Held over a barrel
A guest post about the rise and unchecked rise of Middle East money in sport, PLUS: Midweek Book Club
The intersection between Middle East oil money and the sports-entertainment complex might seem like a modern phenomenon but it’s not - the influence of the region can be traced back to the 1970s.
There’s no more stand-out candidate for the zeitgeist of world sport at the moment than the blank-cheque approach from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to sign the b…
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