The Sports Agents

On Celebrity Traitors , Joe Marler showed the world how entertaining rugby players can be. Despite the best efforts of Marler, Henry Pollock and the Red Roses , rugby is still wrestling with tradition and how to reinvent itself as something more ‘entertaining’. Today we’re joined by ex-England captain Mike Tindall , who’s setting up the controversial ‘R360’ league to try and revolutionise the...

No Champions League football for Mo Salah tonight after he dropped a bombshell. In a very rare media interview Salah said he's been "thrown under the bus" by Liverpool and has no relationship with manager Arne Slot . He thinks someone at the struggling club wants him kicked out. Was Salah right to speak out? Has he played his last game for Liverpool? And can Arne Slot survive this? Gabby and Mark...

Six-time Olympic cycling champion Sir Chris Hoy joins Gabby and Mark after his terminal prostate cancer diagnosis at just 47 years old. What more does Chris think the government should be doing to help? How has his sporting background helped him? And why is he excited for the Darts World Championship? And we bring you the best bits from The Sports Agents this week from President Trump meddling in...

The rumour is Serena Williams could be making a comeback. She signed up for anti-doping and the fans have gone wild. Our guest today was Serena's coach for 10 years and 10 Grand Slams, Patrick Mouratoglou . So what does Patrick make of the rumours? (8:06) Mark and Gabby react to Joe Root 's maiden century in Australia at the Ashes and Chelsea 's Elland Road hoodoo. (1:20) And we're joined by four-...

It's the FIFA World Cup draw this week - welcome to the crazy world of President Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino with Cristiano Ronaldo 's red card written off, the new FIFA Peace Prize, 48 teams and more. To explain the madness The Athletic's Adam Crafton joins Gabby and Mark. After Max Verstappen reacted to McLaren CEO Zak Brown calling him a horror villain on The Sports Agents, we rea...

Can other sports teach football a thing or two? On today's show Gabby and Mark take your suggestions on how to fix football, using your passion for a massive range of sports. Plus, we look back at The Sports Agents this week: a huge interview with McLaren CEO Zak Brown as Lando Norris could win them the world title this weekend; and we talk about the elephant in the room at struggling Liverpool -...

Another season of F1 drama comes to an end this weekend as McLaren 's Lando Norris has the chance to be crowned world champion. And the man who’s masterminded it all - McLaren CEO Zak Brown is with us today. After the double disqualification in Las Vegas from a 0.07mm error, Max Verstappen ’s impossible late charge, and the season-long battle with team-mate Oscar Piastri , there's plenty for us to...

It's been 60 years since Liverpool last had back-to-back 3-0 defeats in the league, and with only three wins in the last 11 games, Arne Slot has got his work cut out. Aside from all the on-pitch factors, there's one thing Liverpool are contending with that can't be underestimated - grief. Diogo Jota ’s tragic death, in a car accident last July, prompted a summer of grief. Just one month later Live...

Only three days after launching, Sky had to take down its TikTok channel for female sports fans. Branded as the "lil-sis" of Sky Sports, it was complete with pink hearts and Barbies. But were they on to something? How do we get more young women hooked on sport? The person who figures that out has hit a goldmine. To try to strike gold, Gabby chats to Chris Paouros , Vice-Chair of the Football Suppo...

It's the Ashes this weekend! Gabby and Mark relive their favourite Ashes memories and welcome three-time Ashes winner, Steven Finn . England’s men last won the Ashes in Australia 15 years ago, in fact it’s been a decade since England even held The Ashes - and Finn was key to both of those victories. Does Finn think England can turn the tide this time? And how did he go from being declared "unselec...

"If we don't beat you, we'll knock your bloody blocks off" In one of the most bitter and controversial Ashes series ever played, England set their sights on taking down Australian cricketing legend Don Bradman . Their method? A brutal, calculated strategy known as Bodyline - a tactic so aggressive it sparked outrage, strained diplomatic ties, and forever changed the spirit of the game. In this epi...

Do you stream sport illegally ? Most people know someone who does: almost 5 million people streamed live sport illegally in the UK in the last 6 months alone. It's cheaper than Premier League tickets or official streaming services, and you can watch the 3pm blackout games - but the risk of data theft, cyber crime, and funding criminal activity are all too real. To find out more, Gabby's joined by...

