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Thank you to all those people who have responded so far!

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like chico tell me to p!ss off if you like, but i covered a similar subject a few years back

a lot of this recent stuff followed what happened in australian cricket. look up Kerry Packer and some of his dealings. he was the one who went to war with rupert murdoch in the super league wars

if your covering media in football look at deloites report for richest clubs in europe (summary report is free to download) and compare this to how tv money is distribtued in eahc nation. compare that to spending etc

also try:

‘The Political Economy of Sport’, Edited by J. Nauright and K.S. Schimmel

Gerrard, B. (2005), ‘Media Ownership of Teams: The Latest Stage in the Commercialization of Team Sports’, from ‘The Commercialization of Sport’, Edited by Slack, T., Routledge, Great Britain

Conn, D. (1999), ‘The New Commercialism’, from ‘The Business of Football: A Game of Two Halves?’, Edited by Hamil, S.J., Michie, J. & Oughton, C., Mainstream Publishing Company, Edinburgh

I've just bought that [iThe Business of Football[/i book off Amazon. Thanks for all the info though guys. Greatly appreciated.