Birkbeck Sport Business Centre

The Policing of Football Supporters in Italy in the 21st Century: Repeating the Mistakes of England in the 1980s?

Wednesday 24th March 2010 at 6pm
B01 Lecture Theatre
Clore Management Centre
Birkbeck College
Torrington Square
London WC1
(For directions please see the pdf map).

A Roundtable Discussion

Lorenzo Contucci, Civil Rights Lawyer.
Dr Mark James – Salford University and an expert on the evolution of the law in England & Wales as it has been applied to football supporters.
Dr Geoff Pearson – Liverpool University, an expert in legal and policing responses to football crowd disorder.
Marco Perduca, Senator for the Radical Party in the Italian Parliament.

As this event is expected to be heavily over-subscribed please confirm your place by RSVP to s.hamil@bbk.ac.uk.

Synopsis

In the 1980’s and early 1990’s Italian club football was widely regarded as the most successful in Europe, manifested by (1) highly successful teams in European club competitions, and (2) a dynamic, passionate and colourful fan culture widely admired across Europe. This success was also reflected in the popularity of TV broadcast Italian football in other European football countries, notably in England. This was at a time when English football was mired in a spiral of decline, with crumbling, poorly maintained, and incompetently managed stadia frequently becoming the venue for conflict between young football supporters and highly aggressive policing. The situation came to a head in 1989 when 96 Liverpool fans died at an FA Cup semi-final game at Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough ground. The subsequent Taylor Report into the disaster laid bare a catalogue of stadium management incompetence, and led to root and branch reform of both the quality and management of English football stadia. However, one other development post-the Taylor Report was a move away from highly aggressive policing strategies with a greater focus on consultation with supporters’ groups. This strategy is widely acknowledged as having achieved much greater success in improving ground safety than the para-military style policing of football supporters which was so typical in the 1980s.

In the late 20th and beginning of the 21st century Italian football has been experiencing an upsurge in football-related violence which bears serious comparison with England in the 1980s. Another similarity is that Italian football stadia, last seriously refurbished in the run-up to the World Cup in Italy in 1990, are generally in very poor condition due to chronic under-investment. Ironically, the response of the authorities in Italy has been to adopt many of the repressive policing tactics adopted and proposed in England in the 1980s which failed so miserably to improve the situation.

This roundtable event brings together distinguished speakers and experts from England and Italy to discuss the comparative experience of the policing of football supporters in both countries, and in particular the application of the special laws focused specifically on controlling the behaviour of football fans. Critically the panel address a key question: is the legislative and policing response of the Italian authorities in the 21st Century simply repeating the mistakes of England in the 1980s? In addressing this question the panel will also address another key question: can any reform of the policing of Italian football avoid one of the alleged shortcomings of the English “modernisation”, the over-sanitisation of the stadium experience. Guschwan (2007, page 264), in his study of modern Italian fan culture, succinctly summarised the challenge:

“The difficult task facing Italian government, soccer leagues and fans is to balance the requirements of safety and civility with the passion and expression that makes Italian soccer matches so compelling.”

Reading

Guschwan, M. (April/July 2007). `Riot in the Curve: Soccer Fans in Twenty-first Century Italy’. Soccer & Society. Vol. 8, No. 2/3. Pages 250-266.
Inquiry by the Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Taylor (1990). The Hillsborough Stadium Disaster: Final Report. Cm 962. London HMSO.
Inquiry by the Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Taylor (1989). The Hillsborough Stadium Disaster: Interim Report. Cm 765. London HMSO.
Stott, C. & Pearson, G. (2007). Football Hooliganism: Policing and the War on the English Disease. Pennant Books

Biography

Lorenzo Contucci

Lorenzo is 44 years old, a father of three, a criminal lawyer since 1993, specializing in football-related violence jurisdiction, and the first lawyer in Italy to seriously challenge the draconian legislation relating to the policing of football supporters in Italy which has become increasingly prevalent in recent years. A Roma season ticket holder since his youth he was one of the founding members of the ultras’ group AS Roma Ultras (dissolved in 2004). A huge fan of punk-rock and new wave bands he collaborates with a radio station in Rome, spends his days in court, in his office and at home with his family. Since 1999 he has run the website - http://www.asromaultras.org/ - nowadays a benchmark for football fans all over Italy as a forum for independent commentary and information provision on the state of Italian football and Italian fan culture.

Dr Mark James

Mark is a Reader in Law at Salford Law School and the Director of the Salford Centre of Legal Research. He has published widely on the law relating to sports injuries and the regulation of spectators. He is a founding editor of the Entertainment and Sports Law Journal and has recently competed writing a textbook, Sports Law, for the Palgrave Law Masters series. He is currently working on an analysis of the jurisprudence surrounding personal autonomy and risk taking and is conducting an ongoing investigation of the regulation of ticket touting at sport and entertainment events with Professor Guy Osborn of the University of Westminster.

Geoff Pearson

Geoff is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool Management School and Director of Studies for the MBA (Football Industries) degree. He graduated from the University of Lancaster in 1995 with an LLB (with honours) in law before completing a PhD thesis in 1999 entitled Legal Responses to Football Crowd Disorder, at the same institution. Geoff joined the Football Industry Group at Liverpool in 1999 and his research interests have focused on ‘Football Hooliganism’, legal responses to football crowd disorder, Banning Orders and the policing of football crowds. Geoff was a scientific advisor to FIFA's Daniel Nivel Foundation on Football Spectator Violence and between 2000 and 2004 worked on a UK Home Office funded project investigating the policing of English fans abroad. He has published on the subject in (amongst others) The Journal of Civil Liberties, Youth & Policy, The Journal of Criminal Law and The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice. In 2007 he published his first book (co-authored with Dr Clifford Stott), Football Hooliganism: Policing and the War on the English Disease (Pennant Books). A full CV is available.

Marco Perduca

Marco is 42, and was elected to the Italian Senate in April 2008 as a member of the Radical delegation in the Democratic Party. He is member of the Foreign Affairs and Human Rights Committees. From 1996 to 2006 he represented the Nonviolent Radical Party to the United Nations in New York, Geneva and Vienna coordinating the campaigns to establish an International Criminal Court and a Universal Moratorium on the Death Penalty. From 2006 and 2008 he was an independent consultant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His letters and comments have appeared in The Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, and major Italian newspapers. He is a frequent commentator on BBC TV and radio on Italian politics since 2005 he blogs at http://perdukistan.blogspot.com. He stopped following Fiorentina in 1982 after Juventus stole yet another season.

