...The Future of Manchester United Introduction Manchester United are widely known as the name for Champions. In the twenty-one seasons of the English Premier League history, the Reds have shown their domination by winning the titles for thirteen times. For the same period in the UEFA Champions League, the dramatic comeback victory in the Final of 1999 against Bryan Munich and the breathtaking penalty shoot out win against Chelsea in the Final of 2008 led United becoming the Kings of Europe twice. Winning titles has gradually become a habit to the club and an expectation to the fans. Factors to succeed over the years United’s secret of success is well-known as Sir Alex Ferguson, who simply is the icon of the club. Over the past twenty-six years, as the manager of the club, Sir Alex has won thirty-eight trophies in all competition and made United the most successful football club in the history of English football. From time to time, his leadership and management philosophies have been studied worldwide and he gave the answer to success at a speech at the Harvard Business School in winter 2012. “The key to managing a club like Manchester United is to maintain the consistency and to pursue sustainability”, said Sir Alex Ferguson. During a season from August to May of the next calendar year, the premier league consists of thirteen-eight games and winning each of them is equally important. Arsenal, Manchester City and even United themselves, used to lead the table for...
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... and mismanagement is happening everywhere, in any European soccer clubs. Soccer is eating itself! Over the past years, there is no doubt that European football leagues have dominated the soccer market, for they have been popular and reputable since decades ago. The most popular ones consist of English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, Italian Serie A, and German Bundesliga. These so-called ‘Big Four’ leagues has possessed indisputable control over the soccer market, notably prices charged for broadcasting, match tickets, signings of players, advertisements and even betting activities. Therefore, it is said that the ‘Big Four’ has made up an oligopoly market structure. In particular, it is regarded as homogeneously oligopoly, since all leagues offers entertainments connected to football. There might be slight differences in services provided such as different time of kick off for different leagues, but pricing for services such as broadcasting, ticketing are near identical, making the time factor insignificant. Back to the main objective, how will the domination of ‘Big Four’ affect the economy of soccer market in Europe? First of all, the nature of oligopoly must be identified. The usual dilemma faced by oligopoly firms is that whether to compete or cooperate with each other. Definitely, English Premier League and Spanish La Liga can never collaborate with each other, for the football clubs are from different countries, and it is ridiculous for international soccer matches...
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...threatening as other jobs like soldiers and doctors. Currently the top ten players in the world earn between $15million to $50million a year, compare this with normal jobs where people earn $32,000 a year. The highest earning player is David Beckham who earns approximately $966,000 per week, working out to be $50 million per year (Kaitlin Madden).The only way to control the salaries of soccer players is for the soccer bodies such as UEFA and FIFA to put a cap on the amount of money a team is allowed to spend on player wages. No countries currently have a cap although Italian soccer teams had looked into it a few years ago but never went through with it. A cap system would not only lower wages but would ensure fairness between all the teams in a league. It is hard to justify these soccer players getting paid so much when they no longer seem to have any passion for the game. When players are representing their country playing for the national team many no longer sing the national anthem when it is being played before the game unlike the rugby players who sing there national anthem with such pride. It seems that soccer players are now only in it for the money and they don’t even care about winning cups or medals anymore. An example of this is a soccer player called Lucas Neil who when it came to choosing which club he was going to play for he chose to go and play for West Ham, even though he was being offered a contract with Liverpool who are a much bigger club with a far better history...
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...south-east London, and were renamed Royal Arsenal shortly afterwards.[8] The club were renamed again to Woolwich Arsenal after becoming a limited company in 1893.[9] The club became the first southern member of the Football League in 1893, starting out in the Second Division, and won promotion to the First Division in 1904. The club's relative geographic isolation resulted in lower attendances than those of other clubs, which led to the club becoming mired in financial problems and effectively bankrupt by 1910, when they were taken over by businessmenHenry Norris and William Hall.[10] Norris sought to move the club elsewhere, and in 1913, soon after relegation back to the Second Division, Arsenal moved to the new Arsenal Stadium in Highbury, north London; they dropped "Woolwich" from their name the following year.[11] Arsenal only finished in fifth place in the second division during the last pre-war competitive season of 1914–15, but were nevertheless elected to rejoin the First Division when competitive football resumed in 1919–20, at the expense of local rivals Tottenham Hotspur. Some books have reported that this election to division 1 was achieved by dubious means.[12] Arsenal appointed Herbert Chapman as manager in 1925. Having already won the league twice with Huddersfield Town in 1923–24 and1924–25 (see Seasons in English football), Chapman brought Arsenal their first period of major success. His revolutionary tactics and training, along with the signings of star players...
