The way we do business is changing fast and in order to keep up, your entire mentality about work has to change just as quickly.
Unfortunately, most people aren't adapting fast enough to this change in the workplace, says marketing guru Seth Godin in an interview with the Canadian talk show "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight" (via Pragmatic Capitalism).

One emerging problem with the "benefactor model" of club ownership is "what happens next?" Blackburn Rovers have struggled with this problem since their 1990s benefactor, steel magnate Jack Walker, died in 2000. And current owners Venky's are not, yet anyway, the solution. Walker, who famously took Rovers to/bought the 1995 Premier League title, made some post-benefactor plans, forming the "Jack Walker Settlement" (JWS), a trust based in the Jersey tax haven, where he lived from 1974, when his riches attracted taxes which the great benefactor was.

By Chris Wright

It seems that, with the recession still biting and Robbie Earle no longer around to 'sort everybody out', the money men over at the ITV Football department have been reduced to extreme bouts of penny-pinching when it comes to providing match tickets for their pundits.

What can we expect in 2012 in terms of the business side of football? It's an almost unanswerable question because no one knows for sure what is going to happen to the world's main football economies, those of Europe. Asian countries are, of course, big and growing customers for televised games and the prospects there look reasonably good.

Fergie predicts transfer window spending bonanza

"I don't think the recession seems to apply to football," says United boss

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Elite football is not totally immune from the recession after all: the six national teams in Europe with the most lucrative headline sponsorships will go to Euro 2012 with combined deals worth less money than they had at the 2010 World Cup.

Average Premier League player picks up £1.1m a year

Despite the recession, top level wages keep on rising

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By Eric Beard

A newspaper, a café con leche or an espresso, a café, and a cigarette. Maybe a croissant as well. It's the stereotypical Spanish breakfast. Substitute a few tapas for the croissant and you more or less have lunch covered as well. But on the 1st of January, 2011, a newly enforced law in Spain interrupted the daily routine of millions.

In our first segment on RojaDirecta several years ago, we documented their success in Spain at defending a lawsuit vs. copyright-hostage-holders. However, the tides turned, and in our last segment, we mocked the idiocy of the US government for seizing the US domain name for RojaDirecta. Aside from the waste of tax dollars during a recession, the effectiveness was zilch.

It's no secret that Everton have been relatively inactive in the transfer market this summer – and also that this inactivity was not necessarily through choice. It has been revealed by Toffees chairman Bill Kenwright that their hands are tied by the financial constraints of operating in post-recession Britain – and there have been more unsettling words to have come from the man in charge of the Goodison Park purse-strings:
"We've come to a stage with our bank where we just can't borrow any more.

What are the odds King Kenny's Liverpool will be crowned champions? Derek McGovern's Bets of the Day

We're in the middle of a huge recession, we've got Noel Edmonds on TV, rioting on the streets of London and King Kenny back at Liverpool. It's like being back in the 1980s.

London, Manchester, Tottenham, and Birmingham are synonymous as classic Soccer locations, but this week they are recognized as places of disturbance and uncertainty.
Riots in England have reached an alarming level.

We May be Liverpool but we Should Always be United

As a four year old kid growing up inDublin's fair city, I had to make a decision that would have life changing consequences. Alas it wasn't a choice between the merits of Scalextric or Evil Kenevil. If only it was that simple.

Why Bryan Robson deserves his financial reward unlike mercenaries Modric, Cesc and Tevez

I stumbled across an interview the other day which had me beating the table as wildly as Rupert Murdoch in denial. It was given last summer by Luka Modric, after he'd signed a new deal at Spurs.

As the nation gears up for another FA Cup weekend journalists and TV producers are desperately searching around for the most romantic FA Cup angle to fill their endless coverage.
Non-league Crawley Town, the first side from outside the football league to get to the fifth round for 17 years, is an obvious story given they are heading to Old Trafford to take on the footballing behemoth that is Manchester United.

Upon announcing losses of £25.5million – underwritten by owner Ellis Short – Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn has gone on the offensive with regard to fans who watch his club's games in the pub or on internet streams at home.
Quinn is concerned about falling attendances this season, despite the club hovering in and around the top six.

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Unbelievably, I think I have unearthed a quite brilliant observation. Now bear with me, and if someone is reading this to you, I don't mean "let's get naked".

Anyone else noticed improvements in the performances of JD and Alex Song this season.

The recession is finally over! Or so it must be if you consider the record £225million spent this January by English clubs, compared to the measly £30million spent last January.

The excitement of transfer deadline day seems to send the footballing world crazy. Inflated prices are now part and parcel of transfer windows, as clubs scramble around to get the paper work sorted so that last minute deal can go through.

Recession? Don't make me choke on my meat pie. The English Premier League once again proved that its love affair with splashing the cash has in no way waned since the market crashed several years ago.

This season's January transfer window turned out to be one of the most lucrative in memory.

If January's transfer deadline day was football acting in a deep recession, the mind boggles at what will unfold should the good times roll once more.

Two British record transfer fees within minutes in a blur of aircraft and fast cars travelling between Tyneside, Merseyside and London as Liverpool and Chelsea sent the markets into a frenzy.