Birkbeck Sport Business Seminar Series Contact Details

For further details on the seminar series contact:

Sean Hamil
Department of Management
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HX

Tel: 020-7631 6763
Email: s.hamil@bbk.ac.uk

Greek Professional Football: �What�s the score after the triumph in Euro 2004?�

Greek Professional Football: ‘What’s the score after the triumph in Euro 2004?’

Wednesday 10th March 2010
Medawar Lankaster Lecture Theatre (University College London),
Malet Place, (off Torrington Place),
London WC1
(For directions please see the pdf map).

Given by:

Christos Anagnostopoulos
Researcher at Salford Business School, University of Salford

Synopsis

Has the Greek national team’s success in Euro 2004 been a lost opportunity for a total re-structure of Greek football? For someone who is acquainted with the Greek football scene, the answer would probably be ‘yes’. The fact is that, over the last few years, Greek professional football has experienced numerous changes, manifested in elements such as institutional and club ownership structures, immense sponsorship deals, stadium developments, and enormous TV rights contracts. Despite these changes, however, the organisational aspect of Greek football - as well as the business-side - has attracted limited academic focus, and studies that examine explicitly the organisation of Greek professional football have not penetrated the scholarly debate on football.

Against this background, and drawing on a recently published book* co-authored with Takis Alexopoulos (University of Peloponnese, Greece), Christos Anagnostopoulos looks at the development of Greek football with particular focus on its organisational structure. Firstly, a brief historical overview of Greek football is given, before its professional status is discussed. The core discourse concerns the institutional structure, power struggles amongst the football authorities, and the financial regulations which underpin the leagues. References are made to both sporting success and geographical concentration and to the recent collaborative agreement over TV broadcasting rights. The presentation then sketches out four characteristic types of ownership seen in the current Greek professional football context, and briefly concludes with some possible suggestions for tackling the organisational challenges which confront Greek football.

* This is the first textbook in Greek literature that deals explicitly with the organisation and business practice of Greek football. It is the principal text utilised by Dr Alexopoulos for the module ‘Organisational Theory & Football” in the Department of Sport Management at the University of Peloponnese in Greece.

Reading:

Alexopoulos, (Takis) P. & Anagnostopoulos, C. (2010). Business in Football: The Structure & Organisation of Greek Professional Football. [Ποδοσφαιρική Επιχειρηματικότητα: Δομή & Οργάνωση του Ελληνικού Επαγγελματικού Ποδοσφαίρου] – Athens, Greece: Sideris.
Anagnostopoulos, C. “The Organisation of Football in Greece”, in H. Gammelsæter & B. Senaux (eds.) Football Across Europe: An Institutional Perspective. London: Routledge (forthcoming).
Anagnostopoulos, C. (2008). A Concise Financial Overview of the Greek Football League. Oikonomia & Athlitismos, Vol. 4, No 4.

Biography

Christos Anagnostopoulos is currently working as a researcher at the Research Centre for Organisational Behaviour & Leadership, Salford Business School, Salford University. He holds a PhD Graduate Teaching Assistantship position based on his research proposal entitled ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and Professional Football’. He also teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate level business-related modules including Strategic Management and Corporate Social Responsibility. He received a BA in Sport Management from Birmingham University and an MRes. in Sport Management & Business of Football at Birkbeck College, University of London. Christos started his professional career as a football player in Greece (2nd & 3rd Division) and his most recent employment was at University College Birmingham as a Sports Facilities Manager. Christos is an academic member of the Athens Institute of Education and Research, and he contributes to the Quarterly Greek Review “Oikonomia & Athlitismos” of the Pan-Hellenic Association of Sports Economists & Managers (PSAOS). His key research interests are in corporate social responsibility and in the utilisation of grounded theory methodology.

Contact details:

c.anagnostopoulos@salford.ac.uk or chrisanagno@yahoo.gr
Webpage: canagnostopoulos.eu

Birkbeck Sport Business Seminar Series Contact Details

For further details on the seminar series contact:

Sean Hamil
Department of Management
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HX

Tel: 020-7631 6763
Email: s.hamil@bbk.ac.uk

Securing the Future of a Medium-Sized English Football Club: the Case of Brentford FC�s Planned Move to a New Community Stadium

Securing the Future of a Medium-Sized English Football Club: the Case of Brentford FC’s Planned Move to a New Community Stadium

Wednesday 3rd March 2010 at 6pm

Medawar Lankaster Lecture Theatre (University College London),
Malet Place, (off Torrington Place),
London WC1
(For directions please see the pdf map).

Given by:

Brian Burgess

Director, Brentford FC (Lionel Road) Ltd

Synopsis

Brentford FC was founded in 1889 to serve as a winter pursuit for the Brentford Rowing Club. The club moved to their current ground, Griffin Park, in 1905. The club enjoyed some playing success in the 1930s, but since then it has largely played its football in the third and fourth tiers of English football player. However, like most lower-league clubs it has a significant hard core following who exemplify the exceptional loyalty that English football clubs excite in their supporters and it remains a much-loved sporting institution in its West London locale.

It is a supreme irony that the period 1992-2008, which witnessed an explosion in revenues as the English game commercialised, has also been a period of extraordinary financial instability in the Football League – tiers 2-4 of English football – which saw 52 separate incidences of administration, as clubs desperately competed with each other for player talent in order to chase lucrative promotions to higher divisions. At Brentford this led to the club becoming heavily indebted to such an extent that its very existence was thrown into question. In response to this crisis, in 2001 a fan’s co-operative was formed – Bees United, the trading name for Brentford Football Community Society Limited – with a view to securing the future of the club through supporters taking a significant shareholding in the club.

Bees United acquired the majority shareholding (60%) in Brentford Football Club on January 20th 2006. It has loaned over £1.4m to Brentford Football Club and now has four Director places on the eight-seat Football Club Board. In November 2002 Bees United unveiled plans for a stadium development complex at Lionel Road, a triangle of land next to Kew Bridge Railway Station. Bees Utd's plans were a potential remedy to the problems that had bedevilled the Club's management for decades: complex financial arrangements for a new stadium, in an area of scarce land availability. Hence the importance of its fundraising initiatives and the Club acquiring an alternative stadium and with it a fresh tranche of revenue streams.

In this presentation, former Bees United chairman Brian Burgess first explains the challenging financial environment in which a medium-sized football club must operate. He will then outline how a proposed “community hub” model may offer the best model for survival and indeed prosperity for such clubs going forward into the future. He will then discuss the specific challenges relating to moving a club like Brentford from its current 100 year old home to a planned new 20,000 Community Stadium which can secure the club’s future for the next generation on Brentford supporters. Finally he will reflect on the supporters’ trust/private investor partnership model at Brentford, which over the last five years has delivered stability to the club in a very difficult financial environment.

