Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Sports Agents...
First up, an exclusive interview with the most important man in English rugby union, Bill Sweeney, CEO of the RFU. He faces a vote of no confidence next week after accepting a £350,000 bonus, taking his pay to £1.1m, when clubs are going bust, redundancies have been made and the community game is crying out for help (02:30).
Newcastle legend Alan Shearer celebrated with Gabby (and Sam Fender) as they won their first domestic trophy in 70 years (13:30).
And we talked about Lewis Hamilton's back seat driver and a big win for Lando Norris at Formula One's opening weekend with one of the world's most decorated female racing drivers and Sky Sports F1 Analyst, Jamie Chadwick (20:30).
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| 0:00.0 | A safe trip begins with TRIP. |
| 0:03.0 | Take a road trip with your family, get there safely. |
| 0:06.0 | Do your trip checks. |
| 0:08.0 | T, drop up on island fuel, R, rest every two hours to |
| 0:13.0 | I inspect your pressure and tread. |
| 0:16.0 | P, preparing for the weather ahead. |
| 0:18.0 | A safe trip begins with TRIP. Oh, yes, that's, oh, yes, a safe trip begins with TRIP. |
| 0:21.9 | Oh, yes. |
| 0:23.8 | A safe trip begins with T RR.R.E. |
| 0:25.9 | Do the four trip checks before every journey, National Highways. |
| 0:32.5 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:36.1 | Bloody hell. |
| 0:37.5 | How do you get anything done? |
| 0:39.1 | We've got to be quicker. |
| 0:40.4 | I mean, one of the frustrations of working rugby, |
| 0:42.4 | it's sometimes it feels glacial. |
| 0:44.9 | Newcastle fans said to me last night, |
| 0:46.4 | they might need to put up 15 statues outside St. |
| 0:49.1 | Yeah, absolutely, yeah. |
| 0:50.5 | If they need to make room, |
| 0:52.9 | can they take yours down? |
| 0:55.2 | Well, they can put those at the leisure then. |
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