The Sports Agents

Football royalty on today’s show as Gabby & Mark are joined by 4x Champions League-winner Clarence Seedorf , to talk about the pressure of a title run in as Arsenal 's season hangs in the balance after defeat against Manchester City on the weekend. Clarence reflects on breaking major trophy droughts with his famous Ajax and Real Madrid teams and discusses the differences in how Mikel Arteta 's...

After Liverpool became the SIXTH English club to fall victim to Luis Enrique's all-conquering PSG in the Champions League - does their unique blend of intensity & swagger feel more and more like an indictment of Premier League pragmatism. So how do they keep peaking at just the right time in the season, why wasn't there more of a battle to sign the likes of Kvicha Kvaratskhelia and which PSG s...

After a massive weekend of sport, Gabby & Mark sit down to reflect on Rory McIlroy going back-to-back at The Masters , Arsenal 's annual April meltdown and after Neftlix announced Anthony Joshua will finally fight Tyson Fury - how close the two fighters are to actually agreeing to it? 📩 Got a question? Send it here: https://forms.gle/9SBbW1SYWqXLKnRT7 💭 Tell us your thoughts in our listener...

Rory McIlroy returns to Augusta looking to be the 4th man in history to retain the green jacket. His Masters dinner was reportedly the 'most expensive' ever but it was without Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson ... will he be able to join them both as back-to-back winners instead? Bryson De Chambeau is making his own clubs, Scottie Scheffler has arrived with a newborn son and Justin Rose is hoping to...

Gabby Logan is joined by football finance expert Kieran Maguire ( Price of Football podcast) to discuss the true cost of relegation from the Premier League... particularly for those clubs that may not have seen it coming? And later, Nick Montgomery - Recently a key part of Ange Postecoglou 's backroom team at both Spurs and Nottingham Forest before becoming head coach of Beijing Goan FC - provides...

Aden Durde became the first British-born coach to win a Super Bowl when the Seattle Seahawks masterminded a dominant display in California in February. His story is almost unheard of in sport - from coaching grassroots level here in UK - to the very top of the NFL . But what has made him so successful? How did a chance advert in a North London shop spark his career? And as the Premier League 's ma...

It’s official, this summer's World Cup will be the third consecutive tournament without Italy … Gabby & Mark are joined by Italian football writer James Horncastle to explore the 'curse', the political fallout in Rome and the questions over youth talent and foreign players that will feel oddly familiar to England fans who lived through 2010 in South Africa. Plus, the guys ask how seriously we'...

After just 44 days in charge, Spurs parted company with Igor Tudor - making him the third manager sacked since last June… with the club just one point above the relegation zone, Roberto De Zerbi has been tasked with saving their season. But is he the right man to stave off the Championship ? It’s only been a couple months since his own sensational exit at Marseille , but what actually happened? An...

The fan phenomenon of ‘ Ultras ’ has taken Scotland by storm… TIFO’s, flares and drums - like we’re used to seeing in Europe - popping up everywhere from the Old Firm right down to the 4th division. So can this sub-culture be a force for good in an online sphere dominated by the ‘ manosphere ’ or is it actually just another mask for something more sinister? Gabby & Mark are joined by Andy Hugh...

Mo Salah reveals he’ll be leaving Liverpool at the end of this season, Erling Haaland buys one of the last remaining Viking texts in existence & Ben White is back in the England squad for the first time since 2022. And following a Gold rush for Team GB at a sensational World Indoor Championships , 3000m winner Josh Kerr joins us in studio to talk about regaining his title a year after injury,...

Gabby goes down to the England Rugby training ground ahead of the Women's Six Nations to meet former World Player of the Year Ellie Kildunne and her fellow World Cup winner Jess Breach. The duo scored 11 tries between them at the World Cup before England lifted the trophy at Twickenham in front of the second biggest crowd ever for a World Cup final, men's or women. Ellie was named runner-up at SPO...

It has been like the longest VAR ruling in history… the match finished two months ago, the Africa Cup of Nations trophy was presented, the considerable celebrations and recriminations were complete. And then, just as some last-16 Champions League fixtures were finishing on Tuesday night, a communication dropped from CAF. Senegal had actually forfeited the match by staging their now infamous walk-o...