Reading

Biography

Brian is a business advisor specialising in the development of sports stadia, multi-purpose community hubs and social enterprise models for linking sport, health, education, and social inclusion. He is currently leading the development of a new 20,000 seat Brentford Community Stadium for Brentford Football Club. From 2003 to 2007 he chaired the supporters' trust (supporters co-operative) at Brentford, Bees United. Brian is also a trustee of Brentford FC Community Sports Trust, a charity delivering participation in 15 sports in four London boroughs to 30,000 young people each year.

Until December 2007 Brian was Managing Director CAN Health and Sport Ltd, a social enterprise advisory service working with the public, private and third sectors to promote the development of community hubs delivering public services. Prior to joining CAN in 2002, his 30-year business career spanned the public and private sectors with extensive project and general management experience, principally in the engineering and construction, energy and utility industries, including executive and non-executive directorships in the UK and overseas. Brian is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.

Contact Details

Email: brian@briburg.com

Birkbeck Sport Business Seminar Series Contact Details

For further details on the seminar series contact:

Sean Hamil
Department of Management
Birkbeck College
Malet Street

Why England Lose & Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained

Why England Lose & Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained
- including “The Strange Death of the FA Cup”?

Wednesday 27th January 2010, 6pm

Medawar Lankaster Lecture Theatre (University College London),
Malet Place, (off Torrington Place),
London WC1
(For directions please see the pdf map).

Given by:

Professor Stefan Szymanski
Cass Business School, City University London

Synopsis

Professor Stefan Szymanski is one the world’s leading sports’ economists. Highly published in academic journals he has also translated this body of knowledge on the economics of sport for publications aimed at the wider public. His latest book Why England Lose & Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained (co-authored with Simon Kuper, journalist and columnist with the Financial Times, and the author of the critically acclaimed Football Against the Enemy) presents a provocative analysis of much of the received wisdom in contemporary football analysis and culture, putting it to the test using quantitative economic and statistical analysis.

In this presentation Stefan focuses on a key phenomenon addressed in the book; the decline in popularity of the FA Cup, most recently manifested a by a crowd of less than 6,000 for the January 2010 3rd round FA Cup tie between Premier League clubs Wigan Athletic and Hull City. He explains how for the 1970s, an examination of attendance figures illustrates that games between the same two teams in the FA Cup attracted a higher crowd than when the teams met in league competition in the same season. However, from the 1994/95 season the gap in superior attendances at FA Cup games began to erode quickly until in 1997/98 they fell below the figure for equivalent league games for the first time.

Stefan argues that a key reason for the decline in popularity of the FA Cup was that it lacked the heavy, live TV exposure of the Premier League and the UEFA Champions League which were aggressively and successfully promoted by BSkyB. In the pre-pay-per-view TV era before 1992 it had been the FA Cup, rather than the 1st Division, that received the most TV coverage. Much of the magic of the FA Cup came from its semi-exclusive live coverage on terrestrial TV. The decline in attractiveness has been further exaggerated by the fact that “giant-killing”, (defeat of the top division Premier League clubs by lower leagues), a key source of the magic of the FA Cup in terms of its public popularity, now occurs much less frequently since the establishment of the Premier League. This is because whilst in the 1970s first division clubs spent four times as much on players as fourth division clubs, by the late 1990s they were spending more than twelve times as much. With this increased disparity in labour market spending power the probability of likely upsets was dramatically reduced.

Stefan notes that since the year 2000 overall attendances at FA Cup have risen modestly every season, but still “the tradition is not what it used to be”. Critically he underpins this analysis with reference to statistical data, and places the analysis of this data within an appropriate discussion of the historical development of the FA Cup and the competitors (Premier League and Champions League) for its supporters, thus elevating any discussion of how the competition might be revived above the level of nostalgic discourse and football cliché.

Reading

Kuper, S. & Szymanski, S. (2009). Why England Lose & Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained. London: HarperCollinsPublishers.

Biography

Stefan Szymanski is Professor of Economics at Cass Business School, City University, London. He is recognised as one the world’s leading and most influential sports economists He has published widely in the academic press on issues relating to the incentives in contests, competitive balance in sports leagues, the business strategy of football and other sports, the sale of broadcast rights, the role of competition law, public subsidies major sporting events, well-being and sports policy, and the economic history of sport. He has advised governments, sport governing bodies and clubs on various economic issues. He has written in the media on business issues relating to football, cricket and the Olympics among others. In addition to Why England Lose & Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained (with Simon Kuper), he has recently co-authored Fans of the World Unite! A (Capitalist) Manifesto for Sports Consumers (with Steve Ross, Stanford University Press), and authored Playbooks and Checkbooks: An Introduction to the Economics of Modern Sports.

Contact details

Email: Stefan.Szymanski.1@city.ac.uk

Birkbeck Sport Business Seminar Series Contact Details

For further details on the seminar series contact:

Sean Hamil
Department of Management
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HX

Tel: 020-7631 6763
Email: s.hamil@bbk.ac.uk

The 2010 World Cup: What will it give South Africa?

The Royal African Society and the Birkbeck Sports Business Centre, Birkbeck College, University of London are proud to present

The 2010 World Cup

What will it give South Africa?

Dr. Danny Jordaan
CEO, 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising
Committee South Africa

11.00am
Thursday 4 March 2010
Tambling Suite
Chelsea Football Club
Stamford Bridge
SW6 1HS London

Twenty years since Nelson Mandela was released from prison South Africa hosts the 2010 football World Cup. However, despite this historic anniversary, many questions remain. Will the Rainbow Nation host a tournament that is successful on more than just a sporting level? Can football hasten the healing process for millions of South Africans still living in the shadow of apartheid? What does this mean for South Africa and the continent’s developing global image? Dr Danny Jordaan, CEO of the tournament, explores the possible legacies the World Cup can bequeath.

Seats are limited. Please RSVP by emailing

RSVP@royalafricansociety.org.uk

Talent Identification and Elite Player Recruitment in �Network Football� � A critical case study from inside the Premier League

Talent Identification and Elite Player Recruitment in ‘Network Football’ – A critical case study from inside the Premier League

Wednesday 10th February 2010 at 6pm

Medawar Lankaster Lecture Theatre (University College London),
Malet Place, (off Torrington Place),
London WC1

(For directions please see the pdf map).

