Hello, I'm Mark Chapman. Welcome to the Business of Sport podcast on The Athletic. Each week we are going to take you behind the curtain into the world of football business and other sports across the globe.

Alongside me today from The Athletic, is Football News reporter Matt Slater

and senior editor Laura Williamson, who this morning published a piece explaining the extraordinary

chain of events that saw one of the most powerful men in British sport talking himself out of

several jobs on one extraordinary day.

If you're not already a subscriber,

I urge you to head to www.theathletic.com slash Ornstein and Chapman,

where you can sign up for just one pound a week to read Matt's piece in full.

So the focus of today's podcast is the event that led to Greg Clark's resignation as

FHA Chairman yesterday with Matt and Laura.

But first of all, Matt, what was the actual point of yesterday, before we even get to

Clark's comments?

What was trying to be achieved by this meeting, the set of interviews?

Right. Well, good question, because it was meant to be a business of sports type story.

This was supposed to be a hearing about the ongoing dispute, really, between the Premier League and the

rest of football as to whose

responsibility it is to rescue football from the existential financial crisis it's been plunged

into by the pandemic. So as we should explain some terms, the DCMS committee, it's the digital

cultural media and sport select committee. It's one of dozens of panels of backbench MPs whose job it is to scrutinise

government ministers, departments, agencies, hold into account, check that they're spending the money

properly. And that does involve doing, you know, investigations into into relevant areas.

And DCMS over the last few years has been very good,

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