Behind the scenes at Fox Soccer Channel, there was a significant signing last year when Fox recruited Bhavesh Patel from the NBA to head up the channel's FoxSoccer.com and FoxSoccer.tv websites, among other duties. While so much of the attention is on what happens on the screen at Fox Soccer Channel, we thought it'd be interesting and helpful to our readers to interview Patel and learn more about what's happening with the Fox websites and what the future plans are.

The reign of chief executive Ivan Gazidis reached a new stage yesterday with the announcement of three new senior appointments.

The first is new commercial man Tom Fox. He joins us from sports and entertainment marketing outfit Wasserman Media Group having previously worked for Nike where he was sports marketing director.

On June 26, Cristiano Ronaldo completed a $132 million transfer from Manchester United to Real Madrid. In strict business terms, Real Madrid bought an asset from another business in hopes of improving its own product. No government, federation or league was going to stand in the way of what Real Madrid thought was a smart business decision.