Given by:

Dr Jonathan Magee

Senior Lecturer in the School of Sport, Tourism and the Outdoors, University of Central Lancashire

Synopsis

The global development of the professional football world has increased the rate, scale, and destinations of professional football labour migrants. A key conduit behind such increases has been the legislative changes to labour legislation whereby contractual freedom has greatly facilitated professional players to cross national and international borders for occupational purposes. In the last two decades the FA Premier League has experienced significant in-migration of foreign talent, some highly regarded world stars and others less so. So far academic research on this subject has focused predominantly on patterns, rates and destinations of professional football players (of which there are many), the experiences of elite football labour migrants, the occupational conditions as applied to football labour as well as what (or whom) constitutes ‘network football’ and the ensuing political economy power struggles that subsequently shape and re-shape the world game. Global player migration, and in particular the movement of elite players, is a central component of ‘network football’ but little is known about what lies behind the recruitment of elite players.

Following over a decade of academic research into the football labour market the author secured a Consultancy Post in 2008 at an elite level English professional club where he established and then managed a Player Recruitment System. The position lasted for 18 months and provided the author with critical experiences of the inner dealings of player recruitment and talent identification within the Premier League. With the approval of the football club, this paper focuses on critical issues regarding talent identification and player recruitment with particular emphasis on player profiling, tracking and filtering, electronic and technical support databases and systems, and the power struggles involved in recruiting elite level players.

Reading

Lanfranchi, P. and Taylor, M. (2001) Moving with the ball: the migration of professional footballers, Oxford: Berg
Magee, J. (2006) ‘When is a Contract More than a Contract? Professional Football Contracts and the Pendulum of Power’ in Entertainment and Sports Law, Special Edition, Vol. 4, No. 2, ISSN 1748-944X
Magee, J. (2002) ‘Shifting balances of power in the new football economy’ in John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson (Eds), Power Games: Theory and Method for the Critical Sociology of Sport, Routledge, London, pp.216-239
Magee, J. and Sugden, J. (2002) ‘“The world at their feet”: Professional football and international labour migration’ in Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 26, 4, November, pp.421-437
Sugden J (2002) ‘Network Football’ in Sugden J and Tomlinson A (Eds) Power Games: A Critical Sociology of Sport, London: Routledge
Sugden J and Tomlinson A (1998) FIFA and the contest for world football: who rules the people's game?, Oxford: Polity Press
Sugden J and Tomlinson A Jennings A (1999) Great balls of fire: how big money is hi-jacking world football, Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing

Biography

Dr Jonathan Magee is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Sport, Tourism and the Outdoors at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) and has recently returned to the university following an 18 month consultancy period within professional football. He has published on sports labour migration, the tradition-modernity interplay in sport, the football labour market, sport and community in Northern Ireland, the use of sport to re-engage homeless people with society, coursing and Irish sports history and the methodological approach of conducting insider research in the sports context. Jonathan has also studied the role of sports and youth clubs in encouraging young people to access further education and a return to employment, the role of professional football clubs in encouraging people from ethnic minority populations to participate in football and the experiences of elite partially sighted footballers. He has also undertaken a number of evaluation projects in sport, most recently for the Football Association of Zambia where he examined the development of women’s and girls’ football and provided a strategy for future policy in this area. He has also undertaken evaluation work for the Football Foundation at their Stage 3 Evaluation Level of several community projects as well as for Burnley Football Club in an examination of their ethnic diversity policy on their community and leisure programmes and Centre of Excellence scheme.

Contact Details

Email: jmagee@uclan.ac.uk

Birkbeck Sport Business Seminar Series Contact Details

For further details on the seminar series contact:

Sean Hamil
Department of Management
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX

Tel: 020-7631 6763

Email: s.hamil@bbk.ac.uk

New Geographies of the International Recruitment of Football Players in Europe

Wednesday 17th February 2010 at 6pm

Medawar Lankaster Lecture Theatre (University College London),
Malet Place, (off Torrington Place),
London WC1
(For directions please see the pdf map).

Given by:

Dr Raffaele Poli

Sports Science Institute, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

The Professional Football Players’ Observatory (PFPO) at the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) of the University of Neuchâtel is Europe’s leading academic research centre for the study of the football players’ labour market. The Centre publishes two key annual analytical documents. About to go into its fifth year of publication, the Annual Review of the European Football Players is the definitive reference publication for information on football labour market trends and the logics of squad formation in the five main European leagues. Now in its second year of publication the Demographic Study of European Footballers is an annual publication which offers a scientific analysis of the European football players’ labour market. It presents the dynamics at work in 36 first division leagues in UEFA member countries.

In this seminar, drawing on data from both publications and the work of the PFPO, Dr Raffaele Poli, one of the founders of both publications, presents the latest results on international flows of footballers towards and within Europe. The first part of his presentation is dedicated to the big-5 European leagues. It analyzes the changes occurred in the geography of international signings since 2005 under the light of the concept of globalization. From the perspective of the labour market of footballers, this is defined as the functional integration of championships on a transnational scale implying an increase in the number of international flows and a spatial diversification of the routes of players’ trade. The second part presents the situation observed in October 2009 in 36 top division leagues of UEFA member countries. Leagues are classified in different categories according to the geographic areas of foreign recruitment of their clubs.

Biography

Raffaele Poli is junior professor assistant at the Sports Science Institute of the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland, where he runs a Master in Management of Sport and Leisure. He is also scientific collaborator at the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) of the University of Neuchâtel. He is the co-founder and director of the Professional Football Players’ Observatory, a research group made up of Swiss, French and Italian academics investigating the labour market of footballers.

Reading

Poli, R.; Ravenel, L.; & Besson, R. (2006-2009 – 4 editions). Annual Review of the European Football Players’ Labour Market. Neuchâtel : CIES. -
Poli, R.; Ravenel, L.; & Besson, R. (2010). The Demographic Study of European Footballers. Neuchâtel : CIES
Poli, R. “Labour Market Migration to the Five Major Leagues in European Football: The Impact on National Team Selection”. In : Walters, G. & Rossi, G. (August 2009). “Labour Market Migration in European Football: Key Issues and Challenges”. Birkbeck Sport Business Centre Research Paper Series, Volume 2, Number 2, August 2009. Chapter 3.

