Chelsea continue to hemorrhage money after announcing a loss of £67.7million for the financial year ending June 30, 2011.

That is only a slight drop decrease from the loss of £70.9million in 2010, as Chelsea struggles to fall in line with UEFA's new financial fair play rules.

Since Roman Abramovich bought the club, Chelsea have now lost a combined £620million.

Apple is interested in bidding for the UK TV rights to the Premier League, says a report in The Daily Mail. The Premier League's live UK rights for 2010-13 raised £1.782bn when they were sold to Sky Sports and ESPN UK during the summer of 2009.

Apple is interested in bidding for the UK TV rights to the Premier League, says a report in The Daily Mail. The Premier League's live UK rights for 2010-13 raised £1.782bn when they were sold to Sky Sports and ESPN ...
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Learning from other sports is often a good exercise. I recently discussed how football could use a golf type handicap system to make the UEFA's Financial Fair Play easier to apply for some of Europe's most debt driven clubs. Football could also learn from tennis. I had already referred to this sport when debating on the current World Cup 1st round group stage which is contrary to the spirit of any cup type competition.

FOX winning the TV rights for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup tournaments is, in a strange way, a victory for the Premier League. FOX Soccer has built its soccer empire on the success it has achieved with U.S. ...
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Spain's centre-right People's Party said it will push Real Madrid and Barcelona to have more equitable distribution of income from television rights, according to PP policymaker Miriam Blasco.

"You have to support the small teams as well, because it's true that the Spanish league would not exist if it was not working for all the clubs," Blasco, a candidate to become Spain's top sports official after the election, said in an interview.

Phil Rothchild has/is up there with one of the least professional sports journalists in Australia - lots of biased assessments of football over the years so nearly fell out of my chair at this one.
Thing is many of these so-called journo's could have talked positively about football down the years, him, FitzSimons, Birmingham, Bolt, Wilson and the rest but for some reason they choose not to - small minds I guess - but here is our Phil doing his bit to spruik the game when clearly there is no need to.

Some fascinating comments by Barcelona president Sandro Rosell today in which he wants to see the Spanish league cut from 20 clubs to 16, limits placed on wealthy foreign owners and a more equitable sharing of TV revenue.

Speaking at the International Football Arena conference, Rosell said:

"My opinion is that our league has too many clubs.

For many the Spanish Primera Liga is the ultimate two-team league. You have footballing powerhouses Barcelona and Real Madrid, and then you have the rest, scratching around for scraps.
The way Spanish clubs negotiate their own TV rights also means that this inequality is merely magnified when it comes to finances – the big two able to command fees far higher than the rest.

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Sky face Premier League TV rights battle from Al Jazeera

Satellite broadcaster BSkyB could lose its exclusive live coverage of Barclays Premier League football to the Arab TV channel Al Jazeera.

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Today is about the Union sitting at home and waiting for three other teams to either succeed or fail. The Inquirer breaks down the Union's prospects for falling into the wild card game.

Bottom line: Union fans basically have to watch Kansas City, Houston, and Columbus this weekend and hope they don't win.

There have been many times when I have blasted ex-Arsenal players, that have become TV and newspaper pundits, who continue to knock Arsenal when we are down.
These 'experts' claim to love the club yet jump on a bandwagon that has gained more pace than Frank Lampard chasing an ice-cream van down a hill.

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Fox has won the bidding for the USA English language TV rights ($450 Million) for the 2018 & 20222 World Cups. Meaning ESPN is out. And Telemundo gets the Spanish language rights in USA ($600 Million). Univision is out.
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New York claimed the last available MLS playoff spot last night.

Sources: FIFA To Award Fox U.S. TV Rights In Surprise Move

The FIFA World Cup will have a new U.S. TV partner in '18 and '22, with several sources saying that Fox will pick up the English-language rights. FIFA has informed the bidders and is planning to announce the winners at some point today or early next week.

FOX has won the English-language TV rights in the United States for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments, says several sources to Sports Business Daily. "FIFA has informed the bidders and is planning to announce the winners at some point today...
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Foreign owners discuss end to relegation, says League Managers chief

• Americans 'looking at having more of a franchise situation' • Aston Villa surprised and confused by Richard Bevan remarks The chief executive of the League Managers Association has warned that owners of a number of Premier League clubs are talking about trying to scrap promotion and relegation in order to safeguard their investments.

Revealed: What Liverpool MD Ian Ayre's name means in Lebanon, plus Roy Hodgson's book club

Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre's suggestion that Premier League clubs should be allowed to sell their own overseas TV rights – thus benefitting established clubs while leaving the little guys to twist in the wind – will go down well in the Middle East.

Liverpool have good day at the office as owners seek an equitable life | Paul Hayward

Kenny Dalglish's men have begun to turn the corner in their efforts to rebuild Liverpool's standing in the market place Until this week there was the sense of it being one long handshake – one big nod to the Kop tradition – but now Liverpool's new owners are getting down to business, coveting a larger share of overseas TV rights and bemoaning the cost of modern players.

