Hello I'm Mark Chapman. Welcome to the Business of Sport Podcast on the Athletic.

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football news reporter at the Athletic and each week will take you behind the

curtain into the world of football business and other sports across the globe.

Coming up on this pod we'll talk to Paul Barber,

CEO of the Premier League side Brighton and home Albion,

and we'll also look back on England's failed attempt

to host the 2018 World Cup and a chain of events that eventually led to the

collapse of Set Blatter's FIFA empire. To read all the articles we discuss on

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Well let's talk to our first guest on this week's pod. Paul Barber who is CEO and

Deputy Chairman of Brighton and Hope Albion in the Premier League.

It feels poor we can either start with Brexit or we can start with COVID,

which kind of sums up the world we're living in at the moment.

I think we'll start with Brexit but before I get an

answer to review on it Matt can just explain what has been announced this week as

regards overseas players joining English clubs. Matt. Great, thanks very much.

Yeah, Brexit.

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