Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Sports Agents...
Mark and Gabby hit the road this week, meeting Formula One drivers at the O2 Arena and travelling to Wigan to chat to the best and possibly most underrated coach in Britain.
First up, an exclusive interview with three-time Grand Prix winner George Russell about taking over from Lewis Hamilton as Mercedes lead driver, swearing rules and the moment you know if your car will be good enough to win a world championship (it's sooner than you think!). (02:45)
Mark also caught up with young British rookie Oliver Bearman, who was three when Hamilton won first world championship. He made a dramatic debut last season: drafted in with two hours notice he finished 7th ahead of Hamilton and Lando Norris, becoming the youngest British F1 driver in the process. So in his first full season can he replicate that success? He didn't in his driving test... (10:45)
And we meet Wigan Warriors Head Coach, Matt Peet, whose recent trophy cabinet is rivalled only by the likes of Pep Guardiola with seven in three years. So how did the life-long Wigan fan, who never played professional rugby league, guide his side to a historic quadruple and the Team of the Year award at Sports Personality of the Year? Might have something to do with the philosophy he reads... (15:30)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up? O'Gilligan here. In my podcast, beginning middle and end, I sit down with big names and find out how they got started where they are now and the legacy they want to create. |
| 0:10.5 | And this week's episode is sponsored by British Airways and Tobago. |
| 0:14.7 | Now, I've got family in the Caribbean and I hear Tobago is even more untouched with relaxed, soulful vibes. |
| 0:21.8 | And guess what? British Airways fly there. |
| 0:24.2 | Find me, Mo Gilligan, beginning, middle and end on Global Player. |
| 0:31.2 | This is a Global Player original podcast. |
| 0:35.3 | You know as soon as you go through Turn 1, if the car is is good and if this is going to be a good season or it's going to be a long season. |
| 0:43.4 | When people sell, look a bit miserable when we win. |
| 0:46.7 | I'm always very conscious of the opposition team and coach. |
| 0:50.1 | For every time as a winner, there's a loser and I just wouldn't want to be carrying on. |
| 0:54.6 | Did you fail your driving test first time? |
| 0:57.2 | Unfortunately, yeah. |
| 1:02.2 | Hello, Mark. |
| 1:03.0 | Hi, Gabby. |
| 1:03.8 | Welcome to another weekend edition of the sports agents where you can catch up on our |
| 1:07.9 | favourite bits from this week's podcasts. |
| 1:09.8 | We've been out and about. |
| 1:31.0 | Well, you've been out and about not working for the sports agents half the week. I've done a full week of being out and about. You've been everywhere, haven't you, for Champions League, and Munich and Manchester and so on and so forth. Which sounds glamorous, but I think I missed the most glamorous event of the sporting world this week. Well, I think that's why they chose to send me to that, really, out of the two of us. |
| 1:37.7 | So on this edition, you will hear me surrounded by the glitz and the glamour of F1. |
| 1:41.3 | I did feel a little bit of fish out of water, if I'm honest with you. |
| 1:44.8 | And there are an awful lot of young people there as well. |
| 1:48.9 | But anyhow, George Russell and Oliver Berman, two British Grand Prix drivers, |
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