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...cost and the promotional cost. The total estimated cost will be 117 million Yuan. For details of the breakdown, please refer to Appendix 2. The maintenance aspect would contribute 98% of the total estimation which includes the broadcasting license fee and the daily operation/maintenance cost. The digital broadcasting license which TenCent Sports acquired at 115 million Yuan for the 2015 -2016 season will be absorbed by WeSoccer. Furthermore, to deliver extensive data analytic of the football match, soccer expert and celebrities will be hired for blogging and editorial writing. To develop the MVP, WeSoccer will integrate the WeChat platform and the TenCent Sports application in order to deliver high quality live streaming of the Premier League with social interaction. The development cost refers to the one-off interface development of the WeSoccer application and the Research and Development cost (“R&D”) for future enhancement. Due to the fierce competition in soccer live streaming, it is curial for WeSoccer to avoid user attrition and enhance user experience. To allocate the R&D resources effectively, the 80/20 rules will be applied. 80% of the R&D cost allocated annually will be used on existing feature enhancement such as the live streaming technology enhancement and the remaining will be used for customer feature request and the “nice to have” features. For acquiring new users and enhance WeSoccer awareness, online ads and soccer event sponsorship will...
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...managerial skills at their respective clubs. Sir Alex Ferguson was born in Gaslow Scotland on 31 December 1941. As a youth he stated developing a passion for football. He stated playing as a striker at the age of 16 for Queen’s Park. Even with a good soccer it was hard for him to secure a space in the first team and hence he transferred to another club. He stated his professional footballing career when he was signed by Dumfermline of St. Johstone. He has a great career and was one of the top scorers of Scottish Football League. Alex Ferguson’s managerial career was a slow start with amateur clubs in Scottish Football first division. It was in his late 30 that Ferguson was offered the job to manage Aberdeen a club where he cemented his reputation as a top-flight manager. He broke the stronghold of Scottish football which are Celtic and Rangers FC, in over eight seasons he led Aberdeen to three Scottish Premier League titles, four Scottish Cups, a league cup, a super cup and a European Cup winner’s Cup. Only in November 1986 did Ferguson get the call from Manchester United board of directors to come and take and over the underachieving and struggling Manchester United. His job...
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...Manchester United lost the Premier League title on the last day of the season, but they still lay claim to another title, though: The world’s most valuable sports team. Forbes estimates Manchester United (Man Utd) is now worth $2.23 billion, 19% more than No. 2 Real Madrid, which is worth $1.88 billion. *What are the main sources of equity for the Man Utd? Brand equity is the most important asset of organization. Why a number of world-wide fans are fanatical about Man Uted? It is hard to choose the one thing, but I’d like to tell that Man Utd’s main source of brand equity is ‘Good Perceived Quality.’ Perceived quality drives financial performance, often a major strategic thrust of products, and linked to and often drives other aspects of how a brand is perceived. Man Utd had a lot of hardships and was in adversity in their history. Overcoming many troubles, they played interestingly and have a lot of talented players, so this gives the people catharsis when they watch aggressive and dynamic matches of Man Utd. Thereby getting across this perceived quality to people, they love Man Uted as a brand. **What does Man Utd’s CBBE pyramid look like? 1. Brand Identity: Salience- England premier league football team 2. Brand Meaning Performance- with talented players, excellent performing foot ball team, landed many kinds of championships during long time. Imagery for the public- self-esteem when customer using, wearing their items historical, experienced Imagery...
