The perspective of a Premier League owner
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The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Gab Marcotti and Natalie Sawyer host an author special this Thursday on The Game podcast.
Joshua Robinson, co-author of The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports, joins us alongside The Times chief sports reporter Martyn Ziegler, to discuss the global juggernaut that is England’s top tier.
We delve into the knowledge of Joshua and his co-author Jonathan Clegg, who have spoken to executives and owners past and present about their emotional and financial investment. Hear about the last Chelsea team-talk pre-Abramovich and Randy Lerner’s tattoo. Plus branding, Brexit and Brentford.
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| 0:32.8 | the game podcast from The Times. I'm Natalie Sawyer. |
| 0:36.0 | And I'm Gabriel McCarty and we thank you for joining us on this |
| 0:40.3 | Thursday. Now much as I wanted to go in detail about the exciting return leg between |
| 0:46.7 | Burton Albion and Manchester City in the Karabow Cup we're not going to be doing |
| 0:51.4 | that today we're going to be tackling the subject of |
| 0:54.0 | Premier League Wells. And that's partly because we're joined by someone who's |
| 0:59.1 | written a book about it. The book is called The Club, how the English Premier League became the wildest |
| 1:04.9 | richest most disruptive force in sports now I should point out he did not write the |
| 1:09.2 | book by himself he's one of two people who wrote the book. The other one is a very talented |
| 1:13.2 | journalist named Johnson Kleg. This one is the other guy who wrote the book. It's |
| 1:16.7 | Joshua Robinson. Thanks for having me. Equally as talented. |
| 1:20.3 | No? Yes, but there you are. |
| 1:24.0 | What a way to make you feel like effort, collaborative effort. |
| 1:27.0 | Also joining us down the line, a man who's been covering this subject for the times for some time. |
| 1:32.0 | It is the chief sports reporter Martin Ziegler. |
| 1:34.2 | Let's start with you Joshua your day. Job is as the European sports reporter for the |
| 1:39.2 | Wall Street Journal. The book charts the rise of the Premier League as a brand |
| 1:42.4 | and a business from the start of the competition to the present day. |
| 1:46.2 | So how different would you say the Premier League is now from when it started in 1992? |
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