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Hello, I'm Mark Chapman.

Welcome to the Business of Sport Pod on The Athletic.

Each week we'll take you behind the curtain into the world of football business and other sports across the globe.

Alongside me from The Athletic is football news reporter Matt Slater. And coming up today, we'll talk to Jonathan Walters, the former Premier League player who has now applied to become the new CEO of the Professional Footballers Union in England. We'll also speak to Andreas Kranich from Sport Radar, a company that works with sporting federations and leagues to fight the rise in

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Well, we're going to start the pod today by talking about sports battle against match fixing,

which would appear to be on the rise. No surprise, really. More sports coverage,

more money, more ways to put a bet on. And also the vulnerability really of the targets involved,

Matt, who are off lower level athletes who are on lower incomes. Well, absolutely. I think you've just

framed it perfectly there that just the explosion of interest really in sport,

the technological changes that we've talked about in the past, that there's just so much

available now.

There are so many things you can bet on, so many games, so many different sports, people are streaming stuff.

And there's just this insatiable appetite.

I mean, we're going to talk to Andreas from Sport Radio,

who are one of the absolute experts

and have been helping sports governing bodies

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