By Maria Ward-Brennan Big players are coming into sports fields recently, and no, I’m not talking about multi-million-pound Brazilian wonder kids, but big-ticketed lawyers who have fallen in love with the sports industry. Previously, the sports industry traditionally used specialist boutiques or mid-level market law firms for their work, however, the trajectory has changed and now big City law are increasingly getting involved. But why? Keir Gordon, partner at Charles Russell Speechlys, which has long-served sports, pointed out that the “large UK and US firms are seeing opportunities in sports…