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 to 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

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So the focus of today's podcast is the event

that led to Greg Clark's resignation

as FA 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 a business of

a business of sports I hope story this was supposed to be a business of sports

I hope 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 Culture

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