The Sports Agents: Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
This week, The Sports Agents took a closer look at the state of Rugby Union, reflected on Nottingham Forest becoming the latest Premier League club to suffer a points deduction, as well as, the infamous story of one, Ali Dia...
On Tuesday, Andy Burnham - Greater Manchester Mayor and furious Everton fan - certainly didn't hold back when discussing why the Premier League needs an independent regulator.
Top comedians Dara O'Briain and Josh Widdicombe were then on hand to talk about their six-part podcast series exploring the phenomenon of Ali Dia’s overnight rise to the Premier League – for 53 minutes.
Then on Thursday, it was Rugby Union under the microscope as Courtney Lawes, Louis Rees-Zammit, Premiership CEO Simon Massie-Taylor and Wales legend Sam Warburton joined Gabby & Mark to debate the biggest threats to Rugby's future.
New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon.
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| 0:25.8 | Do the four trip checks before every journey. |
| 0:28.4 | National Highways. |
| 0:32.3 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:35.6 | Hi, Gabby. |
| 0:36.2 | Hi, Mark. |
| 0:36.9 | So we've had another really busy week, |
| 0:38.5 | excited week. Loads of really interesting guests. Loads of really interesting subject. So we've |
| 0:43.6 | decided to keep up the weekend edition of the sports agents. Yeah, just a handful of our favourite |
| 0:49.0 | bits from this week's episodes. We did a health check on the state of rugby union featuring |
| 0:53.5 | some really great names from |
| 0:55.1 | the sport. And we had Sam Warburton, Courtney Laws, Lewis Reesammer and the Premiership Chief |
| 1:00.0 | Executive Simon Massey Taylor came in. But we're going to start these best bits with Tuesday's |
| 1:04.7 | episodes and the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, who is also a huge Everton fan. |
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