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...The deals keep coming: this week, Bay FC, which is majority-owned by US investment firm Sixth Street Partners, agreed to sign Zambian forward Racheal Kundananji from Spanish side Madrid CFF....
...Lucy FisherSo they’re broadly in the North Midlands. Luke TrylNorth Midlands. Lucy FisherJim, Luke mentioned Brexit being a huge factor in the switch taking place across the red wall....
...Women’s football: Aly Wagner, a former player on the US women’s national team, explains how she helped get Bay FC off the ground with the help of a novel funding model....
...Tales of disillusionment and failure in northern England and the Midlands were once the speciality of kitchen-sink dramas, not pop music....
...Highlights FC Barcelona and Real Madrid attracted a record-breaking attendance to their Women’s Champions League quarter-final, which was watched by over 91,550 fans....
...West Midlands mayor Andy Street this week unveiled a £3.2bn bid for Whitehall funds for the region’s recovery plan....
...Here, the co-author of Soccernomics takes readers on a tour of FC Barcelona’s closely guarded secrets....
...Liverpool FC’s original supporters in the 1890s, searching for their moorings in a city where life expectancy was 38, would have understood....
...The “most depressed” areas are all in the north and the Midlands. Brinnington in Greater Manchester comes off worst and a plush part of Westminster the best....
...s call for a football revolution, with Chinese tycoons investing more than $2.5bn over the past three years in 20 European clubs from giants like Manchester City and AC Milan to smaller outfits such as FC...
...Chinese investors have been particularly busy in the British West Midlands, with four clubs in the region now controlled by Chinese owners....
Reign of convicted money launderer Carson Yeung as club’s biggest shareholder set to end
...“No one in China has ever heard of West Bromwich FC” said Cai Wei, manager of Beijing youth league football club Guo’ao Yue Ye. “I think this is probably a case of football diplomacy....
...But the reign at Birmingham City FC of Carson Yeung, a former hair salon owner who became the first Chinese proprietor of an English top-flight team in 2009, ended in ignominy....
...His move means the four main football clubs in the West Midlands — West Brom, Aston Villa, Birmingham City and Wolverhampton Wanderers — now have Chinese owners....
...“No one in China has ever heard of West Bromwich FC,” said Cai Wei, manager of Beijing youth league football club Guo’ao Yue Ye. “I think this is probably a case of football diplomacy....
...Matt Ammerman at brokers INTL FC Stone says that “the crowd is becoming bullish” over soyabeans....
...In the West Midlands, Liam Byrne, the former Treasury minister and current Birmingham Hodge Hill MP, could enter the race....
...The detectives from the West Midlands were ostensibly investigating their South Yorkshire colleagues whose blunders in crowd management had created catastrophe....
Tycoon and Birmingham City FC part-owner freed to appeal money laundering conviction
...The ruling paves the way for possible criminal charges against the police officers and organisations involved, including the Football Association, Sheffield Wednesday FC and South Yorkshire ambulance service...
...Mr Hird cites the example of Ambition East Midlands, a social impact bond targeting youth homelessness that launched in January....
...Carson Yeung, the owner of Birmingham City FC, who was convicted of money laundering by a Hong Kong court on Monday, agreed to sell a chunk of the club three weeks ago to a mystery Chinese company with a...
...A tour of Sanghera’s house passes the hallway where, knotted over the banister, is a Liverpool FC scarf belonging to her teenage son, Jordan, the last of her children to live at home....
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