The Sports Agents

A golden week for Team GB at the European Athletics Championship ended with Georgia Hunter Bell taking the 1500m title and the new European champion joins Gabby & Mark to reflect on the race and how Team GB’s success on the track can propel British Athletics to new heights.
Jack Draper’s injury nightmare has seen him slip from world #4 - #134 in the space of 14 months. Mark and Gabby find out all about, the ‘serve guru’ who has been tasked with tweaking the British Tennis star’s action and keeping his body in one piece.
And it’s a big day in football history as on this day one Lionel Messi made his International debut for Argentina, while on this day in 1996 David Beckham scored from the halfway line at Selhurst Park and one of the Sports Agents was there that day - watching not working and, for reasons unknown, wearing plastic snake skin trousers in the searing heat.
It couldn’t possibly be Mark. Could it?…

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Executive Producer: Adonis Pratsides
Senior Producer: David Finch
Video Producer: Samuel Trudgill
Social Media Editor: Jasmine Wissart
Tom Hughes is Editor for The News Agents podcast network
Vicky Etchells is the Commissioning Editor for Global
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The England Men’s test cricket team are in a hole. After a spectacular collapse at home to New Zealand which saw the end of Stokes, McCullum and the ‘Bazball’ era earlier this summer England now face a must win series against Pakistan.
But guess what?
Their new test coach, who has never coached a test team, is in New Zealand and it’s all got Mark Chapman feeling a bit down about his favourite sport. Nedum, Gabby & Mark are joined by Wisden editor Lawrence Booth to discuss an ECB omni shambles and the immediate future, however bleak, of England Men’s test cricket team.
In happier news the EFL kicks off this weekend and the guys bring you all the big stories which should be on your radar as The Championship, League One & League Two curtain raisers.
Elsewhere Stuart Broad’s viral solar eclipse commentary at The Hundred and Gabby’s incredible impression of a Birmingham accent will delight and offend in equal measure.

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Tom Hughes is Editor for The News Agents podcast network
Vicky Etchells is the Commissioning Editor for Global
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Mo Salah’s last dance as a professional footballer will be nothing like Ronaldo’s or Messi’s.
The Egyptian superstar’s surprise move to Turkey’s fourth biggest club, Trabzonspor, is all part of a final act which Salah, and his new club, hope will shift the balance of power in European football.
Gabby, Mark & Nedum break down the cultural and sporting impact of Salah’s move with Guardian football writer Emre Sarigul who claims that god-like status awaits Mo Salah on the banks of the Black Sea.
Elsewhere the European Athletic Championships takes place in Birmingham this week and the guys welcome Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson’s coach Jenny Meadows onto the show to look forward to a star studded 800m final which could well see World records broken and jaws drop to the floor.
As well as all that, Gabby & Mark grill Nedum on his lack of knowledge of the football transfer market - the results are truly shocking!

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Who does football really belong to?
After the highest grossing world cup of all time, and as FIFA & UEFA accuse each other of selling football’s soul, Gabby Mark & Nedum debate who sport belongs to and surprise, surprise it aint the fans.
But are supporters in the stands really just props for a TV product or do they still have a genuine stake in the sports they pay so much to follow?
Elsewhere as the opening weekend of the Championship looms large, the guys tell the tale of Lincoln City with CEO Liam Scully. For the first time in 65 years The Imps will kick a ball in the second tier of English football and it is all thanks to a miracle FA Cup run a decade ago.

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The writing could be on the wall for Gianni Infantino. Just last week the FIFA President looked untouchable but a week is a long time and after sparking global outrage with his latest plan to boost FIFA’s bank accounts - Infantino is left clinging on to power.
Mark Chapman is joined by The New York Times journalist Tariq Panja and special guest Emily Maitlis from The News Agents to talk about the life and times of Gianni Infantino - the pivotal moments from his past which explain everything about the man, from his pursuit of money to his wooing of the rich and powerful.
Infantino’s unusually close relationship with US president is under the microscope and as Gianni’s recent moves have more than a whiff of Donald J Trump about them, the guys ask: Has acting like Trump has cost Gianni Infantino his job?

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Tom Hughes is Editor for The News Agents podcast network
Vicky Etchells is the Commissioning Editor for Global
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