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...Football fans The person who thinks, talks about and is oriented towards sports even when [the fan] is not actually observing, or reading, or listening to an account of a specific sports event.(Spinrad ,1981) A fan is a person who is passionately devoted to something such as a sports-team, band or entertainer. Fans of a sport or thing constitute a fan-base or fandom (Wiki-Answers). Most of us enjoys going to sporting events and no matter what the event is, there are excitements associated with these events and more so thinking that our team will win and if they win we go home happily and if it loses we get somehow upset or sad. Despite all this, we have different categories of sports fan in our societies and everyone who follows sports falls in one of these categories. The categories include: Diehard fans - no matter how the team that they are supporting does, they will always support it and won’t miss any game or news at all about their team. They knows every player on the roster, position they play, and uniform number. Casual fans – these are averaged or below average followers of their team. They stick and follow their teams, but not to the extent of following every game. Mostly they know a few star players. Fair-weather fans – these are the one that follow and cheer for their teams only when they become successful. They have no loyalty to their teams when they are in down period experience. The Pessimist - They talk only during commercial breaks. Pessimist might...
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...ACCRA-POLYTECHNIC GROUP-8 Questions 1. Acquire a marketing plan of a company in the financial, telecom or airline industries. 2. Summarize the outline they have used. 3. Critically examine the outline and content of the plan. HUTCHFUL LEWIS, 01134095 ADJEI PEPRAH MAVUS, 01134012D OFORI IRENE, 01134157D YUSIF RASHIDA, 01134289D APPIAH MENSAH JUNIOR, 01134401D ADAMU HAMDIYA, 01134251D AGYARE KWABENA MALVIN, 01134021D Barclays Bank marketing plan outline 1. Executive summary 2. Company description 3. Situational analysis 4. Marketing objectives 5. Marketing strategies 6. Marketing mix 7. Monitoring and control 8. Budget 9. Appendix Critical examination of the outline and its content executive summary The marketing plan of Barclays Bank focuses on introducing new innovative strategies to expand market share of Barclays Bank. The executive summary places emphasis on the 1. Objectives to achieve 2. Marketing strategies needed to achieve the objectives Company description This hinges on the fact that A. Barclays Bank is one of the leading operations in the UK financial sector with exposure to Europe, north America, middle east etc. B. Barclays was established in 1690 by John feame and Thomas Gould C. Barclays is embroiled with a number of controversial subjects such as aggressive investment trading and tax avoidance schemes. Situation analysis Barclays Bank focuses on the industry...
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...`WHAT MAKES A GREAT SPORT LEADER? Page 1 GENUINE EFFECTIVE SPORT LEADERS OR JUST LAZY, INEXPERIENCE SCUMS! The good Sports leaders must have four essential Qualities in order to be effective in what they do, if a Sport Leader does not have these skills, this automatically means they are FAKE shams of an effective sports leader. Having only some of these skill qualities result in ineffective Sport Leaders, who are too lazy to acknowledge these advance skills to succeed. Sports leaders who don’t have these skills should not have honour to have LEADER in their profession. The First quality that is vital in being effective in sports leadership is the Knowledge of Sports Skills, so in this case meaning the Sports Leader must have a good knowledge of the participant’s skill development, technical ability and technical demands in order to carry out the session correctly and successful. This will thus help the sports leader make a decision on what specific, simple skill is require to help the participant succeed in the activity and enjoy it at the same time. This will then make the sessions fun and not too difficult. Moreover, these factors are very important to know. For example, one of my close friends was a former sports leader, and I came along to one of his session to watch him performs in his sports leadership sessions; he did a football session with the kids. I watched the session and he turned a difficult football session into a fun one for the children...
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...The advancement of technology has had a huge impact on a global scale in the last 20 years. Many things have improved drastically because of this advanacement; wether it be space travel or sending an instant message to your friend. Among those sectors who have benfeited is sport. With the advancement of IT in the sports sector, sports is now enjoyed on a global basis through the countless dedicated sports channels throughtout the world. Such of the magnitude of viewers sports comands, it remains an integral part of our society. The new technology available to sport not only affects the number of viewers but also athlethes, coaches, trainers, referees and many more. One advantage of technology in sports is the use of software to assist the referees in making important decisions in a match situation. A case study I will look at is the use of 'goal-line technology' in soccer. It can be described as ''a method used to determine when the ball has slightly crossed the goal line with the assistance of electronic devices and at the same time assisting the referee in awarding a goal or not.'' (Wikipedia). A chip is planted inside the playing ball and is linked to a device on the referees wrist. When the ball triggers the sensors on the goal line by crossing the goal line, it will triggger a signal that is sent to the referees device on their wrist. The referee then is sure the ball crossed the line for a goal, and this elimnates the human error factor in awarding goals in soccer...
