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Peter Sharkey
Peter Sharkey is the author of the Birmingham Post's Business of Sport column.
Competition is hotting up to keep nation fit on tight budget
Opinion
There’s little doubt that during extended spells of economic uncertainty, people develop an enhanced sense of budget consciousness.
Build-up to Nailcote Hall: Knee ailment is a worry
Economic Development
We follow Peter Sharkey's progress as he prepares to play in the Farmfoods British Par 3 Championship, staged at Nailcote Hall.
Build-up to Nailcote Hall: Playing at being a pro
Economic Development
We follow Peter Sharkey's progress as he prepares to play in the Farmfoods British Par 3 Championship, staged at Nailcote Hall.
A healthy workforce equals more chance of a healthy profit
Opinion
If the state of the nation’s economic health was not sufficiently bad for us to worry about, there’s also plenty of evidence to suggest that the general condition of our physical health is, at best, ropey.
Build-up to Nailcote Hall: Beware Vans at Nailcote!
Economic Development
We follow Peter Sharkey's progress as he prepares to play in the Farmfoods British Par 3 Championship, staged at Nailcote Hall.
Banks open for business in the global battle to get lion’s share
Opinion
Peter Sharkey writes "This tour is already guaranteed to go down in history as the Lions’ most profitable, comfortably surpassing the £4 million net profit made on the tour of South Africa in 2009."
Scandal threat keeping the Tour de France cheap for its sponsors
Opinion
Peter Sharkey writes "In Porto-Vecchio on Saturday, the Grand Depart will signal the start of the one hundredth Tour de France, a 212 kilometre opening stage hugging the island’s east coast."
Build-up to Nailcote Hall: Bernard brings back memories
Economic Development
We follow Peter Sharkey's progress as he prepares to play in the Farmfoods British Par 3 Championship, staged at Nailcote Hall.
Entrepreneurs now making sure golf tourists know the score
Opinion
Peter Sharkey writes "Fabio Peral and Antonio Conde realised that by applying a straightforward statistical method to the inevitably subjective process of rating golf courses and golf travel packages, they could effectively eliminate bias and rank the golf industry more effectively and objectively. And so, on June 7, Golfboo.com was born."
Build-up to Nailcote Hall: One foot in the Algarve
Economic Development
We follow Peter Sharkey's progress as he prepares to play in the Farmfoods British Par 3 Championship, staged at Nailcote Hall.
Abramovich kicks the soft approach into touch at Chelsea
Opinion
Peter Sharkey writes "Jose Mourinho appeared in a blaze of flashbulbs, ready to sprinkle some much-needed stardust on an organisation widely disliked for the manner in which it has tried to assume the mantle of a ‘big club’ without necessarily appreciating the corresponding need for humility such status infers".
Build-up to Nailcote Hall: Beware... Cars a new hazard!
Economic Development
We follow Peter Sharkey's progress as he prepares to play in the Farmfoods British Par 3 Championship, staged at Nailcote Hall.
French league plays Russian roulette with Monaco
Opinion
People consider Rybolovlev’s billions a threat to French football. His decision to challenge the LFP through the courts is seen as establishing an extremely dangerous precedent.
Build-up to Nailcote Hall: Chance to meet sporting royalty
Economic Development
More than a quarter century ago, I spent four years working as an accountant for an American multinational in Saudi Arabia.
London 2012 Olympics legacy inspires a chain reaction
Opinion
A greater number of people have taken up cycling, either as social or occasional riders, commuters or holiday cyclists.
Build-up to Nailcote Hall: Peter Sharkey is following Kevin Keegan's advice
Economic Development
Europe's star names will play a bigger part in shaping the European Tour schedule in an attempt to combat the lure of the PGA Tour in America.
Build-up to Nailcote Hall: Crowd will raise nerves
Economic Development
Grandstand? Did he say 'grandstand'? He did.
Peter Sharkey: Organisers may have to forget profit at Rugby World Cup
Economic Development
Even though we’re more than two years away from the Rugby World Cup in England, concerns regarding its funding are already to the fore.
Build-up to Nailcote Hall: Grown men as whining divas
Economic Development
Women, of course, possess an innate sense of such matters; their instinctive powers of perception and natural understanding of relationships are on a completely different plane to that of men, something I had cause to acknowledge (again) last weekend.
Peter Sharkey: A major player comes into the market
Economic Development
Though it wasn't quite on a par with that other major sporting announcement made last week, in terms of commercial scale it was enormous, significantly affecting equity prices in two companies with a combined market value of £37 billion.
Peter Sharkey: Sir Alex's successor must satisfy Wall Street as well as fans
Economic Development
It was a classic 'hold the front page' moment. The biggest news in domestic sport since Britain was awarded the Olympic Games in 2005.
Build-up to Nailcote Hall: Be wary of crossed lines
Economic Development
Pitching wedge in hand, I wandered away from a brief period of putting practice intent on chipping a few balls towards the hole at the far end of the putting green.
Peter Sharkey: BHA must clean up racing if they want to keep Al Maktoum in UK
Economic Development
Horse racing has always possessed a faint whiff of roguishness, a sense that, away from the sport's highest echelons, were you to lightly scratch the surface, evidence of small-scale wrong doing and fixing would become immediately apparent.
Peter Sharkey: Germans putting the bite on their Euro competitors
Economic Development
It felt less like the cultured passing of a baton and much more like the ripping of football's figurative staff from the very bosom of its spiritual home for the past five years, an act executed with the force and brutality of a seriously aggrieved party.
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