{"id":203446,"date":"2025-10-10T17:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/203446\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T17:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:22:20","slug":"english-footballs-best-team-is-stevenage-not-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/203446\/","title":{"rendered":"English Football&#8217;s Best Team Is Stevenage, Not Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">  Welcome to the Business of Sports newsletter. This week we look at the top performing club in English football (Hint: It\u2019s probably not who you think it is.) Our London-based sports reporter David Hellier won the coin toss to go to Rome and mingle at the annual meeting of football bosses. And   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2025-10-10\/how-dick-s-sporting-goods-loyalty-program-helped-spur-a-13-billion-boom\" title=\"How Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods\u2019 Loyalty Program Helped Spur a $13 Billion Boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">    check out how much  <\/a>   fellow reporter Ira Boudway has spent at Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">  As always, send us any feedback, tips or ideas   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2025-10-10\/mailto:gturner35@bloomberg.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">    here  <\/a>  . If you aren\u2019t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/account\/newsletters\/business-of-sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">    here  <\/a>  .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Business of Sports newsletter. This week we look at the top performing club in English&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[24885,64,63,99,512,126632,2057,13201,596,13202,18461,2022,3576,85],"class_list":["post-203446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-china","tag-david-hellier","tag-europe","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-gianni-infantino","tag-industries","tag-london","tag-rome","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}