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Peter Sharkey
Peter Sharkey is the author of the Birmingham Post's Business of Sport column.
Build-up to Nailcote Hall: No hiding place in the bunker
Economic Development
Late nights and very early starts are hardly ideal preparation for one's first golf lesson in more than a decade, yet even the unassuming demands of friends visiting from Spain obviously include drinking well beyond midnight - before rising at 6am to ensure they're on time to catch their return flight to Valencia.
Build-up to Nailcote Hall: Guilty of taking eye off the ball
Economic Development
Following a disastrous performance in the April medal competition, it was essential to get back out on the golf course last Saturday.
Peter Sharkey: Premier League stragglers living dangerously
Economic Development
There's never a good time to experience relegation from English football's top flight, but going down this season could be financially disastrous for the three as yet unknown clubs who must formally sever their Premier League ties next month.
Peter Sharkey: The Midland golf gourse labelled 'better than Augusta'
Economic Development
As most of us were preparing to finish work on Wednesday night, Augusta’s annual par three competition, traditional curtain-raiser to the Masters which starts on Thursday, was getting under way, bathed in customary early spring sunshine.
Peter Sharkey: Football clubs need help from banks for financial fair play
Economic Development
In the Championship and divisions one and two of the Football League, 10 percent of clubs are showing evidence of what the firm calls ‘financial distress’, a sharp rise on the three percent level it reported in October.
Peter Sharkey: Nike walks the walk with the Trash Talk shoe
Economic Development
At first glance, Nike's green "vision of the future" reads much like any other corporate PR - but Nike has gone beyond righteous-sounding words.
Peter Sharkey: New agent could see the Bradley Wiggins brand soar
Economic Development
If Bradley Wiggins does move to a new management team, he can expect to generate significant sums of money for the rest of his life.
Peter Sharkey: Cash concerns for Formula One teams - but not Red Bull
Economic Development
Despite its ready association with glamour, jean-clad film stars and oodles of money, the next two years promise to be exceptionally tight for Formula One.
Peter Sharkey: New golf courses being aimed at the super-rich
Economic Development
In these straightened times, one wonders why billionaires are prepared to contend with the criticism and condemnation that invariably accompanies their application to build new golf resorts when so many existing courses are up for sale and participation in the game is falling.
Peter Sharkey: The Aston Villa letter which spawned the billion-pound game
Economic Development
Earlier this week, telecommunications giant BT clinched another audacious rights deal as the company continued its determined attempt to make a serious impact upon the domestic television market when its two BT Sport TV channels launch this summer.
Peter Sharkey: Formula 1 reaps rewards of playing by the rules
Economic Development
Sport's infrequent dalliances with stock markets have tended to be unconsummated affairs.
Peter Sharkey: Huge profits out-muscling the war on drugs in sport
Economic Development
Imagine the enormous returns on investment available should you be in a position to both supply performance-enhancing drugs to sportsmen and then illegally influence a sporting outcome after you’ve also bribed the referee.
Peter Sharkey: Sports fans could benefit from Sky's battle with BT
Economic Development
We should not expect BSkyB simply to stand aside and allow BT to loosen its grip on Premier League football without a fight
Peter Sharkey: Final chance for football to get its house in order
Economic Development
The Government has announced that, if English football is unable to implement change under its own steam, then legislation might be the only option.
Peter Sharkey: Post-Olympic funding crisis hits minority sports
Economic Development
If, according to former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, seven days is a long time in politics, it’s also a sufficiently lengthy period to encounter further evidence which highlights the enormous financial discrepancies between one sport and another.
Peter Sharkey: Rory McIlroy made for life after joining Nike's family of stars
Economic Development
Prior to emerging in the sun-drenched emirate of Abu Dhabi on Monday, Rory McIlroy had found himself present at a low-key, behind-the-scenes ceremony in the USA at which he was, no doubt, reminded of his contractual obligations.
Peter Sharkey: Drugs admission could bankrupt Lance Armstrong
Economic Development
Reports which suggested that Lance Armstrong is about to confess to the doping allegations that have destroyed his reputation appear, for the time being at least, to be well wide of the mark.
Peter Sharkey: Finding the right value in the football transfer window
Economic Development
The January transfer window, a period of questionable value, especially to employers, is prefaced by reams of newsprint devoted to how much clubs have to spend and forecasts of who will be moving where and at what cost.
Peter Sharkey: UK Sport could provide more funding for schools
Economic Development
To truly encourage grassroots sport, there may be greater merit in capping the pay of chief executives at our august sporting bodies and paying PE and other teachers a little more to resurrect competitive sport in our schools.
Peter Sharkey: Ecclestone finds right formula for selling grand prix racing
Economic Development
The so-called gentrification of sport has created a widening strata of well-heeled sports fans, each keen to enjoy the action up close accompanied by a clutch of friends, and often a gaggle of hangers-on.
Peter Sharkey: Sports tourism to be a major fixture for Thomas Cook
Economic Development
In 2008, the global value of travel and tourism was approximately $5.9 billion.
Peter Sharkey: Low-cost gyms gathering momentum
Economic Development
Prolonged spells of economic uncertainty are, almost inevitably, periods when people develop an enhanced sense of budget consciousness.
Peter Sharkey: Football pays the price for new breed of billionaire owners
Economic Development
Who, among Europe's elite coaches, would consider heading towards Stamford Bridge, if even winning the Champions League offers no guarantee of long-term employment?
Peter Sharkey: League Cup is the One to be on after goal glut
Economic Development
Admittedly Aston Villa are through to the competition's quarter-finals following an ultimately narrow win over Swindon, but there hasn't been as much national interest in the League Cup since the Milk Marketing Board became the competition's inaugural sponsor in 1982 and two young Scousers memorably discussed Ian Rush and Accrington Stanley in an iconic TV commercial.
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