Weekend Edition: Rainbow armbands & Sailing for Ratcliffe - The Sports Agents
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🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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This week on The Sports Agents,
Gabby & Mark tackled the controversy surrounding the Premier League’s annual LGBTQ+ 'Rainbow Laces' campaign - after some players chose to directly challenge the Premier League’s directives. Wales all-time top goalscorer, Jess Fishlock (10:34) - MBE awarded for her services to football and the LGBTQ+ community and double-Paralympic 200m Champion Richard Whitehead joined us for a discussion about how 'inclusion' in wider sport (17:13).
The 4x Olympic Champion, Sir Ben Ainslie, joined us in the studio for an insight into working with Manchester United's new co-owner Jim Ratcliffe (02:39).
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| 0:38.7 | Can you talk about that? |
| 0:39.5 | Seriously, Ben, answer the bloody question |
| 0:41.2 | and then we can say bye. |
| 0:42.3 | All right. |
| 0:43.7 | So Jim Rackcliffe, is he around at that point |
| 0:45.6 | when the boat's about to sink? |
| 0:46.7 | No, thank God he wasn't. |
| 0:48.2 | You need to listen to the athletes |
| 0:49.6 | and talk to the actual community as well |
| 0:51.6 | and not just put a tokenistic event on. I think it's really sad that a club like Manchester United are choosing to say that we're |
| 0:59.5 | really not that inclusive actually. |
| 1:03.2 | Hi Mark. |
| 1:04.3 | Hi Gabby. |
| 1:05.0 | Welcome to another weekend edition of the sports agents where you can catch up on our |
| 1:08.8 | favourite bits from this week's podcast. |
| 1:11.0 | Is this like the sports agents wrapped? |
| 1:13.3 | Is that what we should? |
| 1:14.2 | Maybe that's what we should call it rather than the weekend edition. |
| 1:16.9 | Not Spotify wrapped, which everybody's talking about this week, although we did talk about that |
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