Forget TV rights and stadium deals: this is no time to betray the Hillsborough 96

The ghosts in the public gallery of the House of Commons will listen intently tomorrow. Their stories will be told in a scandalously overdue ­parliamentary debate on the Hillsborough disaster.

Ayre-headed idea is a leaf out of Kenyon's blotted copybook

Liverpool believe they have a sound economic case for breaking up the collective agreement on overseas TV rights. And when your club attracts 40,000 Asians to training sessions you could probably use that as evidence Far East broadcasters aren't paying a fortune to show Blackburn or Bolton.

Ian Ayre defends Liverpool TV rights stance

Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre has defended his stance on overseas television revenue but stressed the club has no intention of 'damaging the league'.

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Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre denies TV rights breakaway threat

The Liverpool managing director originally talked up a move for the Premier League heavyweights to break away from the current television rights deal in order to increase income

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Ayre on TV rights

Ian Ayre today insisted that Liverpool Football Club weren't looking to sell their own overseas television rights.

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"Greed is good." -- Gordon Gekko.Sure it was the international break, but some big news (more of a talking point) came down this week when Liverpool Managing Director Ian Ayre made comments about blowing up the structure of how the Premier League's international television revenue is shared and distributed.

Liverpool fire starting gun of self-interest in the Premier League | David Lacey

Despite what they may say about TV rights, if there is profit to be had by the big clubs, it will be had and to hell with the rest What is a league? According to the dictionary it is both "an association of persons, nations etc formed to promote the interests of its members" and "an association of sporting clubs that organises matches between teams of a similar standard".

How Ian Ayre wants to make the Premier League even less competitive

Isn't it funny that this week the most popular man in certain parts of Manchester is a representative of Liverpool Football Club? On Wednesday Liverpool managing director Ian Eyre stated that when it comes to overseas broadcasting rights, each Premier League club should be free to negotiate their own television deal.

The greed of Liverpool Football Club is astounding given the fact they want to sell their own overseas TV rights and in the process kill of half of the Premier League.

They, well their managing director Ian Ayre, wants to adopt the Spanish model, where individual clubs have the freedom to negotiate their own packages based upon their global popularity.

Coyle hits back at Ayre

Bolton boss Owen Coyle has hit back at Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre following his comments on the sale of overseas TV rights.

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It was always a risk for Liverpool to stick their head above the parapet and suggest Premier League clubs should negotiate their own TV rights.
The proposal – like the deal currently used in Spain – would allow Liverpool to try and cash in on their worldwide appeal, rather than coming as part of a complete 20-club package that we have at present.

Liverpool's TV rights idea is scandalous Dave Whelan

Wigan chairman Dave Whelan says Liverpool's call for clubs to sell their own television rights would 'kill off half the Premier League'.

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Martinez warns Premier League not to copy La Liga TV rights deal

"Real Madrid and Barcelona are getting richer and the others are finding it harder, year by year, to compete. That is great for the two football clubs but no good for the league," says Wigan boss

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Sport Witness translate JT's statement on CPO and take the piss out of the FA for their handling of Rooney

The Telegraph wonders how Rooney will respond to Kop abuse.

United Rant discusses Vidic's International retirement.

The Daily Mail reports on opposition to Liverpool's TV rights plan.

Government Sports Minister Hugh Robertson has publicly rejected Liverpool FC's call for top clubs to be able to negotiate their own overseas TV rights. He joins a growing chorus of dissenters, including Chelsea FC and Wigan, whose Chairman Dave Whelan yesterday called Ian Ayre's comments on the subject 'diabolical'.

Liverpool want a larger share of the overseas TV rights money currently negotiated collectively by the Premier League on behalf of the clubs and have raised the prospect of negotiating their own deal

Arsenal executive Ivan Gazidis warns against Barcelona & Real Madrid-style TV rights system for Premier League

The Gunners chief fears a switch from the way clubs currently operate would see an imbalance develop like in Spain, where the top two dominate and leave others trailing behind

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Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre believes the option for Premier League clubs to sell their overseas television rights on an individual basis would be a 'game-changer'.
The league's broadcast rights outside of the United Kingdom are presently sold in a joint package, which is worth £3.2billion for 2010-13 to be shared equally among the 20 clubs.

Rival clubs have distanced themselves from Liverpool's demand for more cash from television rights - with one top-flight chairman claiming the move would "kill the heart and soul" of English football.
Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre said the bigger clubs should get a greater share of the £1.

Whelan: Liverpool's TV rights plan would 'kill the heart and soul' of English football

Reds chief Ian Ayre wants to negotiate overseas TV rights individually

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Liverpool's demand for greater share of TV rights 'part of a mission to create European Super League'

Club's demand for greater share of TV rights 'part of wider mission to create European elite, says Wigan owner.

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