If you’ve seen the Senna movie it should help you understand why there is so much concern at the Webber / Vettel scenario that unfolded once again, this time in Sepang.  Like many people, I’d forgotten just how vitriolic the feud between Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost had become. It reached a stage where the...

At the recent iSportConnect Directors' Club, I asked the panel what they saw as the single biggest game-changer for our industry in the next five to ten years. Tim Ellerton of Heineken (representing the sponsor's view) was delighted - as was I - with the response of Ian Ritchie, CEO of the Rugby Football Union.

Ritchie outlined the need...

Like most people, I was shocked to wake up on Valentine's day to hear news of a shooting at Oscar Pistorius' house in Pretoria. Shock quickly turned to concern for those involved and before long the super-human athlete whom I had been privileged to watch in the flesh during the London Olympics was being dissected in microscopic detail by an array...

Wow, there are a lot of rightsholders out there looking for sponsor deals at the moment. Most of the conversations I have - either first or second hand - are pretty similar: "we're looking for X but we'll take two thirds of X". I can empathise with a lot of industry colleagues because, especially in this market, they're all selling essentially the...