Weeks ago we were talking about English dominance in Europe, now just Liverpool and Arsenal make it to the quarter finals of the Champions League . Manchester City , Chelsea , Newcastle and Spurs were dumped out, conceding 28 goals between them in the round of 16… so what happened? Liam Rosenior said his players were tired… but was that ‘dominance’ even there in the first place? Or is the scheduli...

What were you doing when you were 16 years and 73 days old?... Max Dowman was last seen gliding across the length of a Premier League pitch, scoring a goal that rewrote history… and maybe even tilted a title race. Max ‘Dowmania’ may be upon us but as the predictable calls start for Dowman to be thrust into England’s World Cup plans for this summer - has football got any better at protecting its pr...

Playing in front of a record 80,000 fans at Twickenham , captaining your country in a World Cup final and winning World Rugby’s Player of the Year … all in a day's work for Sophie De Goede . All that despite returning from a huge ACL injury just one month before the World Cup, Canada crowdfunding to get there, and training against teammates' partners to make up the numbers. Sophie joins Gabby and...

17 minutes was all it took for Igor Tudor to sub off Antonín Kinský on his Champions League debut after two mistakes and three goals conceded. Subbing a keeper is unheard of… so was Tudor right to make the change? Or with Spurs fans serenading Mauricio Pochettino on a plane - is it off with Tudor's head? Then on Wednesday night, goalies also made the limelight... Filip Jörgensen ’s mistake started...

There’s been a lot of soul searching in England after the Six Nations disaster continued with their first ever loss to Italy. But for the team sitting one below them in the table, the problems run even deeper. Wales were ranked top in the world in 2019, but now they have only won 2 of their last 26 matches. It’s so bad financially that one of four professional clubs will be cut. So how did it get...

When the Winter Paralympics get underway this weekend in Italy history will be made. Davy Zyw was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 30 and given 18 months to live… but he’s now 38 and he’s going to be the first person to compete at a Winter Paralympics with MND. Defying his degenerating body, Davy will compete on the board for ParalympicsGB, with his five-year-old son watching on....

It’s crunch time for England in the Six Nations this weekend. If they go from Grand Slam hopes to losing to Italy … it doesn’t bear thinking about. Steve Borthwick has gone bold with 9 changes - very uncharacteristic for the man who worships consistency. So is this Borthwick officially pushing the panic button? And could a mid-week visit from Thomas Tuchel help push them over the line? Gabby is jo...

War in the Middle East has cast a new shadow over the World Cup this summer. This is a human tragedy first and foremost but questions are being asked about the impact on the world’s most watched sporting event. Could we see Iran pull out of the tournament? And is Gianni Infantino regretting his bromance with President Trump ? Plus, Gabby and Mark chat about Leeds manager Daniel Farke 's red card a...

The recent killing of Mexican drug lord ‘El Mencho’ has caused unrest and cartel violence across the country. Guadalajara - one of Mexico’s host cities in this summer’s World Cup - was one of the worst affected. So what state are we left in, just months away from the tournament? Should fans be worried about the threat of cartel violence? And with ICE and President Trump ever present in the U.S. -...

If we had a penny for every time we’ve spoken about Drive To Survive on this show, we would be rich. Formula One 's Netflix series is the golden example of how to grow a sport by making it cool again. F1’s global fan base has reportedly grown by hundreds of millions since Drive To Survive launched in 2019, and three in four new fans are female. So as Season 8 airs, has any other sports audience ev...

Just two weeks ago it was a completely different story for England at the Six Nations . From undefeated in 12 games and to two losses on the bounce. Spare a thought for the England fans who bought tickets to the final weekend in Paris, thinking it would be a Grand Slam decider… But are we all overreacting? Do England need to change to avoid the unthinkable against Italy? And what does this mean in...

Russian and Belarusian athletes will be allowed to represent their countries at the upcoming Winter Paralympics. For the first time since 2014, since Russia’s state-sponsored doping programme and the war with Ukraine, we will see the Russian flag and potentially hear the anthem. Ukrainian officials are boycotting, but FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, has also recently said he wants to lift footba...

In the Champions League this week Real Madrid 's Vinicius Junior stopped the match after alleged racial abuse by Gianluca Prestianni . Prestianni denies it ever happened. Today Gabby and Mark discuss the fall out from the incident. And later they're joined by former England striker Emile Heskey who’s launching the Football Safety App to help fight abuse in football and make it easier to report. Al...