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Last week the twelve Premiership Rugby clubs and London Irish RFC decided to reject the reported £500m offer from CVC Capital Partners for a 51% stake in Premier Rugby Limited.

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah is reported to have escalated communications in an ongoing legal dispute with the Egyptian football association.

The Premier League was revolutionised by the EU single market. Clubs can sign any European player they want without needing to apply for work permits thanks to the EU’s freedom of movement of people.

Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa Inc (NRFSA) is privileged to be representing Ms Mokgadi Caster Semenya who is in the process of challenging the legality of the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) “Eligibility Regulations for the Female Classification (athletes with differences of sexual development)” (Regulations).

Whilst somewhat in its infancy, over the past decade wearable technology in professional sport has grown to become a large global industry.

The football transfer window is big business, with the world record transfer fee standing at €220 million for Neymar Jr’s transfer to Paris Saint-Germain in 2017.

There is an increasing trend among funders of elite sports clubs to require them to be reformed as limited companies so that they are no longer unincorporated associations.

Should golf speed up? Probably not what Bob Dylan was thinking about when he wrote the lyric, but golf is one of many sports looking at itself now and wondering what changes it should make to its format to make itself more attractive to Generation Z, and the iGeneration coming next.