Two decades in the business of sport

Germany had just won a major tournament, the Clintons resided in the White House and Fifa was coming in for criticism for the award of a Fifa World Cup.  Although the instinct is usually to reflect on how much the world has changed when a publication celebrates a major anniversary, you might say there was a remarkably familiar feel to the global picture when SportBusiness Group was incorporated and the first edition of SportBusiness International rolled off the presses in July 1996, writes Ben Cronin.