Latest Champions League revamp row; ex-Coke exec on morality & pandemic challenges for sponsors; anti-doping probe into British Cycling; Spain-Kosovo dispute in football; agents’ fees rise

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.
• So much of sport is funded by the commercial backers. We'll talk to Ricardo Fort, the recently-departed sports sponsorship chief from Cola-Cola on the pandemic challenges, morality issues with event host nations and increasing investment in women's sport.
• We'll also tell you about the highest paid company boss in Britain as Bet 365 chief executive Denise Coates, whose family owns Stoke City, earns £469m in a year.
• If you're a foreign fan now barred from going to the Tokyo Olympics, there's now a challenge getting all your cash back.
• There's another scandal in British cycling with the World Anti-Doping Agency investigating and concerns for future Olympic medal prospects.
• And the diplomatic dispute behind Spanish TV not recognising Kosovo as a country in their World Cup qualifier.
• Plus FIFA has revealed the cities being used at the Women's World Cup in 2023 across Australia and New Zealand.

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