Wyn Grant

Based in the UK Wyn Grant covers the business of football for Albion Road, contributing a monthly roundup of the biggest items in the news. Wyn manages a couple of websites of his own, including The Political Economy of Football and the Addick's Championship Diary about Charlton Athletic. Wyn occasionally appears on Sky Sports News and Radio 5 and is a regular contributor to Radio Scilly's friday evening sports show. Poor Wyn is a lifelong Addicks supporter, a rough job in recent years.

 
What will 2012 bring for the business side of football?
Written by Wyn Grant   
Tuesday, 03 January 2012 21:45
Wyn GrantWhat can we expect in 2012 in terms of the business side of football? It's an almost unanswerable question because no one knows for sure what is going to happen to the world's main football economies, those of Europe. Asian countries are, of course, big and growing customers for televised games and the prospects there look reasonably good.   In the States, against a background of slow economic recovery, the game will continue its steady progress.
 
No one is forecasting any significant recovery for European economies in 2012. The big question is whether they will enter another recession. That in turn depends on what happens in the eurozone crisis. Italy in particular has to finance a big tranche of debt in the first three months of the year. If Italy can't sell its debt, the whole eurozone is at risk. For what it's worth, my bet would be that although it is possible that Greece may exit, the eurozone as a whole will survive because Germany wants and needs it to succeed.
 
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