Setting senior executive pay in sport is a balancing act. Over the last thirty years, sport across the UK has transformed from a semi-professional pastime into a multi-billion-pound industry. Yet, despite massive commercial growth, the sector still grapples with its traditional roots, community expectations, and (incredibly) emotional fanbases. Managing a sport governing body, a leading motorsport team, or an elite football club demands corporate leadership, but when we loo

Tackling abuse, harassment, and discrimination in sport is often treated as a problem exclusive to top-flight football. Yet having worked in elite sport for nearly 30 years - spanning professional football from the Premier League right through to the National League, alongside professional Rugby Union and Rugby League - I know first hand that looking after your people is something every leadership team and board genuinely needs and more often than not wants to get right. From

If you hand a standard employment contract to an elite athlete, you are quite literally asking for chaos. In most UK businesses, HR is predictable. You hire someone on an open-ended deal with agreed terms, pay them a salary, and follow standard employment law, but in the world of elite sport, where you are often managing high-value, high-profile assets, the legal landscape completely changes. Here's how sports agreements rip up the rulebook: Resignation v the transfer windo