Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:23.7 | A safe trip begins with T RR.R. |
| 0:25.9 | Do the four trip checks before every journey, National Highways. |
| 0:32.5 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:37.4 | Who's going to match of the day? Can you talk about that? Seriously, Ben, answer the bloody question and then we can say bye. All right. So Jim Rackcliffe, is he around at that point when the boat's about to sing? No, thank God he wasn't. You need to listen to the athletes and talk to the actual community as well 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. |
| 1:03.3 | Hi, Mark. |
| 1:04.3 | Hi, Gabby. |
| 1:05.1 | 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? Is that what we should? Maybe that's what we should |
| 1:15.2 | call it, rather than the weekend edition. Not Spotify wrapped, which everybody's talking about |
| 1:18.4 | this week, although we did talk about that on the podcast this week. Yeah, we had a delightful |
| 1:23.1 | chat with Ben and Georgie Ainsley, Sir Ben, Lady Georgie, about the America's Cup, working |
| 1:29.4 | with Sir Jim Ratcliffe as well. And actually, we got into the nuances of being the wife or |
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