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Gab and Juls: Is a football regulator a problem for the Premier League?

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Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens discuss plans to introduce an independent regulator to English football and ask whether this will be a good thing for English football. The guys also discuss Kylian Mbappe's Olympic hopes, Thibaut Courtois' latest injury setback and pay their respects to Joe Barone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm GAB, he's Jules, Blue Sky's over West London. Wow, what a show, what an exciting.

0:11.6

No, I'm kidding. Okay, Okay guys I like to be honest with our audience the reality is

0:17.4

The first Thursday unless a manager gets sacked of International Week is always going to be a little bit dull newswise for obvious

0:27.1

reasons.

0:28.1

But we're going to talk about something that is news related and which I think is actually

0:31.8

important. Don't worry we got lots of good quick hits coming up.

0:35.0

Yeah.

0:36.0

Like, if you don't want to be educated by Jules and me,

0:38.0

then you can just, I don't know, fast forward ahead.

0:41.0

But look, it's been talked about... I don't know fast forward ahead but look

0:48.5

It's been talked about for a long time the issue of independent regulators Yeah, the government in football has introduced a bill. The content independent

0:55.4

regulator which we'll get we'll have a philosophic discussion about it later if

0:58.6

anybody's slow awake about whether this is something that's necessary. But the idea is there are certain things,

1:04.8

like for example, your electricity supply, right?

1:07.5

You can have private companies supplying you electricity,

1:10.7

but you still have to have a government entity

1:12.4

making sure that the needs of the consumer

1:14.5

I think this is the way to do it. The needs of respected. Yeah I respected right and

1:19.8

this is the thinking behind introducing this independent regulator law.

1:25.0

The idea that could there be some independent entity which just listen to the consumers and make sure that the sport of football is run in line with the interests of the

1:37.3

consumer.

1:38.3

It's kind of a lefty idea, let's face it, right?

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