Contact Details

Email: raffaele.poli@unil.ch and raffaele.poli@unine.ch

Birkbeck Sport Business Seminar Series Contact Details

For further details on the seminar series contact:

Sean Hamil
Department of Management
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HX

Tel: 020-7631 6763
Email: s.hamil@bbk.ac.uk

MESGO - Master in European Sport Governance. Birkbeck enters innovative partnership with European universities and sports, governing bodies

Birkbeck Sport Business Centre (BSBC), Birkbeck College, University of London, has entered into a partnership with four other leading European universities with established reputations for research and teaching in the fields of sport governance, business, economics and law - the Centre De Droit Et D'Economie Du Sport, University of Limoges (France), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany), Institut Nacional D'Educacio Fiscia De Catalunya, University of Lleida (Spain, and Science Po Paris (France) - to deliver an innovative new executive Master’s programme - the Master programme in European Sport Governance (MESGO). The programme is being supported by five of Europe's leading team sport confederations: CEV (the European Volleyball Confederation); EHF (the European Handball Association); FIBA Europe (International Basketball Confederation-Europe); FIRA-AER (European Rugby Association); and UEFA (Union of European Football Associations).

Sport Marketing and the Globalization of Football

Wednesday, February 3rd 2010 at 6pm
Lankaster Lecture Theatre
Medawar Building (University College London),
Malet Place, (off Torrington Place),
London WC1
(For directions please see the pdf map).

Given by:
Michel Desbordes, Professor in Sport Marketing, University of Paris Sud 11

Synopsis

In Europe, professional football is fast becoming a major industry characterised by commercialism and the growth of formal, professional marketing practices. The maturity of some European football markets has resulted in leading clubs seeking growth opportunities in other countries, most notably in Asia. At the same time, clubs from some European nations continue to face difficult operating conditions as they struggle to maintain presence and profile in a complex, dynamic environment.

Outside Europe, the popularity of football in Asia continues unabated. Spurred on by their hosting of the 2002 World Cup, football in Japan and South Korea is in a healthy position, although the product on offer is not at a level of maturity commensurate with the major European leagues. Elsewhere in Asia, the industry essentially consists of two types of country: countries where there is a strong interest in football but this interest is being served by overseas clubs and leagues, rather than domestic provision; and countries where, thus far, receptiveness to football is limited, possibly due to the popularity of other sports or due to economic and social conditions.

In the America’s, the profile of the football industry is a starkly contrasting one. In Central and South America, football is hugely popular, spanning social, economic and cultural divisions. Nevertheless, the industry is notoriously inefficient, many clubs are operating at a loss and with little regard for formal or professional approaches to marketing. In the United States, formality and professionalism is present, but football (or soccer as it is commonly referred to) does not enjoy the socio-cultural prominence that it does elsewhere in the world, which presents a distinct set of challenges for those involved in marketing the sport.

As for the rest of world, football is often very popular, it deeply evokes a multitude of emotions and in many cases displays some highly distinctive features. However, in Africa, the notion of marketing is one that has yet to effectively establish itself, compounding economic problems and the exodus of players to other countries. Yet the African experience is too difficult to categorise, especially as South Africa is set to host the 2010 World Cup, whilst North African football is much higher profile and economically prosperous than football in many Saharan countries. In Oceania, football is largely an immature product; in the former colonies of Northern European countries there is some interest in football, although this tends to be centred on particular ethnic groups and is often overshadowed by other, often culturally specific, sports. Elsewhere, geographic remoteness, population size, as well as the importance of other sports means that football does not enjoy the interest that it does in other parts of the world.

In the light of a prevailing view that football is ‘the global game’, this paper therefore sets out to examine the state of football marketing in different geographic areas across the world. The paper begins by identifying the scale of the global football industry, as well as highlighting the contribution it makes to specific countries. Thereafter, a definition of football marketing will be provided; in addition, the distinctive characteristics of the industry will be profiled. These characteristics are especially important because they effectively define the framework within which football marketers must operate, and it is notable that many features of football pose unique and highly distinctive challenges for marketers. Subsequently, the paper moves on to assess the state of marketing in football across the world. This is based around the following groups: a) marketing football in the ‘big-5’ European leagues; b) marketing football in small European countries; c) football marketing in the rest of the world. The paper concludes by identifying some of the challenges that football marketers are likely to face over the next 5 to 10 years.

Reading

Desbordes, M (Eds.) (2006). Marketing and Football, an International Perspective. Elsevier publisher, Oxford (UK), 544 p.
Desbordes, M., Falgoux, J. (2006). Gestion y Organizacion de un Evento Deportivo. INDE Publicaciones, Barcelona, Spain, 221 p.
Desbordes, M. (2007). `The future of the Tour de France: from an independent style of organization to a “Formula 1 model”?’. In D.Arthur and S.Chadwick (Eds.). International Cases in the Business of Sport, Elsevier, Oxford, 358-371.
Desbordes, M. (2009). `The situation of French football’. In S.Hamil and S.Chadwick (Eds.) Managing Football: An International Perspective, Elsevier. Oxford.
Gil-LaFuente, J. (2006). `Marketing a socially complex club: FC Barcelona’. In Desbordes, M. (Ed.), Marketing and Football: An International Perspective, Elsevier, Oxford.
Hoehn, T., Szymanski, S., Matutes, C., and Seabright, P. (1999). `The Americanization of European Football’, Economic Policy, Vol. 14, No. 28, pp. 203-240.
Martin, P. (2005), `The Europeanization of Elite Football – Scope, Meanings, Significance’, European Societies, Vol. 7, No. 1., pp. 349 – 368.
Mullin B., Hardy S., Sutton W. (2007), Sport Marketing. Promotion and Sales Management, Champaign Ill., E.U., Human Kinetics.
Richelieu, A., and Pons, F. (2006), `Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Football Club Barcelona: How two legendary sports teams built their brand equity’, International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 231-259.

Biography

Michel Desbordes is a Professor at the University of Paris Sud 11, France. He is also associate professor at the ISC School of management (Paris, France). He is a specialist in sport marketing; his research focuses on the management of sport events, sports sponsorship and marketing applied to football. He has published 16 books (Elsevier, UK; Editorial Paidotribo & INDE Publicaciones, Barcelona, Spain; Economica & les Editions d’Organisation & PUS, France) and 26 academic articles (International Journal of Sport Marketing and Sponsorship, European Sport Management Quarterly, International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing) in this field.

His last book in English was entitled Marketing and Football: an International Perspective” and was published by Elsevier in October 2006.

He founded the MX Sports company in 2004, where he is the director and a senior consultant for sport federations, sponsors, local communities and sport equipment manufacturers.

