By Stephen Foster on December 7, 2011
It’s a bad night for both Manchester United and Manchester City in the Champion’s League – Man U lost 2-1 to Swiss ‘no-hopers’ Basel and City beat Bayern Munich but failed to qualify for the knockout stages because Napoli beat Villareal in Spain. So, for the first time in years, England has only two teams [...]
Posted in Clients, News | Tagged abu dhabi, arsenal, barcelona, basel, bayern munich, Champions League, chelsea, David Gill, Glazer family, manchester united, manchster city, napoli, real madrid, Sir Alex Ferguson, villareal
By Stephen Foster on August 31, 2011
Ever since the crash of 2008 the world’s bankers, many of whom have pitched their tents in the UK, have had more verbal ordure heaped on them than any group of people since, well, the last religious martyrs in Western Europe. But are they bothered? No, it would seem, as the UK banks’ concerted and [...]
Posted in Clients, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Angela Knight, arsenal, Arsene Wenger, barclays, Bob Diamond, british banking association, David Cameron, George Osborne, honk kong, hsbc, independent commission on banking, lloyds banking group, lobhbying, manchester united, Nick Clegg, pr blitz, RBS, Sir Alex Ferguson, Vince Cable, wall street
By Stephen Foster on May 25, 2011
What happens on the pitch is only half of it in football these days (but it always has been a game of two halves) with footballers clogging up the courts with injunctions and boardroom battles. London Premiership team Arsenal, for decades supposedly run by gentlemen in contrast to the vulgar types in charge at other [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News | Tagged Alisher Usmanov, arsenal, Arsene Wenger, chelsea, Danny Fiszman, David Dein, emirates stadium, Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith, manchester city, manchester united, north london, Peter Hill-Wood, Roman Abramovitch, Stan Kroenke, steel magnate, uzbekistan, walmart
By Stephen Foster on April 4, 2011
When Richard Desmond bought Express Newspapers a decade or so ago he caused outrage in Fleet Street with his rough ways. These supposedly included meeting delegates from the Telegraph with a goose-stepping routine and his butler interrupting meetings to bring him a banana on a silver platter. But Dessie looks like he’s going to have [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged arsenal, channel 5, daily express, daily mail, Jonathan Rothermere, news of the world, northern & shell, ok!, richard desmond, Rupert Murdoch, Sun, sunday exporpess
By Stephen Foster on December 23, 2010
It’s hard to find anybody with a bad word to say about David Bernstein, the former Manchester City chairman and FCUK director, who has been elected chairman of the Football Association. But nobody has many brave words to say for him either. Alan Sugar, who would have liked the job, tweeted: “He never offends anyone [...]
Posted in Clients, News, Politics | Tagged Alan Sugar, Alisher Usmanov, arsenal, David Bernstein, David Dein, fcuk, fifa, football association, pentland, reebok, Sepp Blatter, Sir David Richards, Sir Keith Mills
By Stephen Foster on April 22, 2010
Forbes magazine has produced its latest valuation of the world’s top football clubs and, once again, Manchester United comes top with a valuation of £1.19bn. Mind you, Newcastle United, recently promoted from the Championship, also makes the top ten which leads you to think that these American journos have a slightly sketchy understanding of the [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged arsenal, Forbes, glazers, manchester united, real madrid
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