The Sports Agents

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're supposed to take England's defeat to Japan and the weekend's FA Cup quarter-finals with another trophy on the line for Arsenal.
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Executive Producer: Adonis Pratsides
Producer: Sophie Penney & George Sexton-Kerr
Video Producer: Sam 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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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?
And after facing down protests in France, sections of the Tottenham fanbase are already voicing their concerns over De Zerbi's very public defence of Mason Greenwood.
Gabby and Mark are joined by host of The Fighting Cock Flav Bateman & Marseille based journalist George Boxall.
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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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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 Hughes, host of The Crime Agents - who has spent time undercover reporting on football hooliganism in England, and Blair McNally - who has amassed millions of views online documenting Scottish ultras.
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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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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, the money he still owed from Michael Johnson's 'Grand Slam Track' and that 'night night' celebration to his rival.
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Vicky Etchells is the Commissioning Editor for Global
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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 SPOTY, and even tattooed head coach John Mitchell! Now they go again in the Six Nations, with a new captain, fresh faces and a target on their back.
How do they get themselves motivated to go again at the Six Nations after that World Cup high? How is Meg Jones settling in as captain? Do they get recognised way more after the summer's success? And has Ellie tattooed any of her team mates?
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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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