Q&A: Rules football should steal from other sports? - The Sports Agents
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Can other sports teach football a thing or two? On today's show Gabby and Mark take your suggestions on how to fix football, using your passion for a massive range of sports.
Plus, we look back at The Sports Agents this week: a huge interview with McLaren CEO Zak Brown as Lando Norris could win them the world title this weekend; and we talk about the elephant in the room at struggling Liverpool - grief.
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| 0:00.0 | 5am. |
| 0:03.6 | You wake up with a jolt, |
| 0:05.5 | after a nightmare that your business was hit by a fraud attack in the night. |
| 0:09.4 | This is the moment you choose to relax, |
| 0:11.8 | knowing that Barclay card payments is helping to prevent fraud 24-7. |
| 0:16.3 | So you can go back to counting sheep, not pounds. |
| 0:21.4 | That's how we're protecting your business. |
| 0:24.2 | Barclay card payments. |
| 0:26.1 | Terms and conditions apply. |
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| 0:32.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:36.2 | Football. People love to have a little grumble, don't they? |
| 0:39.5 | Whether it's VAR, play acting, there's always something. |
| 0:42.4 | So what if football could take rules from other sports, like Simbin, or maybe |
| 0:47.6 | netball super shot or timeouts in basketball? |
| 0:51.1 | Well, today we're taking your suggestions on how to fix football. |
| 0:54.9 | Welcome to the sports agents. |
| 1:04.6 | The Sports Agents with Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman. |
| 1:10.1 | Hello, Mark.man. Hello Mark. |
| 1:11.4 | Hello, Gabby. |
| 1:12.5 | We're going to talk about how we fix football, well, or rather the suggestions we've had about fixing football. |
| 1:18.2 | If you think it needs fixing, thank you for sending in your suggestions with rules and ideas from other sports. |
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