Never write off a born racer: Sir Mark Cavendish had won 30 stages of the world's biggest cycling race, The Tour de France (even winning one makes a riders career) but he'd been out of the game for 5 years - so no one would give him a job. What happened next was one of the biggest comebacks of all time to put him among the sporting greats. Sir Mark Cavendish joins us on today's show - how did it f...

This weekend it's the latest chapter in the family feud as Conor Benn takes on Chris Eubank Jr , for a rematch after the sensational first fight in April. But unlike their dads, Conor and Chris Jr don't naturally fight at the same weight and there's a controversial clause that could leave Eubank Jr dangerously dehydrated. So is it safe to stage this fight again? Is it British boxing rivalry gettin...

In the last episode of Season 2, as we gear up for the Ashes , Mark Pougatch and Paul Hayward bring you the story of Australian media magnate Kerry Packer , who all the current players should be thanking. Packer turned the gentile game of Test cricket upside down as he signed the captains of England, Australia and the West Indies to what some called his 'rebel circus'. For two years at the end of...

We've all been guilty of using ChatGPT once in a while, Head Coach Laura Harvey even admitted she used it for tactics in the American women's league. The Premier League , NFL , England Rugby ... you name it, they're using AI. Scouting players by predicting how they'll fit in at a new team, optimising tactics on the field and making individual injury prevention plans. So Gabby and Mark are joined b...

We've been Traitors mad so Clare Balding joined Gabby and Mark for a slightly different episode of The Sports Agents . Don't worry there's no spoilers from the final! Is she bitter no one listened to her about Alan ? Why did everyone underestimate Joe Marler ? What did Claire tell the producers they should change about the game? And how did Claire know Celia was going to fart? Plus we look back at...

Mark Pougatch and Paul Hayward bring you the story of Althea Gibson - don't worry if you've never heard of her, few have! Arthur Ashe is a name immediately recognisable to every tennis fan - and most sports fans. He was the first Black man to win the US Open, the Australian Open and Wimbledon - and the largest tennis stadium in the world, the US Open main court, is named after him. But he wasn’t t...

Mary Earps joins Gabby and Mark on The Sports Agents. The Euros winner and two-time FIFA Best goalkeeper tells Gabby and Mark why she left England before this summer's Euros, what relations were like with Hannah Hampton & Sarina Wiegman , and what it was like to watch England win that trophy from the sidelines. Mary also opens up about whether Manchester United value their women's team, freezi...

Sir Gareth Southgate joins Gabby & Mark on The Sports Agents! The man who led England's men to two Euros finals, missing out on that first trophy since 1966 by a whisker, tells us why he decided to step down, what he makes of Thomas Tuchel not selecting Southgate's star Jude Bellingham , and if the Man United job was ever on the cards? Gareth also opens up about a lack of positive role models...

Did you know the government doesn't fund deaf athletes, because they aren’t allowed to compete at the Paralympics?  For 100 years now they’ve been holding their own competition - the Deaflympics - where referee whistles are replaced by flag signals, and starting guns by flashing lights. But no Paralympics means no funding. All because they were born with the so-called “wrong” disability....

Former England cricketer Phil Tufnell , who played in five Ashes series, joins Gabby and Mark to share his love letter to the Ashes, just weeks out from the competition. He has us in stitches with his stories from Down Under, from outrageous sledging to his hilarious first meeting with his England team mates. And how does he think England will get on this winter? And on that theme Gabby and Mark c...

It's one of the most iconic photos in Olympic history: Mary Decker falling flat on her face as Zola Budd runs past her bare foot. Decker, America’s golden girl and the World Champion on home turf, against Budd, from apartheid-ridden South Africa, who acquired a British passport in double quick time to line up, against her own will. Mark Pougatch and Paul Hayward bring you the story behind the phot...

Today’s story involves everything from the five families of the New York mafia , x-ray glasses at rigged poker games, FBI arrests and huge bets placed on inside information. As the NBA was rocked by an illegal sports gambling scandal, Gabby and Mark catch up with Andy Hughes (Host of The Crime Agents and Crime Correspondent for LBC) and Mike Vorkunov (The Athletic's Basketball Business Reporter)....

Formula One might be about to witness a comeback worthy of a Drive to Survive Hollywood film. With five races to go, the McLaren driver win that seemed as certain as death and taxes, has suddenly been put in jeopardy by Max Verstappen and Red Bull . Could they pull off the impossible? Gabby and Mark are joined by 13-time Grand Prix winner David Coulthard , who has history with both teams as a worl...