Sport Unlocked

Episode 23 of Sport Unlocked, the podcast dissecting the week's sports news issues with interviews and insight from Rob Harris, Martyn Ziegler and Tariq Panja. On the agenda on June 18, 2021: Christian Eriksen's cardiac arrest at Euro 2020. We interview Dr. Zafar Iqbal, head of sports medicine at Crystal Palace, who is chairman of the Premier League doctors' group, on Eriksen's collapse, his recov...

Episode 22 of Sport Unlocked, the podcast dissecting the week's sports news issues with interviews and insight from Rob Harris, Martyn Ziegler and Tariq Panja. On the agenda on June 12, 2021: A look at the start to the European Championship, includes Rob's experiences in the England camp with seeing players face-to-face a rarity in the pandemic Footballers continued to be booed taking a knee. We'l...

Episode 21 of Sport Unlocked, the podcast analysing the week's sports news issues with Rob Harris, Martyn Ziegler and Tariq Panja. On the agenda on June 4, 2021: Footballers booed taking a knee. There are pleas for the anti-racism gesture to be respected with the Euros about to start. There's late hosting turmoil for Copa America. In cricket, an England test debutant apologises as old racist and s...

Episode 20 of Sport Unlocked, the podcast analysing the sports news issues with Rob Harris and Tariq Panja at the Champions League Final in Portugal and Martyn Ziegler in England. On the agenda on May 28, 2021: The future of the Champions League with a Final 4 in one city being considered. Nike cutting ties with Neymar over sexual assault allegation Sports events taken out of Belarus over the acti...

Episode 19 of Sport Unlocked, the podcast analysing the sports news issues with Rob Harris, Martyn Ziegler and Tariq Panja. On the agenda on May 21, 2021, we go in depth on Gianni Infantino and his presidency of FIFA: Why is he now eyeing World Cups every two years? Why did he evade questions on his links to the Super League for so long to us? He now denies colluding with the breakaway while ackno...

Episode 18 of Sport Unlocked, the podcast analysing the sports news issues with Rob Harris, Martyn Ziegler and Tariq Panja. On the agenda on May 14, 2021: Bumper La Liga TV rights deal in the United States - what does it mean for the Premier League's sale? Was the PL right to extend its current British contracts on the same terms? Anti-Olympics protester gate-crashes the IOC press conference as op...

Episode 17 of Sport Unlocked, the podcast analysing the sports news issues with Rob Harris, Martyn Ziegler and Tariq Panja. On the agenda on May 7, 2021: Super League fallout: UEFA begins handing out punishments, with 9 of the rebel clubs accepting fines. But could Barcelona, Real Madrid & Juventus now be banned from the Champions League for not agreeing to UEFA's settlement? Violence at Old T...

Episode 16 of Sport Unlocked, the podcast analysing the sports news issues with Rob Harris, Martyn Ziegler and Tariq Panja. On the agenda on April 30, 2021: Football's social media boycott: We take you inside the meetings with social media companies with PFA head of equalities Simone Pound who tells us this could be the first boycott of many if action isn't taken to stop racism. Super League fallo...

Episode 15 of Sport Unlocked, the podcast analysing the sports news issues with Rob Harris, Martyn Ziegler and Tariq Panja.  There's only one main talking point on the agenda on April 23, 2021 - the collapse of the Super League. The sports news insiders have the inside track on the implosion of the breakaway, what happens next for European football and the futures of the rebels who tried to s...

Episode 14 of Sport Unlocked, the podcast analysing the sports news issues with Rob Harris, Martyn Ziegler and Tariq Panja. On the agenda on April 19, 2021 for a midweek special on the Super League: Why are the 12 rebel clubs splitting from UEFA? What's the prospect of the Super League launching? Why haven't German and French clubs signed up? Would players from the Super League clubs actually be b...

Episode 13 of the podcast digesting and analysing the week in sports news with Rob Harris, Martyn Ziegler and Tariq Panja. On the agenda on April 16, 2021: Steve Cockburn from Amnesty, a Newcastle fan, joins the pod to talk through the human rights issues in Saudi Arabia, why they aren't calling for boycotts of the Beijing Olympics or Qatar World Cup - and how players should handle scrutiny about...

