The problem with business news is that it is really, really, REALLY boring, but a bigger problem is that it is kind of really important and as the football business (as it is a business after all) grows, so does the importance of business news grow.
So, the men’s Team GB football team have joined their female counterparts in the quarter finals of the Olympic Games, albeit with some more scares along the way.
As promised yesterday, a blog post about the impact that Team GB has made on the football in the Olympics so far and, in a remarkably prescient move, what an apt decision to delay writing a post about that team until tonight.
Silly season in football is in full swing with pre-season yet to hit top gear, transfer sagas in their mindless speculation stage and the Olympics rightly taking up all of the newspaper inches.
There are a number of long-running issues in football that remain unresolved that anyone with half a brain can see will at some point result in large ramifications that can be avoided if tackled early enough.
The FIFA world rankings system has come in for an awful lot of stick lately and rightly so for reasons about as numerous as the number of times a Premier League football drops a c-bomb on the pitch.
Reading through some of the transcripts of the opening day of the John Terry case I was reminded of the amusement of the first time hearing swear-word heavy exchanges between people in a court room situation.
The latest club to be taken over by ambitious owners are Championship side Watford. The Pozzo family have wasted little time in outlining their plans for the Hornets, and have already replaced manager Sean Dyche with their compatriot and former West Ham manager, Gianfranco Zola.