100 days after the coronavirus put the Premier League season on hold, it returned on Wednesday, June 17th with a pair of matches. Nearly a week later on Thursday the 25th, Liverpool were crowned Premier League champions to cap off a 30-year wait between top-flight titles. How did the league,…
We reached out to our friends at Soccer.com for insights into the highest-selling soccer jerseys of 2020. As you may recall, we released a top 10 jersey sales list in 2019 and were anxious to see how things have changed. Different from last year, the majority of 2020 sales to-date…
With the lack of actual soccer matches now entering its eighth week, leagues and clubs are continuing to turn to esports as a way to entertain fans, appease corporate sponsors, and raise funds for various charities. We previously wrote about the growing popularity and role of esports during the coronavirus…
The resumption of the 2019-20 Premier League season’s final stretch may be unknown as the UK and the world attempt to slide tackle coronavirus; however, that doesn’t prevent us from looking back at the season. From the first match on August 9, 2019 to the most recent on March 9,…
We’re off and running in 2020! January featured just under 200 matches broadcast on TV. Given the holidays and several leagues on winter break, there’s no surprise the matches broadcast per day average was 6.1 – lower than the 2019 year-long average of 8.3. Despite the decrease there were still…
On this episode, the GESM crew discuss the biggest business-related soccer stories of the 2010s, as well as their favorite on-field moments from a decade that brought us three Men’s and three Women’s World Cups, as well as countless other soccer memories. All this and more in the latest episode…
