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The David McWilliams Podcast

198 - The economics of Football

The David McWilliams Podcast

David McWilliams

News & Politics

4.6643 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

There's an extra episode this week!Thanks to the folks at NOW we're bringing you the economics of football to understand clubs really work, what are the incentives driving their behaviors and how in many ways they mirror our broader economy as a whole.

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0:00.0

What in the world is happening on Wall Street?

0:03.7

Economic indicators.

0:05.3

Who knows where this is going to end up?

0:07.3

To understand the economy, you have to understand human nature.

0:13.5

This podcast is powered by ACAST.

0:19.0

How you doing there? It is podcast time. Now we have a little gem, a little gem, particularly if your weakness is football.

0:28.4

We have a podcast today all about the economics of football and it's sponsored by Now. You know the deal with Now.

0:37.1

You can stream on Missable Live action from the premiership all in one place with Now Sports

0:41.9

and Now Sports, extra membership from a tenor.

0:45.2

Actually, this is going to be a really good conversation.

0:48.5

Me being the sport, Billy and all.

0:50.2

But I am fascinated.

0:51.5

The older I've got, the more into football I've got, actually.

0:55.2

Oh, I know.

0:55.8

Can I tell you, when I was a kid, when we were kids, we were kids, I would try to get John interested in football.

1:04.2

And John would arrive and I would be there with Shoot magazine, right?

1:07.5

And I would know what my favourite player's favorite dinner was, which was

1:12.6

usually steak and chips or scampian chips. And John, like maybe in the FAA Cup final day,

1:18.5

and John would have arrived down with a book about animal tracks and signs, our astrology,

1:25.1

our nature. And I would just look at them and say and I'd say, man, you don't get it.

1:29.8

And now I don't obsess about sporting you do. I've got totally into it. So before we get into

1:36.3

this, you know, I have now and I have become an obsessive of succession. Yes. Yeah. You know,

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