Money, football and MPs

There’s been a couple of stories in the media this week about football and money, two subjects which seem inextricably linked.

First, Deloitte announced that the total revenue earned by the Premier League clubs reached £1.9bn during 2008/09 – at the same time, the poor old 72 Football League clubs could only manage a meagre £500m.
The Premier League [...]

Dame Ann Leslie – a titan of Fleet Street

One of the best media events I’ve been to recently was the appearance by Dame Ann Leslie at a Birmingham Press Club celebrity lunch.
For those who don’t know, Dame Ann is one of last of the titans of Fleet Street. She actually began her career in Manchester at the ‘Daily Express’, a paper which she [...]