hardback
h240 x 156mm - 304pg
2 Sep 2021 UK
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9781787290549
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Three lions on the shirt, grassroots underfunded. . . . A revealing and shocking analysis of the state of the English game. A top-to-bottom shakedown of England' s national game, from one of the UK' s leading business economists. The Premier League is the most commercially successful football league in history, the self-proclaimed ' best league in the world' . But success has come at a cost, unbalancing the English game to a profound and damaging degree. Football' s stumbling response to COVID-19 and the European Super League disaster are just the most recent examples. It is estimated that more than two thirds of the country' s 92 professional clubs are loss-making; payments to agents each year regularly total more than the combined income of all 44 clubs in Leagues 1 and 2; supporters have been squeezed to the limit; racist incidents are on the rise; grassroots facilities are in a dreadful state; and failed World Cup bids have severely weakened England' s standing in the global game. There is an alternative. In this revealing and eye-opening analysis, leading economist Mark Gregory reveals the breadth and depth of the problems facing the national game, and shows us a way to bring football home for good.
Mark Gregory is Ernst & Young' s Chief Economist in the UK. In a career spanning over three decades he has advised Governments and businesses in over forty countries on economic policy issues, specialising in the liberalisation, regulation and commercialisation of the telecommunications, media and technology sectors. Prior to joining EY he was Global head of Strategy for IBM' s Wireless Consulting business. For the last five years, he has led EY' s sports economics practice which has advised the Premier League, the ECB, international Cycling Union, Rugby World Cup on the economic issues affecting their sport, with a wide range of published reports. He is also an advisor to the Centre for Towns, an independent thinktank set up to increase awareness of geographic divides in the UK. He is a lifelong Stoke City supporter.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781787290549
Published: 2 Sep 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Yellow Jersey Press
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Hardback
Height: 240mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 304

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