The Sports Agents
4.4/5
Critic Rating
Gabby Logan & Mark Chapman, two of the UK’s top sports broadcasters, host a twice-weekly podcast exploring the biggest stories from the world of sport... From Football to the Olympics, Rugby's future, Boxing's identity crisis, the latest Formula 1 soap opera, the NFL and beyond... you name it, The Sports Agents have got it covered - and will bring you inside behind the scenes at some of the greatest sporting events from around the world too. Drawing on their wealth of experience and insight, with exclusive interviews and expert analysis, Gabby & Mark tackle the big questions and explain not just what’s ha...
Critic Reviews
Score: 4.5
Patrick Carter • Podcast Rex • Mar 21, 2024
"The danger of these big, professionally fronted shows is that you risk never hearing anything radical or new, with too much at stake for the well-practised presenters to ever go out on a limb and give anything other than the broadly accepted consensus. To its credit, The Sports Agents hasn’t shied away from that risk, and its hosts have done a decent job of putting personality on display when it counts."
Score: 3
James Marriot • The Times UK • Mar 19, 2024
"Logan and Chapman are total pros: brisk, well informed and good-natured...here the jovial banter about who had what for breakfast is relatively minimal. The result is that it sounds a lot more like a radio show (and, you might argue, much more like proper journalism) than the two-hander podcasts at the top of the charts."
Score: 4.5
Miranda Sawyer • The Guardian • Mar 16, 2024
"The Sports Agents is highly enjoyable, though I have a couple of little structural niggles, chiefly that the show preamble is too long and unscripted. Logan and Chapman went to interview D’Souza and the result was riveting, mostly because Logan, in particular, did not hold back. Straight from the off she challenged D’Souza’s woolly statistics, told him “don’t patronise me” when he told her she was old-fashioned, and held him very strongly to account. Ooh, I loved her getting cross. We don’t see this side of Logan on the BBC..."
Score: 5
Scott Bryan • Podcast Rex • Mar 10, 2024
"...expect it to have the same breeziness but level of insight as its sister podcast The News Agents in a very busy sporting year ahead..."
Score: 5
Hannah Verdier • The Guardian • Mar 7, 2024
"As familiar voices in the arena, these two have seen their fair share of Euros, Wimbledons and Olympics so they promise to bring big-name guests and analysis to the packed sporting calendar."
