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The Price of Football

Nick De Marco QC interview, hedging and FFP

The Price of Football

Guy Kilty

Sports, Business

4.92.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Kevin and Kieran speak to Nick De Marco QC, the sports law specialist who played a pivotal role in the salary cap in League One and League Two being scrapped. They also look into whether clubs can use hedging to get around FFP regulations, and why clubs change their logo from a financial point of view. Follow The Price of Football on Twitter - @POF_POD Follow Kevin on Twitter - @kevinhunterday Follow Kieran on Twitter - @KieranMaguire Check out the Price of Football merchandise store here! https://the-price-of-football.backstreetmerch.com/ Support for this episode of the Price of Football comes from Manscaped, the best in men’s below-the-waist grooming. Manscaped has just launched in the UK and they offer precision-engineered tools for your family jewels. Get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code PRICEOFFOOTBALL at Manscaped.com. Your balls will thank you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to the Price of Football, the newly award nominated show, the looks at the

0:39.6

money behind the beautiful game with me Kevin Day and Liverpool University's Kiran Maguire

0:44.0

Kiran. Obviously it's lovely that we've been nominated for the Football Supporters Association

0:48.9

Family, the award but it's a public vote and we're up against the lights of the Anfield

0:53.8

rap so that's going to take a lot of seasonal adjusting if we're going to win isn't it?

0:57.6

Yeah I'm looking forward to coming in six in the five horse race actually.

1:03.6

Well as you know several years ago I was a BAFTA nominated for a writing thing and I lost

1:09.0

to somebody who'd been dead for four decades so I can't let that disappointment happen again.

1:15.8

So we will between now and the end of February be throwing in the occasional, we're too

1:20.7

cool to beg for votes Kiran but we'll do the ironic mention that you know if you want to vote for

1:24.8

us feel free vote for us and the Football Supporters Association Awards which you'll find the

1:30.6

address later on. Now Kiran we've got a special episode today because it's it's questions

1:35.4

David. Later in the episode we will hear from Nick Demarco QC the superstar lawyer who played a

1:41.7

major role in the recent decision to scrap the salary cap and lead one on lead two. He's known

1:47.3

as you know Kiran as the Lionel Messi of Sports Law which I think makes us the David Louise

1:52.6

of podcasting. We look good but we have the occasional rush of blood to the head. Now I was

1:59.1

I was about to have a go at him for calling himself the Lionel Messi of Sports Laws but apparently

2:03.0

it's not that's not the moniker he gave himself Kiran is it? No I believe some some football

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