Football is a funny old game. That's what we're always told, anyway.

I chuckled away last month when I heard Adam Crozier, the former head of the Football Association, had been appointed chief executive of Royal Mail.

Chairman Allan Leighton said Crozier's modernising touch was a "very powerful cocktail"

that would restore the service to being the best in the world.

The company also recruited Elmar Toime, chief executive of the New Zealand Post, to the position of executive deputy chairman but Crozier is the main draw.

Unfortunately, success on the field doesn't always bode well for a booming business.

It's game over for more than 70 staff at Rage after it lost its match against the receivers.

The Liverpool-based videogames publisher, famous for its David Beckham Soccer title, will no longer be calling "over here son, on me head", which is a real shame.

Publishers take a greater proportion of revenues than developers but also have much larger risks because of the marketing and distribution costs for products, which often fail commercially.

Videogames are booming but -

football or no football - a number of key players are not.