Hints and tips:
...Last Sunday, the city’s National Football League franchise, the Ravens, narrowly lost their bid for a berth in the Super Bowl, following defeat at the hands of defending champions, the Kansas City Chiefs...
...We spoke to the club’s chief executive earlier this week....
...The Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers are neck and neck, and Taylor Swift is stressed....
...Saudi football club Al Hilal has approached Qatar-owned Paris Saint-Germain with a €300mn bid to sign Kylian Mbappé, a record-breaking offer for the French forward....
...The kingdom has also been busy beefing up its domestic football clubs by offering lucrative contracts to late-career stars such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema....
...How Chelsea and City broke the old elite’s grip on the Champions League final The Uefa Champions League, the pinnacle of European club football, is the trophy every player wants to win....
...It is against this background that Hopp et al have raised their heads above the parapet....
...Many Chinese investors seem to have adopted these tactics when they went on a breakneck $2.5bn spending spree in European football from 2014 to 2017, acquiring stakes in or ownership of more than 20 clubs...
...As Dutch football writer Borst’s love-hate portrait of Van Gaal makes plain, this state of affairs is unlikely to last....
...Big-money football and American football teams don’t share information in the same way....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...The sleepy town of old has become a noisy city, packed with matatu buses plastered with slogans of English football clubs splashing through the puddles. Fifty years ago Kampala had 46,000 inhabitants....
...Devil in the detail Colin Gillespie, the PwC partner who led the team advising Liverpool Football Club through months of takeover negotiations, is no Kop-ite....
...By Frank’s standards, Springfield is as much la-la land as Kansas. The city is a ghost-town of the manufacturing Midwest....
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