Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
The News Agents
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🗓️ 14 February 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Sports Agents...
Can the Six Nations learn from the star-studded Super Bowl? We chat to ex-England rugby union player Ugo Monye (03:30).
Could rugby league help the Premier League get VAR right? That's with Phil Bentham, Head of Match Officials at the RFL and former PGMOL VAR coach (10:45).
Joe McEwan tells us about suffering a sudden cardiac arrest when playing lacrosse. At just 22 his heart stopped for 4 minutes but he survived and now he's raising money by walking the length of New Zealand (16:45).
And we laugh about Andy Murray's fateful first ski trip, where he had to be transported down the mountain after biting off more than he could chew (22:45).
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | We went skiing with the Hansons. |
| 0:09.0 | I was going down, I was like, what's that? |
| 0:11.0 | Alan said, it's me, Kelly, and I'm out of control. |
| 0:14.0 | You've got your God Save the Kings, and you've got your sweet Caroline. |
| 0:19.0 | And we have to be able to service both. |
| 0:22.7 | Someone took a shot on the ball, hit me in the back of the neck, |
| 0:24.9 | and that triggered a cardiac rest. |
| 0:28.5 | Nielsen running into the box, and it was the worst example of acting, |
| 0:32.6 | I think I've seen since a recent episode of Silent Witness. |
| 0:36.6 | This is great. |
| 0:41.8 | Hi Kelly. |
| 0:43.2 | Hello, Gabby. How are you? |
| 0:45.0 | Very well indeed. |
| 0:46.3 | We are here for another weekend edition of the sports agents |
| 0:49.1 | where you can catch up with all our favourite bits from this week's podcasts. |
| 0:53.3 | Kelly, of course, in for Mark this week. |
| 0:55.7 | And we had Hugo Monier on, didn't we? Yes. The first episode of the week. Mystic Hugo, |
| 1:00.3 | as we're calling him now. |
| 1:02.1 | He kind of added his criticism of Warren Gatlin to the kind of weight of criticism that's been |
| 1:07.2 | behind him and made a prediction that came true. |
| 1:16.5 | Yeah. I mean, to be fair, 14 defeats in succession for Wales did not leave Warren Gatland and his coaching staff in a very good place. But I think the big surprise, really, for everybody |
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