‘We are all Foxes Now’: sport, multiculturalism and business in the era of Disneyization

Williams, John; Peach, Jack

doi:10.1080/17430437.2017.1346616

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“…First among the approached taken by clubs seeking to expand both globally and glocally seen in recent years has been the exploitation of franchising in football (Williams and Peach, 2017;Kerr and Wijeratne, 2020). Not to be conflated with the North American leagueteam ownership structure and relationship, wherein professional sports organisations are purchased by team owners from a central league entity, granting the owner and team exclusive regional rights, in the context of global sport franchising refers to the acquisition or creation of a portfolio of brand extensions.…”

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Networks, strategy and sport: the case of City Football Group

Chadwick

Burton

Widdop

et al. 2023

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PurposeThis study examines the networks and strategy of Manchester City Football Club and City Football Group, central to the group's emergence as a global entertainment organisation with a network of franchises worldwide.Design/methodology/approachThe study employs a case study design to examine both Manchester City Football Club and City Football Group (CFG)'s strategy. Drawing upon an extensive review of documentation pertaining to CFG's strategic vision and approach, a network analysis of the brand's constituent clubs, partners and state- and corporate-investors was conducted, providing a macro-level view of CFG's use of global franchising, media partnerships and commercial agreements to extend CFG and the City brand internationally.FindingsThe study's findings afford a unique insight into CFG's efforts to monetise and globalise through franchising, which provides insights into the convergence in sport of politics, entertainment and business. Namely, how the global strategy enacted by CFG and the Abu Dhabi government (its owner) has leveraged sporting properties successfully. In turn, it extends their geopolitical and economic networks and grows the parent City brand as a global entity.Research limitations/implicationsThe study's findings afford a unique insight into CFG's efforts to monetise and globalise through franchising. Namely, the global strategy enacted by CFG and the Abu Dhabi royal family (its owner) has leveraged sporting properties successfully. In turn, it extends their geopolitical and economic networks and grows the parent City brand as a global entity.Originality/valueThe research represents an important step in examining the strategy of football club ownership and global club networks within sport. In this respect, the present research provides a new way to understand sport in a globalised, digitised and geopoliticised operating environment.

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Networks, strategy and sport: the case of City Football Group

Chadwick

Burton

Widdop

et al. 2023

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“…An examination of the English club Leicester City, an outsider with 5,000-1 odds of winning the English Premier League in 2015–2016, revealed that the team was owned by a Thai businessman, managed by an Italian, had 18 different nationalities in its first team squad, and was located in one of England's most multicultural cities. As Williams and Peach ( 57 ) point out, almost a quarter of a million people turned out to welcome their local heroes upon their title triumph, in a city of 330,000. Pockets of locals, from a diverse set of cultural backgrounds, all celebrated soccer together on that day, with new friendships created and culture shared.…”

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Dictating play to the left wing: Does soccer make you more Democratic?

Rewilak

2023

Front. Sports Act. Living

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There is a correlation between soccer's popularity and states that traditionally vote Democrat in US elections. This has led to claims that where democrats lead, soccer follows. Yet, this relationship may not be entirely stable, as soccer may stimulate the Democratic party vote through its multicultural elements. Using the 1994 World Cup as a plausibly exogenous shock that positioned US soccer, we investigate whether US states that hosted the tournament increased their Democratic vote in future Presidential elections. A two-way fixed-effects estimator and a dynamic difference-in-difference estimator shows that if a US state was a 1994 World Cup host, it increased its Democratic vote share. However, when examining Major League Soccer franchises, this relationship breaks down but recovers when investigating the women's World Cup in 1999 and 2003. As the swing states of Florida and Georgia are hosting 2026 World Cup matches, the findings may hold key insights for the 2028 Presidential election.

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“…Leicester City FC is an English professional football club, competing at the first-tier division of England's football league system and has achieved a feat that only seven clubs could achieve by winning the Premier League in the season 2015/16 which was the 111 th season in England's football league. A little-heralded with a medium skilled player, no European heritage, and without expending much on players won the EPL title (8) . This feat meant a lot to them as they got a chance to take part in UEFA Champions League in the following season and made history by making their first-ever appearance in the club's history to date.…”

Section: Annals Of Tropical Medicine and Publicmentioning

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Comparative Analysis of Leicester City’s English Premier League Title Win

Parvez¹,

Raizada²

2020

ATMPH

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Background: Football is a complex game as it requires much game plan, different strategies according to opponents with some statistics. It was a fairy-tale for the sporting world as an underdog team went on to win the premiership with making their core team strong. In this paper, the season 2015/16 of premier league has been investigated and the researcher has analysed how Leicester City emerged as the champions and what went wrong with the big clubs, looking at Leicester City's last 5 years journey against all odds and logic. Two major aspects of the footballing world have been mentioned which have a great influence and impact on the team's performance i.e. Transfer market and Manager's impact. Methods: The data was collected through Several journals, research papers, blogs, newspapers, and articles. Conclusion:The club's signing of players was outstanding in the transfer window and the team got good players in reasonable amounts. The manager's game plans and strategies with the team's efforts lead them to success. Their ball possession was negligible while they excelled when it came to counterattack. Finally, they have bagged the title with team effort. We cannot say that it was all about luck as a lot of team involvement was seen and everything felt in the right places at the right time. Indeed, it was a roller coaster ride for them.

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‘We are all Foxes Now’: sport, multiculturalism and business in the era of Disneyization

Cited by 4 publications

References 27 publications

Networks, strategy and sport: the case of City Football Group

Networks, strategy and sport: the case of City Football Group

Dictating play to the left wing: Does soccer make you more Democratic?

Comparative Analysis of Leicester City’s English Premier League Title Win

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