European football is underpriced risk.

by raffaella cardarelli | Feb 5, 2023

  It’s been a humbling week for Italian football on various fronts. The scandal enveloping Juventus, and other clubs, around false accounting threatens a 2006 Calciopoli redux for the industry of soccer in the Bel Paese. Some people would like to see the Turin...

I just believe in me, Yoko and me!

by roger mitchell | Jan 29, 2023

One of John Lennon’s first post-Beatles compositions is a song called God, a personal favourite. It starts with the killer line: God is a concept, by which we measure our pain.  So powerful a lyric that he repeats it. As a young man, a theist to boot, this...

Arabian Knights are the last game in town.

by roger mitchell | Jan 22, 2023

I tuned into the Apple documentary on the Superleague expecting a lot of whining, to quote Teddy R. I instead thought it was very good. Especially in realising that, whilst this proposed solution didn’t work, the problem isn’t going away. Au contraire,...

Is Open AI a threat or an opportunity for sport?

by roger mitchell | Jan 15, 2023

In my adult life, if I reflect back on 40 years of career, I think I have seen four big moments of total disruption. Only 4. The introduction of the personal computer (PC) with the Wintel duopoly, the arrival of the Internet, the invention of the i-Phone and now,...

Sport’s storytelling is Jackanory.

by roger mitchell | Jan 8, 2023

What comes first, the story or the storyteller?  For what it’s worth, in a period where we are seeing such fresh new creative talents in our timelines, one of the best pieces of content I saw in 2022 was the simply magnificent Rick Mayall on Jackanory, from many years...