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Hello, I'm Mark Chapman.

Welcome to the Business and Sport podcast on The Athletic.

With us, as ever, Matt Slater, football news reporter at The Athletic.

And today we're going to be talking about the city football group.

The Athletic have this week published an in-depth piece looking at the entire City Football Group. So that's the group that controls Manchester City, New York City

FC, Melbourne City FC, amongst others. It's so in-depth that it's actually in two parts.

So we're going to explore some of the themes of that on today's pod with Professor Simon Chadwick

and the Barnsley co-chairman Paul Conway.

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