Zlatan v FIFA & Portsmouth CEO on fans return

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Mark Chapman and The Athletic's Matt Slater discuss footballers' image rights after as top players including Gareth Bale & Zlatan Ibrahimović are planning to object to use of their likenesses on the hugely popular and lucrative EA Sports game, FIFA 21. We are a joined by Tom Horton a barrister who runs the twitter account TheFootballLaw and has written an excellent thread on the issue of footballers and their image rights in reaction to this story. And as English football prepares to welcome fans back into stadiums, we are joined by Mark Catlin, CEO of Portsmouth in League One, who tells us how his club are preparing and how they will choose which fans attend matches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello I'm Mark Chapman. Welcome to the Business of Sport Pod on the athletic each week.
0:13.0	We're taking behind the curtain
0:14.7	into the world of football business
0:16.3	and other sports across the globe.
0:18.8	As ever with us today, the athletics football
0:21.1	news reporter Matt Slater, and we're going to talk
0:24.3	about football players and their image rights mainly on this pod including
0:29.4	Gareth Bale and Zlatan Ibrahimovich because because several of them, those two included, are planning to object to use of their likenesses on FIFA 21 and to help us explore the whole issue of image rights, we have Tom Horton, a barrister at Three Hair Court, who also finds time to run the Twitter account, the football law.
0:50.0	And if you go to that, there's a brilliant thread on the issue of footballers and their image
0:54.4	right in reaction to this story.
0:58.4	First of all, Matt, before we bring in Tom's expertise, what's going on with Bale and Ibrahimovich in particular.
1:04.5	Mm. Well, anyone under the age of 40 will not need me to explain what FIFA is.
1:10.0	It's not the...
1:11.0	Well, hang on a minute, hang on a minute, hang on, I'm over 40 and I... It's not the war in collection of blazers.
1:13.0	Hang on, I'm over 40 and I, do you get it?
1:16.0	I get it. I get it every now and then.
1:18.0	Okay. I play against my 17 year old and then I have the strong...
1:21.0	Can you actually play it though?
1:23.1	No, no, no.
1:25.1	I just use right too and hope I have lots of fast players.
1:28.9	That's all I do.
1:29.9	Me.
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