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Wild Transfer Window Shows How Premier League Towers Over Soccer Original

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By Mike Jakeman Verified
| Front Office Sports Verified
In this summer’s European soccer transfer window, which closed Tuesday, it was again clubs in the English Premier League that flashed the cash. The league’s 20 teams spent a combined $4.7 billion in transfer fees on 315 new players. That was more than the total spent by clubs in Italy ($1.39 billion), Germany ($939 million), Spain ($877 million) and France ($670 million) combined. This is becoming a familiar story, but the numbers remain striking.
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The Premier League Has a Star-Power Shortage: ‘More About the Drama’ Original

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By Mike Jakeman Verified
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The Premier League continues to cast a shadow over the rest of the world’s soccer leagues. Nine of the 20 biggest clubs by revenue belong to the English league, according to Deloitte. The Premier League makes more from its overseas broadcasting rights alone (£2.1 billion/$2.8 billion a year) than any other league makes from its total broadcast revenue; its clubs generate almost twice as much from ticket sales (£920 million/$1.2 billion) as its nearest rival, LaLiga in Spain.
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What the Saltburn cricket scandal says about the fallibility of man

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By Mike Jakeman Verified
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You know you are in trouble when Piers Morgan describes your behaviour as ‘outrageous’. Earlier this week a cricket fan, Ben Mummery, posted footage from a village cricket match between Saltburn’s second XI and Norton. The 15-second clip zoomed in on the fielder at first slip, named online as Brian Devine, who clicks the fingers of his left hand at the same time as the ball passes the outside edge of his opponent’s bat. The ball nestles in the gloves of wicket-keeper Josh Bowes.
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