In the modern Business School, Corporate Social Responsibility is probably the single most debated topic of the past couple of years. We aim to cast a spotlight on how the business of football has faced up to this challenge in 2011; but for now, the sport’s impact on the Environment, a crucial element of this overall whole, deserves the most pressing concern.Any study of how we can be greener demands collaboration from a number of actors. So, although it seem that clubs and the game’s governing bodies have been remiss in paying attention to the natural world at large, it’s…
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Sharing with the Oval Ball: the Cons
In last month’s print edition of When Saturday Comes, the ever reliable Roger Titford analyzed the pros and cons of sharing one’s ground with purveyors of the oval ball. The piece sounds a note of warning: my fellow blogger Scarf is rightly incandescent at Stockport’s unequal alliance with Sale Sharks and if Reading’s relationship with London Irish is better, there is still unease among the Royals’ support.Most annoying is the local media’s occasional comparison of the clubs’ respective gates and Titford enlarged upon this in his missive, showing how rugby crowds have grown encouragingly while football league attendances have declined….
20 Years of New Stadia
It’s now over twenty years since the publishing of Simon Inglis’s seminal The Football Grounds of Great Britain, a book that predated Hillsborough and the first of the breed of stadia, Scunthorpe United’s Glanford Park. So, I thought it would be informative to analyze some of the successes of the subsequent period: an era that has seen great change impinge upon the game. Debate as to what the turning point was - the aforementioned disaster, the setting up of the Premier League, Italia 90, MDMA, all seaters, Fever Pitch and even Michael Thomas’s 1989 winner at Anfield for chrissakes -…
TTU Awards 2009/2010: Best Ground
How does this category differ from best away trip? Well, if your historic city centre has been overrun by chain pubs, become the stag party capital of the United Kingdom and enjoys the distinction of hosting Britain’s only branch of Hooters, then the positioning of the stadium in the opposite direction of downtown certainly helps…and as the egregious Tory Kirsty Allsopp would say, it’s all about location. The Trentside aspect of the City Ground, a venue for European Cup semi finals, just across the way from the cricket pitch and a little down the road from the bargain basement Meadow…
College Football Synergies
A few days stateside at the start of 2010 have allowed me to tune in to some of the College Football Bowl Season, recently capped by the University of Alabama’s first national championship since 1992; the Crimson Tide having defeated the University of Texas in Pasadena’s historic Rose Bowl arena (scene of the 1994 World Cup Final) on Thursday. Of course, the whole shebang can seem as alien as Chinese opera to British viewers, with media coverage outside the US and the internet roughly equating to zero. For all its parochialism, however, I think there are important parallels to be…
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