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The News Agents

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

The News Agents

Global

News, Daily News, Government, Politics

4.15.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Sports Agents...

From watching his uncle commit one of the biggest robberies in British history, to a police chase and a double life sentence. John McAvoy tells us his story of turning his life around to break world records and become a sponsored Ironman triathlete. (03:30)

Former Liverpool winger Jordon Ibe was set to be England's next big thing but after a broken promise from Jurgen Klopp and being robbed at gunpoint, his mental health spiralled. Now he's in the 7th tier trying to rekindle his love of football, raising questions about what success really looks like in football. (10:30)

Angel Cabrera is competing at The Masters after 30 months in jail for assault, theft and illegal intimidation against former girlfriends. Former Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley, takes us behind the curtain and discusses whether a convicted criminal should have lost his green jacket? (19:00)

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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 RRIZE.

0:25.8

Do the four trip checks before every journey, National Highways.

0:32.3

This is a Global Player Original podcast.

0:36.3

I just saw the tsunami of police officers running towards me with machine guns and handguns

0:40.9

screaming at me to get down and I just remember I froze and I was tensing because I was

0:46.7

anticipating someone shooting me.

0:50.6

And then obviously the clock came in and we had a conversation and it was good at first but I don't really think he honoured it.

1:03.3

Hello Kelly. Hello Gabby.

1:05.4

Welcome to another weekend edition of the sports agents where you can catch up on our favourite bits from this week's podcast. So of course Kelly, you've come into the latter half of the week in the earlier part of the sports agents where you can catch up on our favourite bits from this week's podcasts.

1:11.5

So of course, Kelly, you've come into the latter half of the week. In the earlier part of the week, when Chappas was still here and hadn't gone off to Augusta, we had a chat with John McAvoy. I don't know if you'd heard of John before, but he was a convicted armed robber who in prison started rowing, became a world record breaker with his incredible feats on the rowing machine,

1:30.4

and then came out of prison and found sport to be his refuge, to be the thing that really led him to live a better life.

1:38.1

And he's just incredible, you know, how he is now kind of taking that message to other kids,

1:43.7

trying to stop them getting into the life that he was. He grew up in proper kind of ganglang territory. You know, the male role models in his family were people who were armed robbers. And it was a really interesting chat. And yet again, kind of reiterating the power of sport, which is something we come back to time and time again, I think. And came back to, again, with Paul McGinley, when we talked to him about the masters at Augusta,

2:05.2

with Ancal Cabrera taking part who is a convicted criminal and where we draw the line in terms

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