Episode 12 of the podcast digesting and analysing the week in sports news with Rob Harris and Martyn Ziegler. On the agenda on April 9, 2021: How sport responded to the death of Prince Philip with tributes and lengthened silences at British sport. Interview with Sir Craig Reedie, member of the International Olympic Committee and former boss of the World Anti-Doping Agency & British Olympic Ass...

Episode 11 of the podcast digesting and analysing the week in sports news with Rob Harris and Martyn Ziegler joined by Tariq Panja. On the agenda on April 2, 2021: Champions League disarray: A grab for power and money by elite clubs has delays the new format being approved. In the money are agents despite the pandemic with them receiving £272 million from Premier League clubs over the last year. S...

Episode 10 of the podcast digesting and analysing the week in sports news with Rob Harris and Martyn Ziegler joined by Tariq Panja. On the agenda on March 27, 2021: - Formula One's director of commercial partnerships joins us from the season-opening Bahrain GP to discuss competitiveness, ethics, environmentalism and diversity in the sport. - Human rights protests at World Cup qualifiers in Europe....

Episode nine of the podcast digesting and analysing the week in sports news with Rob Harris and Martyn Ziegler joined by Tariq Panja. On the agenda on March 19, 2021: An interview with survivors' solicitor Dino Nocivelli on the fallout from English football's sex abuse inquiry report. We also speak to Minky Worden of Human Rights Watch on sex abuse in global football and FIFA's shortcomings plus t...

Episode eight of the podcast digesting and analysing the week in sports news with Rob Harris and Martyn Ziegler joined by Tariq Panja. On the agenda on March 12, 2021: Doping scandal in British sport: How damaging is cycling doctor Richard Freeman's guilt in a drug case and what happens next? Manchester United's $100M share sale. What does it tell us about the Glazers' future? A radical idea to tr...

It's episode seven of the podcast digesting and analysing the week in sports news with Rob Harris and Martyn Ziegler joined by Tariq Panja. On the agenda on March 5, 2021: Hear from football lawmakers IFAB - with Gianni Infantino defending VAR, Pierluigi Collina on new offside technology and David Elleray on handball changes. African football expert Osasu Obayiuwana on Infantino meddling in the co...

It's episode six of the podcast digesting and analysing the week in sports news with Rob Harris and Martyn Ziegler joined by Tariq Panja. On the agenda on February 26, 2021: Why were the 2032 Olympics were effectively awarded to Australia this week without the unusual IOC fanfare? And what does the behind-the-scenes decision tells us about IOC President Thomas Bach? How are President Joe Biden and...

The big sports news issues of the week with Rob Harris and Martyn Ziegler, joined by Tariq Panja. On the agenda this week: How should horse racing respond to the Sheikh Mohammed scandal? Why should we be concerned about yet another attempted Russian doping cover-up? And what are challenges facing the new boss of the Tokyo Olympics? Plus hear key moment from the FT Business of Football Summit, incl...

The big sports news issues of the week analysed by Rob Harris, Martyn Ziegler and Tariq Panja. This week they are joined by Piara Powar, executive direct of FARE - football's main anti-discrimination group. The show's talking points include: Demands by English football leaders for tougher action from social media networks on racist abuse. The fallout from the resignation of the president of the To...

The big sports news issues of the week analysed by Rob Harris, Martyn Ziegler and Tariq Panja . On the agenda: The collapse in transfer window spending. TV rights turmoil in the French league but cricket returns to Channel 4 in Britain. Concerns over the leveraged takeover over Burnley The latest Tokyo Olympics rules and the athlete village sex ban An update on the new format for the expanded Cham...

The big sports news issues of the week analysed by Rob Harris, Martyn Ziegler and Tariq Panja . On the agenda:  We have more details from the IOC about how they think the Olympics can be staged this year, but what are the lingering issues facing Tokyo? Hear from the IOC President Thomas Bach, who was also questioned on human rights in China ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. UEFA also...

Rob Harris and Martyn Ziegler are joined by Tariq Panja to talk through the big issues facing sports leaders in 2021 on this episode. Plans are being made to reshape the Champions League from 2024 but will elite clubs manage to launch the breakaway Super League? UEFA is also grappling with uncertainty surrounding the European Championship it has already had to postpone once. Will it go ahead this...