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The Price of Football

Wigan Athletic fans' crowdfunding efforts, stadium music royalties, club headcounts

The Price of Football

Guy Kilty

Business, Sports

4.92.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Kevin and Kieran talk to the chair of Wigan Athletic Supporters Club, Caroline Molyneux, about their attempt to crowdfund £250,000 to support the club while the administrators look for a buyer. They also look at why Manchester United employ significantly more people than Manchester City, and whether clubs pay royalties for the music they play on matchdays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:41.0

Hello and welcome to the price of football, the show that looks at the money behind the beautiful game. I'm Kevin Day and over there in rural Sussex just emerging from his due day after the Mauling last night by Manchester City.

2:00.0

Is football finance expert Kiran McGuire? Good morning Kiran, how are you?

2:04.0

I'm as good as can be expected, Kevin and you can read into that whatever you wish. We were pants and the city were very good.

2:11.0

Yeah, I was slightly annoyed that City declared towards the end. That would have been fun.

2:16.0

Although I have to be at Rahim Sterling's, Ed and I laughed for five minutes at Rahim Sterling's lovely head he'd go off to ground him.

2:23.0

He managed to not make your keeper by heading it through his legs, which doesn't happen very often in football.

2:30.0

Now, Kiran, it's Monday, we'll be when you listen to this pod. So that's questions day, but first I did say that we weren't going to let the Wig and Story go away.

2:39.0

So just a while ago we spoke to Caroline Molony who's chair of the Wig and Athletic Support Association about the crowdfunding campaign to keep the season going and this is what she had to say.

2:51.0

Caroline, good morning. Thank you for joining us. Good morning. How are you? Yes, not so bad. Thank you. Good point yesterday, really, under the circumstances.

3:05.0

Yeah, anything under the circumstances that has the word good in it is to be welcome.

3:10.0

Caroline, when we first mentioned this story a couple of weeks ago, Kiran raised it.

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