The tin-pot dictator to tin-pot pipeline.
money
Michael Johnson's gold shoes from Atlanta 1996
Gotta gold fast!
Lyon just got relegated to Ligue 2 due to financial problems. The owner and club officials met with the DNGC to try and sort things out (they were provisionally relegated in November 2024) but couldn’t come to an agreement. The seven-time Ligue 1 champions will now play in the second division for the first time since the 1988/89 season.
Route None on Latvian football clubs and why they keep folding
You only sink when you’re winning.
Some links about the Olympic Games
Time to dig into the history of one of the the greatest quadrennial sporting events.
The World Cup, yeah! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (in terms of return on investment)
Money, Money, Money by ABBA is played out in this context but that about sums it up.
TIL: a New York Yankees and LeBron James-led consortium has gained ownership of AC Milan
What’s the Italian equivalent of “it’s raining reddies”?
Denver Broncos to sell for $4.65 billion; Homer Simpson is not the buyer
‘It’s not the Dallas Cowboys but it’s a start.’
What are the odds of winning a protest at the Olympics?
Flip a coin. Heads we win, tails we lose and they get a few more coins as payment for protesting.
The phoenix clubs of Yorkshire and their attempts at a renaissance
Can these phoenix clubs pull off into paradise again?
Dennis Rodman and his former coin-collecting agent
If you learn anything from this post, let it be the word ‘numismatist’.
Swiss Ramble's Twitter thread on Barcelona's financial troubles
The club that says they’re ‘más que un club’ will need to go on ‘menos que otros clubes’.