Explaining open sports leagues to Logan Roy.

by roger mitchell | Jun 4, 2023

  Leicester did go down and karma had its pound of flesh. Yeh! That Column a couple of weeks ago, ended with an open question: The cost of keeping the tradition of relegation is crippling. Just killing sport. So we can’t have it both ways. And, at some point, we...

The quest for sport content that pays its way.

by roger mitchell | May 28, 2023

  The industry of sport talks endlessly about what it needs to do, to find and engage fans. I am as guilty as anyone in boring people to death.  What I’m personally not so sure about, is an even simpler question: What are the things that we have, that...

Karma is a bitch. Addio Leicester.

by roger mitchell | May 21, 2023

  I have always been a “you make your own luck” type of personality, whereas Karma is something I’ve only grown to appreciate much more as I’ve gotten older. The co-founder of our startup client, Spuma, is a very young man of astonishing calm in that...

Souness, a proper football man.

by roger mitchell | May 7, 2023

These weeks, the media is filled with the obvious humorous jibes at the adjective “spursy”. Recent results, (with “recent” being defined as the last 50 years), have facilitated the endless gag of Tottenham as eternals losers. Spursy as a brand has always been there of...

America hates losers, with one exception.

by roger mitchell | Apr 30, 2023

  “Where have you gone, Joe Di Maggio?” I took a call this week from Connor Barwin, the ex NFL linebacker, currently serving as the Director of Player Development for the Philadelphia Eagles. He has now bought the Italian basketball team in Trieste. We chatted...