Explaining BeNeLiga & High Stakes for Horse Racing
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Host Mark Chapman and The Athletic's football news reporter Matt Slater look into reports that clubs in Belgium have voted in favour of merging with the Dutch Eredivisie. We speak to Alex Muzio chairman of Belgian sleeping giant Royale Union Saint-Gilloise who last week sealed a return to the top flight.
And this week sees the return of The Cheltenham Festival, the highlight of the British jump racing calendar, behind closed and under pressure to deliver for an industry hit by lost revenues due and negative publicity - former Jockey Club CEO Simon Bazalgette joins us.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello, I'm Mark Chapman, welcome to the Business of Sport podcast on The Athletic, |
| 0:18.6 | alongside us as ever from The Athletic Football News reporter Matt Slater. |
| 0:23.8 | Coming up, we will look into reports that clubs in Belgium have voted in favour of merging with the Dutch Eredde Vise. |
| 0:31.2 | We speak to Alex Musio, chairman of Belgian sleeping giant Royal Union Saint-Gilwas, who last week sealed a return to the top flight. |
| 0:40.5 | And this week sees the return of the Cheltenham Festival, the highlight of the British |
| 0:44.0 | Jump Racing Calendar. It is behind closed doors and under pressure to deliver for an industry |
| 0:50.0 | hit by lost revenues and negative publicity. The former Jockey Club CEO, Simon Basilgett, joins us. |
| 0:57.5 | This is The Business of Sport from the Athletic. |
| 1:01.5 | Reports emerged this week that Belgium's leading football clubs |
| 1:04.5 | have voted in favour of a possible cross-border league |
| 1:07.2 | with the top teams from the Netherlands. |
| 1:09.9 | It was claimed that the Belgian Pro League unanimously voted in favour of an agreement |
| 1:14.8 | in principle for what is being called the Beneliga. |
| 1:19.0 | Alex Muzio is chairman of Belgian second tier side Royal Union Saint-Gilwas, |
| 1:24.0 | a club with a rich history who last week were promoted to the top flight for the |
| 1:28.9 | first time in almost half a century. A couple of things to start with, Alex, I suppose the first one, |
| 1:34.6 | how do I refer to the team in a shortened form? Union, do I... Union. Union is good. |
| 1:42.8 | Union or Union is good. Union or Union is good. |
| 1:44.7 | So how did you get involved with Union? |
| 1:47.1 | What's your background? |
| 1:48.5 | I'm good friends with Tony Bloom. |
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