The Edge

Richard Northedge takes on corporate finance

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Blowing the whistle on football sickies

Football matches and sickies go together like World Cups and sore heads but with the recession just over – and possibly returning – will so many workers risk losing their jobs this year to see their team losing the game?
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Marks & Spencer and the corporate transfer

How appropriate that the terms of Marc Bolland’s recruitment to Marks & Spencer (LON:MKS) were announced on the last day of the football transfer window.  M&S is paying a £7.5m fee to attract him from rival retailer Wm Morrison (LON:MRW).
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Rangers and Celtic should be selling the TV rights, not buying

Football finances have always defied logic but the union of Glasgow’s top clubs to outbid Sky for the Scottish Premiership television rights takes madness to new levels. Celtic and Rangers are supposed to receive the rights money, not pay it.

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