Since January 2009 Michel has become the new editor of the International Journal of Sports Marketing & Sponsorship

Contact Details

Web site: www.groupeisc.com
Email: mdesbordes@groupeisc.com

Birkbeck Sport Business Seminar Series Contact Details

For further details on the seminar series contact:

Sean Hamil

Department of Management
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HX

Tel: 020-7631 6763
Email: s.hamil@bbk.ac.uk

Supporting Arsenal FC's Community Department Outreach

Supporting Arsenal FC's Community Department Outreach - Arsenal FC Case Book for Schools

Wednesday, January 13th 2010 at 6pm
Medawar Lankaster Lecture Theatre (University College London),
Malet Place, (off Torrington Place),
London WC1
(For directions please see the pdf map).

Given by:
Paul Kitchin and Jon Pettigrew

Synopsis

In this seminar, Paul Kitchin and Jon Pettigrew review their recent publication, a Casebook for UK Schools and Colleges about the business of running a major sports venue and brand - Arsenal FC's Emirates Stadium. Examples will be shown of the range of business studies issues which were researched with the Club's support, starting with an MBA Case about the financing of the stadium, leading to a 96 page full colour Case Book, published by London Metropolitan Business School, about to be launched into UK Schools and Colleges. Insights will be provided into the management of the relationship between academia and professional sport, including football, when dealing with project working. In particular the difference between organisational support and commitment to projects (which differ in their critical insight and audience) will be explored. Data from observations and interviews regarding organisational partnerships will be presented. Current project developments for a 2012 MBA Case on the London 2012 Olympics and spin-off Schools and Colleges materials will be reviewed.

Biography

Jon Pettigrew MBA

Jon worked for 10 years in HQ Marketing at Whitbread, a leading sports sponsor, before taking the Cranfield MBA. During his MBA he co-founded a pioneering software and music internet business which was sold to Sony and other investors in 2002. He was Head of Business & Enterprise at an inner London comprehensive school until 2008 and now combines research and consultancy with some teaching. Jon is also investing in two tourism businesses.

Paul Kitchin

Paul Kitchin is Lecturer in Sport Management at the University of Ulster where he teaches sport strategy, finance, marketing and policy. Paul is currently deputy editor of the International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship and an editorial board member of the International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing. Paul has experience working with UK third-sector sporting organisations in the provision of research, planning and consultancy services. A graduate of University of Tasmania and Deakin University he is currently completing his PhD at Loughborough University investigating the development of self identity in young people with disabilities through sporting participation.

Contact Details

Birkbeck Sport Business Seminar Series Contact Details

For further details on the seminar series contact:

Sean Hamil

Department of Management
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HX

Tel: 020-7631 6763
Email: s.hamil@bbk.ac.uk

The Regulation of Football Disorder: A Case of Punishment Without Trial?

Wednesday 9th December 2010 at 6pm
Lankaster Lecture Theatre
Medawar Building (University College London),
Malet Place, (off Torrington Place),
London WC1

(For directions please see the pdf map).

Given by:
Dr Mark James, Reader in Law at Salford Law School

Synopsis

Since the introduction of its forerunner, the Exclusion Order, in the Public Order Act 1986, the Football Banning Orders (FBO) has played and increasingly important and high profile role in the police’s strategy for regulating football-related disorder. The key development in the usefulness of FBOs to the police was the introduction of s.14B Football Spectators Act. This provision enabled the chief officer of police of an area where a person lives to apply for an FBO to prevent them from attending all regulated football matches in England and Wales and all games taking place abroad that involved the England national team and the team supported by the banned person; previously, FBOs could only be imposed following a conviction for a football related offence.

In the run up to the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany, the police made a concerted effort to apply for FBOs under s.14B to prevent all suspected football hooligans from travelling to the tournament. The perceived success of this strategy is likely to see it being repeated in the months before the World Cup in South Africa next year. This paper analyses the legality of imposing a FBO on a person who is only suspected of involvement in football-related disorder and questions their use as a tactic for controlling football hooliganism.

Reading

James, M and Pearson, G ‘The Legality and Effectiveness of Using Football Banning Orders in the Fight Against Racism and Violence at Sports Events’ in Gardiner, S., Parrish, R and Siekmann, R(Eds) EU, Sport, Law and Policy: Regulation, Re-Regulation and Representation (2009 TMC Asser Press) pp. 535-555
James, M and Pearson, G ‘Football Banning Orders: Analysing their use in Court’ (2006) 70(6) Journal of Criminal Law 509
Pearson, G ‘Qualifying for Europe? The Legitimacy of Football Banning Orders ‘On Complaint’ under the Principle of Proportionality’ (2005) 3(1) Entertainment and Sports Law Journal online

Biography

Dr Mark James Mark is a Reader in Law at Salford Law School and the Director of the Salford Centre of Legal Research. He has published widely on the law relating to sports injuries and the regulation of spectators. He is a founding editor of the Entertainment and Sports Law Journal and has recently competed writing a textbook, Sports Law, for the Palgrave Law Masters series. He is currently working on an analysis of the jurisprudence surrounding personal autonomy and risk taking and is conducting an ongoing investigation of the regulation of ticket touting at sport and entertainment events with Prof Guy Osborn of the University of Westminster.

Contact Details

Email: m.d.james@salford.ac.uk

Birkbeck Sport Business Seminar Series Contact Details

For further details on the seminar series contact:

Sean Hamil
Department of Management
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HX

Tel: 020-7631 6763
Email: s.hamil@bbk.ac.uk

The Secret History of Arsenal Football Club

Wednesday 18th November 2009 at 6pm
Medawar Lankaster Lecture Theatre (University College London)
Malet Place, (off Torrington Place)
London WC1
(For directions please see the pdf map).

Given by:
Alex Fynn

Arsenal football club has been one of the great success stories of English football since the establishment of the Premier League in 1992. According to the Deloitte 2008/2009 Football Money League (page 12) at the end of the 2007/2008 season it was the 6th richest club in Europe, had successfully managed the transition to possibly the most impressive club stadium in European football at the Emirates whilst still managing to stay close to its traditional home in the London borough of Islington, all whilst remaining profitable at the pre-tax level, but still consistently producing exciting and competitive teams capable of challenging for the top sporting honours in English and European football. This constellation of positive benefits is an extraordinary achievement for a European football club, where chronic loss-making and financial instability are the norm.

