The Wrap UP: 2024's Highlights Reel; What we heard and what we thought

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The Wrap UP of 2024

We published 84 podcasts in 2024 listened to in 154 countries.

Here are the top 12:

1. Too Big To Fail: Man City and the legal fight that could change the Premier League

2. Inside the £250million Two Circles sale

3. Lalit Modi Exclusive: ‘The Hundred is a non starter’

4. If Netflix Ran Sport

5. UK Athletics CEO: ‘The Olympics are in more trouble than people realise’

6. Wedge Issues: Rick Shiels Exclusive

7. The 3: The Big Swinging Dick Episode

8. What Just Happened? How the opening up of the US betting market explains the NBA’s $75billion rights bonanza

9. What is FIFA+? Netflix for Football or Infantino’s White Elephant?

10. Other People’s Money: What happens when P/E owns you?

11. Roger Mitchell’s Perfect Storm

12. The Bundle: NFL and FIFA global ambitions; The Gary Lineker Question

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Thanks for listening, reading and following.

There’s plenty more where that came from lined up for 2025.

Happy Christmas.

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