A new app from The Sports Office promises to give senior staff top-level information from their key departments no matter where they are.

WHY, when a third of Premier League starters on the opening weekend of the season were BAME, are so few of the sports media who report on them?

HERE are the 10 lucky winners who will get a copy of Ben Lyttleton's brilliant new book Edge.

FOOTBALL clubs need to start using fair, transparent recruitment processes instead of relying on existing social relationships, argue Dr Dan Parnell and Dr Paul Widdop.

WHY coaches are challenging the notion that the collective always counts for more than the individual.

EDDIE JONES' Q&A at Soccerex was as intense and stimulating as one of the his coaching sessions. Read and listen to it here.

ENGLAND rugby coach Eddie Jones created back-page news with his superb session at the Soccerex conference this week.

TONY STRUDWICK, Manchester United's Head of Performance, is approaching 20 years as a practitioner in pro football. We caught up with him at Soccerex to talk about changes in the industry, Sir Alex Ferguson and Marcus Rashford.

GERMANY team manager Oliver Bierhoff says modern players are ‘independent entrepreneurs’ who will not accept the ‘command and control’ style of leadership.

CRYSTAL PALACE manager Frank de Boer has welcomed the appointment of Dougie Freedman as the club's Sporting Director.

ANTONIO CONTE now has nine Italians in his backroom staff following a duo of additions last month - making it the first time since Roman Abramovich took over in 2003 that not a single Brit is among the manager's assistants.

ARSENE WENGER says the manager of the future will not even need a football background, because his or her decisions will be based on science and technology.