Real Madrid are making the same mistake that kills most founder-led businesses.

Southampton are my football team. Have been since the early 1990s. I won't pretend that's been a glamorous journey. Less ups and downs. Mostly downs. So I have some stake in what's happened. With the Championship play-offs, and a potential £200 million prize for promotion to the Premier League on the line, a Southampton performance analyst was allegedly spotted at Middlesbrough's Rockliffe Park...

1-0 to the Arsenal. West Ham are almost certainly relegated. And in between those two outcomes sat 4 minutes and 11 seconds that nobody, not the officials, not the pundits, not the managers, not 60,000 people watching in the ground, will agree on. Gary Neville called it the biggest moment in VAR history. Arteta said it was an obvious decision. West Ham's players said it was physical football, a...

Now we'll see what it's actually made of. The whole thing was built on disruption. Big names, big contracts, and a level of Saudi capital that made the traditional golf establishment genuinely nervous. Away from the controversy, though, I've always had a pretty basic question. Subscribe to keep reading this post newsletter-post-show-join-tokens#openJoinModal:stop:prevent" ...