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SPORT Premier League to share TV spoils


Following criticisms that the new £5.14bn TV deal recently secured for rights to air the Premier League wasn’t benefitting most of English football, football’s most popular league has promised that £1bn will be redistributed down the English pyramid all the way to grassroots level. Speaking after a March


meeting of the top flight’s 20 clubs, Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore said that each club would distribute £50m each over the course of the next three seasons. “Tis is unprecedented in world sport. You


Te English Premier League recently secured its largest ever TV deal


can’t find me another sport that is commit- ted to this level of sharing,” said Scudamore. “It’s sharing in the success of English football and this, in my view, is the right thing to do.” The £1bn sum – which could increase


depending on international TV deals – represents at least a 40 per cent increase over the existing agreement. Tat deal includes parachute payments for relegated clubs and solidarity payments to the Football League and Conference. Notably, the new deal includes


significant investment in grassroots football, facilities and further fan engagement, with more money going to clubs which subsidise tickets and travel for away supporters. At the meeting, fan groups protest-


ing outside were demanding a fivefold increase in the away fans’ fund, which sub- sidises away travel, to £1m per club per year. Whether the new deal will be enough to satisfy those groups remains to be seen, but Scudamore said ticketing will largely remain a matter for the clubs to decide. Details: http://lei.sr?a=X7x9T


UK Sport review looks beyond Rio 2016


The UK Sport board is undertaking a review of its performance investment policy to set future direction for high performance sport beyond the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Following an exten-


sive stakeholder and public consultation, the UK Sport Board was asked to consider the findings of study, conducted by research consul- tancy ComRes, to determine the best way to build on the success of the UK high performance system to date. Te consultation revealed that 86 per cent of


Mo Farah’s Olympic medal haul is one of UK Sport’s major success stories Te body also hopes to collaborate further


sports and partners, and 70 per cent of public respondents endorsed UK Sport to continue to focus on Olympic and Paralympic medal success as a key goal. Following the report, UK Sport has said it will explore wider impact factors (beyond medals) including participation levels in its measures of success if required to make investment decisions around sports of equal medal potential.


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across all of the home nation sports councils to better align the high performance system and develop a common investment policy at per- formance foundation level and to continue to invest in an eight year pathway, with room for a longer period of investment should finances allow. Since UK Sport formed in 1997, Team GB has risen from 36th to 3rd in the Olympic medal table. Details: http://lei.sr?a=M6k6t


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