Sports franchises

As part of the trend of business/financial matters steadily taking over the headlines in the sports world, the word ‘franchise’ has been featuring significantly in the cricket and football media in the last week or two. Two big stories which have come out in this period and are still developing as we speak concern the young whippersnapper of cricket- 20/20- and its powerbrokers in the Indian Premier League (IPL). One concerned the global expansion of the Rajasthan Royals, the second the possible involvement of Manchester City Football Club in one of the forthcoming additional IPL franchises

Reasons to hate sport

With two posts already on why people should love sport, I feel it’s only fair to acknowledge the existence of the other side of the argument- all of you out there who don’t share my passion are not without merit. Like everything, the sporting sphere has its flaws, its weaknesses and its annoyances, which I will begin to discuss in a complementary series of posts.