Football fans are accustomed to poring over star-studded team sheets and arguing over contentious decisions. But increasingly it is the roster of top barristers on the club payroll and the complex legal wins they secure that are becoming the hot topic in post-match conversations.
Football executives, lawyers and financial advisers agree that one factor in particular has contributed to the current outbreak of “lawfare” across the game: money.
Many now fear the situation risks becoming the new normal for the world’s most popular sport.
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