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...ECO 455 RESEARCH REPORT PREPARED BY: SYED ANWAR SHAMS 083413020 NOWFEL ABU EUSUF 083397520 FOOTBALL IN BANGLADESH FACULTY: DR. A.F.M. ATAUR RAHMAN DATE OF SUBMISSION: 18.08.2011 NORTH SOUTH UNIVERSITY ACKNOWLEDGMENT First of all, we would like to thank the almighty Allah for giving us the Knowledge to conduct the entire research for this course. Then we definitely thank our respected faculty member (Dr. A.F.M. Ataur Rahman) for making us familiar with the precise process of making a quality research report through his scholastic Guidance. We would also like to show our gratitude to the following people, who have been extremely helpful till the completion of the entire research report, They are the beloved Family members, especially the parents who have given us all the love and support. It’s never possible to complete any task without their blessings. Our respondents for taking the time to fill out the Questionnaires for our research report. They showed valuable interests during the survey which also helped us to heighten our confidence. The authors and web publishers for letting us use all the information that we have incorporated as our secondary sources. We would also like to show our appreciation to North South University for giving us the knowledge and also for granting us access to the resource premises and print out some of the Questionnaires that we have needed. We also...
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...March 2016 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | Social media | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | Event | | | | | X | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Magazine | | | | X | | | | | | | X | | | | | X | | X | | | | | X | | X | X | | | X | Tv-Commercial | X | X | | | X | | | X | X | | | X | | | X | X | | | X | | | | | | | | | | | Billboards | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | | | | | | | | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | | | | | | | | X | Poster | | | | | | | | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | April 2016 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | Social media | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | Magazine | X | | | | | | | X | | | | | | | X | X | | | | | | X | X | | | X | | | X | | | Tv- commercial | | X | | | X | X | | | X | | | X | X | | | X | | | | | | | X | | | X | X | | | X | | Billboards | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | | | | | | | | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | | | | | | | | X | X | X | Poster...
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...the incident, soccer fans traded accusations with the Interior Ministry, which blamed the violence on riots from ticketless fans who tried to push their way in. Violent clashes before Egyptian soccer match 5 photos EXPAND GALLERY "They climbed the fence. The security forces tried to disperse them, the fans fled to the main road and blocked traffic and stopped the bus carrying the Zamalek soccer team," the ministry said in a statement. "They set fire to a police vehicle. We got reports of fatalities because of a stampede." But Zamalek fans painted a different picture. In a social media posting, they said they were tear gassed as they tried to go through a single, small gated entrance that was opened to allow them into the match. Premier league...
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...Master Manager. 1.Phil Knight An American business magnate and philanthropist, Philips Hampson Knight was born on February 24,1938. He is the co-founder and chairman of Nike,Inc. and previously served as the chief executive officer of Nike. Knight set out on a trip around the world after graduation, during which he made a stop in Kobe,Japan in November 1962. It was there he discovered the Tiger-brand running shoes, manufactured in Kobe by the Onitsuka Co. So impressed with the quality and low cost, Knight made a cold call on Mr. Onitsuka, who agreed to meet with him. By the end of the meeting, Knight had secured Tiger distribution rights for the western United States. Knight's first sales were made out of a now legendary green Plymouth Valiant automobile at track meets across the Pacific Northwest. By 1969, these early sales allowed Knight to leave his accountant job and work full-time for Blue Ribbon Sports.Jeff Johnson, a friend of Knight, suggested calling the firm Nike, named after the Greek winged goddess of victory. Nike's logo, now considered one of the most powerful logos in the world more for its ubiquity than its aesthetic merits, was commissioned for a mere $35 from Carolyn Davidson in 1971. Phil Knight have managed Nike, Inc. with full of confidence and efforts then make his business become well known worldwide. Starting from $500, Phil and his former coach track,Bill Bowerman invested to start Blue Ribbon Sports, the progenitor to Nike. That shows his will...
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