In this presentation, drawing on his experience of advising Arsenal on media and marketing, and from first hand interviews with most of the leading figures at Arsenal Football Club - including Arsène Wenger, David Dein and Danny Fiszman - interviews conducted as part of the research for his highly acclaimed book Arsènal: the Making of a Modern Superclub (co-authored with Kevin Whitcher), the paperback edition of which was published in September, Alex Fynn will present an assessment of the current health of Arsenal Football Club as its totemic manager, Arsène Wenger, turns 60 years of age.

He will first examine the critical role of the Arsenal team manager in not only team affairs - building one of the most exciting young attacking teams in European football through a strong emphasis on youth talent development with a globalised reach - but also through his involvement as a key influencer on the evolution of wider business strategy at the club. Alex will then assess the future prospects for Arsenal going forward. Historically the club has been said to have benefited from a highly stable and patient shareholder base, with two major shareholders, David Dein and Danny Fiszman, acting in coalition and widely credited with having exercised a very positive stewardship of the football club. However, the decision by former club vice-chairman David Dein to sell his shareholding to Uzbek investor Alisher Usamov's Red & White Holdings, and the arrival on the share register of American sports entrepreneur Stanley Kroenke as a significant minority investor, has fractured that stability. Alex addresses the critical question as to whether the current volatility on the share register simply represents a short-term period of transition to a new era of stability under a single investor or a new dominant coalition of minority investors; or whether in fact the club is entering a prolonged period of uncertainty in terms of its strategic direction where it may prove impossible to reconcile the contrasting visions for the club of major minority shareholders, with potentially very negative consequences for the club's financial performance and competitiveness on the field of play.

Reading

Fynn, A. & Whitcher, K. (2009). Arsènal: The Making of a Modern Superclub. London: Vision Sports Publishing. 2nd edition.
Deloitte (2009). Football Money League. Manchester: Deloitte.

Biography

Alex Fynn is a well-known consultant to the football industry who has also written extensively on the subject of the football business. His clients have included Arsenal, Celtic, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur football teams, as well as the Football League and the Football Association. Through his work he has been influential in the formation of both the Premier League and the European Champions League. Previously Alex was a director of the well-known advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, latterly as vice-chairman. Throughout his career Alex has acted as an advisor on the negotiation of the sale of TV broadcasting rights for clients such as the Football League and the FA, the latter which led to the award of the first BSkyB television contract. He has advised a number of clubs and federations on media and marketing; including the sale of broadcasting rights by the Polish FA, Galatasaray of Turkey and most recently by Celtic, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Fulham and West Ham.

For further details on this Seminar Series contact:

Sean Hamil
Department of Management
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HX

Email: s.hamil@bbk.ac.uk
or
Tel: 020-7631 6763

New publication - Managing Football: An International Perspective

Managing Football:
An International Perspective

Managing Football is the first book to respond to the growing professionalisation of the sport and the need for a text which both students on sport management courses and practitioners in the field can use.

Managing Football: An International Perspective
Hamil, S, & Chadwick, S. (Eds.). Managing Football: An International Perspective. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.

From Webster to Matuzalem and the future of FIFA Article 17

Wednesday 4th November, 2009, at 6pm
Lecture Theatre B01
The Clore Management Centre
Torrington Square
London WC1 7HX
(For directions please see the pdf map).

As this seminar is likely to be over-subscribed can you please e-mail Sean Hamil at s.hamil@bbk.ac.uk to confirm you will be attending.

Given by:
Juan de Dios Crespo, Ruiz Huerta & Crespo Sports Lawyers (Spain)

Synopsis

Article 17 of the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfers of Players (October 2009) deals with the issue of the consequences of terminating a contract without just cause between a football player and a football club. In particular it seeks to set out the framework within which the compensation figure a player must pay if they breach their contract will be calculated. The Regulations on the Status and Transfers of Players are themselves a response to an assessment by external agencies, notably the European Union, that the football industry regulations governing the football player transfer market unreasonably affected players “freedom of movement”; they are aimed at ensuring a significant degree of contractual stability between players and their clubs.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) was established by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1994 as an arbitral jurisdiction for dealing with international sports-related disputes and is now the primary international legal forum for the resolution of specifically sporting disputes. There have been two key cases at CAS in the development of case law regarding Article 17 – the Webster case (January 2008), and the Matuzalem case (May 2009). Both cases have seen the clients represented by Juan de Dios Crespo, Andrew Webster and Shakhtar Donetsk football club respectively, emerge victorious.

The Webster case revolved around the attempt by Scottish player Andrew Webster to end his contract with Edinburgh club Hearts and move to Wigan Athletic in the English Premiership. The CAS ultimately decided that he need only pay £150,000 compensation to Hearts and the case was widely viewed as signalling a dramatic increase in the power of players to terminate contracts and move to new clubs. The decision was widely criticised by representatives of football clubs but welcomed by players’ representative organisations.

In May 2009 the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rendered its decision in the case involving the Brazilian football player Matuzalem Francelino da Silva, Ukrainian club FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Spanish club Real Zaragoza SAD, and the world governing body of football FIFA, following the decision of Matuzalem to terminate his contract with Shakhtar Donetsk and join Zaragoza. The CAS determined that an amount of €11.9m be paid by Matuzalem to Shakhtar Donetsk as compensation for a unilateral breach of contract.

The Matuzalem case ruling has been widely viewed as shifting the balance of power back to football club employers from the players in the matter of players’ ability to end their contracts and move to new employers. But the lawyer for the victorious parties in both cases, Juan de Dios Crespo, argues that this is to misunderstand the implications of both rulings.

In this lecture Juan de Dios Crespo addresses the following key questions: (1) Is there really a contradiction between the outcomes of the Webster and Matuzelem cases, or are their specific elements to the breach of contract in each case which make it difficult to generalise a trend in similar cases going forward?; (2) What can be expected from CAS in future cases of this nature going forward?; (3) Is it necessary to re-modify Article 17 in order to clarify the landscape around the player termination of contract issue going forward? Juan will conclude by giving an assessment of how he sees the future development of case law in the application of Article 17 of the FIFA Regulations.

Biography:

Juan de Dios Crespo is one of the Partners of the Ruiz Huerta & Crespo, one of Spain’s leading sports law firms. He is one of Europe’s leading specialists in sports law and the application of EU law. Juan de Dios has been involved in several of the most important sports litigation cases of recent years (Mexès;Rodríguez/Bueno; Granada 74; Webster; Pizarro; and most latterly Matuzalem). He is an Arbitrator of the Valencia Chamber of Commerce as well as in proceedings at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration in Paris. He is also President of the Sports Law Section of the Valencia Bar and a regular speaker at legal and sports business seminars. He has published numerous legal papers.

