This site is a personal blog maintained by Dr John Beech,
Head of Sport & Tourism Management at Coventry University.

John is a co-director of the Centre for the International Business of Sport and author/co-author/co-editor of a range of books, book chapters and journal articles on various aspects of sports management and English football management in particular.

His research has been reported in the Financial Times, the Times, the Independent and the Observer, and featured on BBC1’s Football Focus. He broadcasts regularly and has appeared on the BBC’s World Service, Radio 5 Live and Radio 4 as well as British and Polish television.

John maintains detailed data files on over 200 English football clubs, covering strategic, managerial, marketing and financial issues.  He will consider requests for access to them from academics (including PhD students, but not Masters or undergraduate students [purely on the grounds of potential request numbers]), journalists and broadcasters.

The aim of the blog is to offer commentary on current (and, to a much lesser extent, historic) issues in the management of English clubs and, as appropriate, the governance of the clubs and leagues. ‘English’ in this context, means clubs that play in English leagues, thus including, for example, Cardiff City and Merthyr Tydfil.  Where non-English clubs provide interesting examples, whether positive or negative, that are of relevance to English clubs, they will on occasion be covered.  This may thus, on occasion, include SFA or FAW clubs, or non-British clubs, but the focus of the blog remains English clubs, and not the wider range of British clubs.

Serious debate is encouraged.

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Disclaimer: This is a personal blog and the opinions expressed are those of the author. They are not endorsed by Coventry University and do not necessarily reflect the views of Coventry University.