Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
The News Agents
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🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Sports Agents...
With the NBA Finals starting, Gabby and Mark chat about Michael Jordan returning to our screens and why the NBA hasn't taken off in the UK with host of The Athletic’s NBA Daily podcast, Dave DuFour. (03:30)
Comedian Lee Mack joined us for a laugh ahead of Soccer Aid, spilling the secrets from playing with some of the world's most famous footballers. (09:30)
Former Chelsea and Nigeria player John Obi Mikel came into the studio to chat about the upcoming Club World Cup and whether players really stop playing football when they're on holiday. (14:45)
Is PSG winning Champions League masking the terrible financial state of Ligue 1? We speak to Tariq Panja, Global Sports Correspondent for the New York Times. (18:15)
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| 0:00.0 | Right, that's it. Come on. Lights out. You've got a test tomorrow. Just two minutes. I'm about to reach the next level. It's going off now. Yeah, whatever. Let's see. Where's the app? Oh, here it is. What? How? Oh, no. You're out. Better look next time. Mom! It's game over for late nights on school nights. EE Wi-Fi controls help you get them off the Wi-Fi and into bed. |
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| 0:32.3 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:37.3 | As a player, as a former player, we don't take two weeks off. You play with the local guys and they're very happy to see you. And they're not happy to try and go in and, you know, do you want? Of course they do. Of course they do. You have to be careful. I remember Agnes Dieton, who did Socceret, told me once that he said to somebody a proper famous pro, |
| 0:55.9 | go back a bit and I'll mark Maradonna. |
| 0:58.3 | I thought that's the phrase you want to use, isn't it? |
| 1:00.4 | The other thing that Sticks and Kenny's memory was Figo telling him to stop trying any passes of more than a metre. |
| 1:09.2 | Hi, I nearly said hi Mark. |
| 1:11.2 | I know you did. |
| 1:13.3 | It's been a long week, hasn't it, really? |
| 1:16.9 | Hi, Gabby. |
| 1:19.3 | You go first. |
| 1:21.4 | Hi Mark. |
| 1:22.5 | Hi, Gabby. |
| 1:23.5 | It's time for the weekend edition of the sports agents. |
| 1:25.8 | And this is where you can catch up on our favourite bits from this week's podcast. |
| 1:29.9 | And as always, we have a sporting popery for you, a pick and mix of comedy, American sport, club world cup. |
| 1:39.1 | We had a little bit of a debrief on what's going on in French football. |
| 1:42.4 | We did. |
| 1:42.9 | And when we say comedy, actually actual genuine comedy, not just us trying to be funny. |
| 1:47.6 | But Lee Mack joined us to talk everything about soccer aid, celebrity football, his love |
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