Juan de Dios in conversation with FC Barcelona President Joan Laporta following Juan’s lecture to representatives of the 95 European Club Association (ECA) members and UEFA representatives at their meeting on 10th February 2009 in Geneva (Switzerland). The ECA, the official organisation representing major European football clubs (recognised as such by UEFA), invited Juan to its First Annual Conference to speak about the cancellation of the footballers’ contracts by virtue of Article 17 of the Regulations for the Status and Transfer of Players (“From Webster to Matuzalem and the future of Article 17”). This lecture presents an update on that address.

The Governance of Cricket - the Governance Challenges Facing English Cricket: the Perspective of the Professional Cricketers Association (PCA)

"The Governance of Cricket - the Governance Challenges Facing English Cricket: the Perspective of the Professional Cricketers Association (PCA)".

Wednesday 21st October 2009
Medawar Lankaster Lecture Theatre (University College London),
Malet Place, (off Torrington Place),
London WC1
(For directions please see the pdf map).

Given by:
Ian Smith, Legal Director, Professional Cricketers’ Association

Synopsis

Cricket is one of the world’s most popular team sports. It is also a sport which, in terms of its organisation and governance, over the last ten years has undergone some of the most radical developments of any professional sport globally and thus offers lessons for administrators and managers across the sport business spectrum. These developments include:

The launch by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on the lines of football’s English Premier League and the National Basketball League (NBA) of the US. The IPL is a professional Twenty20 cricket league created and promoted by the BCCI and backed by the International Cricket Council (ICC) which works on a franchise-system based on the American style of hiring players and transfers, and which draws players from a global player market
The fragmentation of playing formats from the traditional 5 day Test structure with the 20 over Twenty20 format increasingly seizing a wider audience.
The tension between the demands of domestic county cricket competition in England, and the demands of the international Test competitions such as the Cricket World Cup, and more particularly bilateral competitions between individual countries.
The increasing influence of TV broadcasters on the development of the game in the aftermath of the 2006 BCCI broadcasting deal, which altered the economic and political landscape dramatically in India’s favour.

In this presentation Ian Smith presents a broad historical overview of the development of the “industry” of cricket over the last decade, from the particular viewpoint of the Professional Cricketers Association (PCA). He concludes his analysis with some suggestions for regulatory reform.

Reading

The webpage of the Professional Cricketers Association (PCA)

Biography

Ian Smith is Legal Director of the Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA). He was a solicitor in private practice for 12 years, ending as a partner at Clarke Willmott and an acknowledged expert in sports law before going in-house in 2004. He is a specialist in sports governance and the relationship between athletes, their employers and their sports’ governing bodies. He has advised and represented athletes before disciplinary and anti-doping panels and adjudicated on cases involving anti-doping procedure and related disciplinary proceedings as well as, more recently, player registration issues in cricket where regulations have been changed to take account of the new Twenty20 Leagues – so called “unauthorised cricket”. He designed and implements the education programme for all first class professional cricketers in England and Wales. He has been on the anti-doping panel for every International Cricket Council (ICC) Event for the past three years. He is an advisor to a number of organisations on governance and anti-doping policy, including The Federation of International Cricket Associations (FICA), the Professional Players Association (PPF), the League Managers’ Association (LMA) and the European Elite Athletes Association (EU Athletes).

For further details on this seminar series contact:

Sean Hamil
Department of Management
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HX

Tel: 020-7631 6763
Email: s.hamil@bbk.ac.uk

Birkbeck Sport Business Centre

The Policing of Football Supporters in Italy in the 21st Century: Repeating the Mistakes of England in the 1980s?

The Policing of Football Supporters in Italy in the 21st Century: Repeating the Mistakes of England in the 1980s?

A Roundtable Discussion

Synopsis

Reading

Biography

Lorenzo Contucci

Dr Mark James

Geoff Pearson

Marco Perduca

Birkbeck Sport Business Seminar Series Contact Details

Greek Professional Football: �What�s the score after the triumph in Euro 2004?�

Greek Professional Football: ‘What’s the score after the triumph in Euro 2004?’

Synopsis

Reading:

Biography

Contact details:

Birkbeck Sport Business Seminar Series Contact Details

Securing the Future of a Medium-Sized English Football Club: the Case of Brentford FC�s Planned Move to a New Community Stadium

Securing the Future of a Medium-Sized English Football Club: the Case of Brentford FC’s Planned Move to a New Community Stadium

Synopsis

Reading

Biography

Contact Details

Birkbeck Sport Business Seminar Series Contact Details

Why England Lose & Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained

Why England Lose & Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained- including “The Strange Death of the FA Cup”?

Synopsis

Reading

Biography

Contact details

Birkbeck Sport Business Seminar Series Contact Details

The 2010 World Cup: What will it give South Africa?

The Royal African Society and the Birkbeck Sports Business Centre, Birkbeck College, University of London are proud to present

The 2010 World Cup

What will it give South Africa?

Talent Identification and Elite Player Recruitment in �Network Football� � A critical case study from inside the Premier League

Talent Identification and Elite Player Recruitment in ‘Network Football’ – A critical case study from inside the Premier League

Synopsis

Reading

Biography

Contact Details

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New Geographies of the International Recruitment of Football Players in Europe

New Geographies of the International Recruitment of Football Players in Europe

Biography

Reading

Contact Details

Birkbeck Sport Business Seminar Series Contact Details

MESGO - Master in European Sport Governance. Birkbeck enters innovative partnership with European universities and sports, governing bodies

Sport Marketing and the Globalization of Football

Sport Marketing and the Globalization of Football

Synopsis

Reading

Biography

Contact Details

Birkbeck Sport Business Seminar Series Contact Details

Supporting Arsenal FC's Community Department Outreach

Supporting Arsenal FC's Community Department Outreach - Arsenal FC Case Book for Schools

Synopsis

Biography

Contact Details

The Regulation of Football Disorder: A Case of Punishment Without Trial?

The Regulation of Football Disorder: A Case of Punishment Without Trial?

Synopsis

Reading

Biography

Contact Details

Birkbeck Sport Business Seminar Series Contact Details

The Secret History of Arsenal Football Club

The Secret History of Arsenal Football Club

Reading

Biography

New publication - Managing Football: An International Perspective

Managing Football: An International Perspective

From Webster to Matuzalem and the future of FIFA Article 17

From Webster to Matuzalem and the future of FIFA Article 17

Synopsis

Biography:

Why England Lose & Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained
- including “The Strange Death of the FA Cup”?

Managing Football:
An International Perspective