Adam Hobart-Williams

@Adam___Williams

Tech Reporter at The Stack | Formerly Chief Sports Business Reporter at GRV Media, w/ six years covering sports biz | featured in The Times, BBC, City AM etc

London Joined June 2020

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Adam Hobart-Williams @Adam___Williams Nov 3

🚨 Exclusive for @TimesSport

Chelsea owners Clearlake own a site where Premier League tickets sold at vastly inflated prices - for every club except Chelsea

They also own global platform that lets pro touts sell through hundreds of resale sites at once

thetimes.com/sport/football…

www.thetimes.com Chelsea owner’s company resold Premier League tickets at inflated prices Co-owner Behdad Eghbali is also a director of company that owns reselling platform, while club threatens fans who tout tickets with lifetime bans

Adam Hobart-Williams @Adam___Williams Sep 23

Back-page exclusive for @CityAM

Tottenham Hotspur facing pressure from the council to sacrifice a fixed percentage of annual revenue for residents.

Haringey Greens accuse Spurs of “defaulting on planning obligations” attached to their £1bn stadium.

cityam.com/tottenham-hots…

www.cityam.com Tottenham Hotspur facing demands from Greens for percentage of revenue Tottenham Hotspur have been asked by Green-led Haringey Council to sacrifice a fixed percentage of revenue for Northumberland Park residents.

Adam Hobart-Williams @Adam___Williams Jul 30

JPMorgan in sport

- Helping FIFA privatise world football
- $4bn for European Super League
- Glazers' leveraged buyout of Man Utd
- Relocating St Louis Rams to LA via SoFi funding
- Seized F1 after Kirch collapsed, sold to CVC
- Actively turning sport into an 'asset class'

Rob Draper Verified account @draper_rob Jul 29

Looks like @jpmorgan will be facilitating Trump-Kushner-Gianni World Cup takeover

So with their reputation for corporate governance, I guess Jamie Dimon will be fully scrutinised on overseeing this sale from a federation that has been historically one of most corrupt in sport

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Adam Hobart-Williams @Adam___Williams Jul 9

BBC and Independent now covering story about Rovers being sued by Macron for £500k, as I reported last month.

Nick De Marco (barrister who's acted on behalf of 45 English clubs as well as Cristiano Ronaldo, Harry Kane and Tyson Fury) representing Macron

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Nick De Marco KC Verified account @nickdemarco_ Jul 8

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Adam Hobart-Williams @Adam___Williams Jun 22

If Cape Verde reach the round of 32, their FA banks $11m prize money.

That's 0.3% of their GDP. Apply that uplift to the US and it'd be over $100bn.

Okay, it's a crude metric... But the country's president has emphasised World Cup economic benefits too.

hitc.com/cape-verde-on-…

www.hitc.com Cape Verde on course to pull off FIFA World Cup feat which would be worth $100bn to the US Cape Verde have been the proverbial feel-good story of the 2026 FIFA World Cup so far.