Goal Own Goal is back with its very personalised look at the power of football, and the perils of sporting hubris. No offence meant.
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AYNE 47, Season 5 – 25 May 2023
The Groundsmen welcome Mark Watts, founder of Whaivu Holdings. He has been one of the most successful investors and advisors of his generation, particularly in media and tech. He is now bringing his insight into the opportunities and calamities that face sports around the world.
AYNE 46, Season 5 – 18 May 2023
Goal/Own Goal returns with its usual petty and ill-informed ranting. Those taking a kicking this week include the PFA, CVC, ultra fans, and most sports governing bodies. Because… why not?
AYNE 45, Season 5 – 4 May 2023
The Captain meets the Executive Director of the NFL Players Association, DeMaurice Smith. Voted in the top 10 most powerful executives in sport, De reflects on his 15 years at leading the NFLPA.
AYNE 44, Season 5 – 27 April 2023
The Groundsmen welcome back Eddie Pepperell, one of our most popular repeat guests and a vocal, well liked golfer on the European Tour. We ask Eddie where the game is now and whether the powers-that-be should consider coming together to discuss a peace settlement.
AYNE 43, Season 5 – 20 April 2023
The Groundsmen meet this week Michael Spirito – Founding Partner of Sapphire Sports – one of the leading Venture Capital investors in the sports industry globally. What follows is a candid and honest conversation about the challenges and opportunities facing founders in the sports, media and tech space.
AYNE 42, Season 5 – 6 April 2023
GOG is back with such a juicy talk! There’s something for everybody: Trump, Berrettini’s sex toy, F1 chaos. Laughing at Chelsea, Warren Buffett, football closed periods, March Madness, and Masters golf full of LIV tension.
AYNE 41, Season 5 – 30 March 2023
AYNE second episode of this Falcon Series discusses the relationship and emergence with sports and rights holders in the Middle East.
AYNE 40, Season 5 – 23 March 2023
The lads are obliged, this week, to dig deep into what meltdowns in the banking world could mean for sport. Still a few laughs also. Coz it’s GOG.
AYNE 39, Season 5 – 16 March 2023
The Groundsmen meet with one of the most influential figures in sport and finance: Elliot Richardson, co-founder of Dugout, that merged with One Football, co-chairman of Howden Tiger and lifelong Arsenal fan.
AYNE 38, Season 5 – 9 March 2023
Grant and Rog put on their proper finance hats on today’s episode of Goal Own Goal. When is PE going to have to take a 50% haircut on valuations? For how long will the Saudi capital hang around golf? But isn’t the EPL just amazing?
AYNE 37, Season 5 – 2 March 2023
The Groundsmen meet once more Joe Markowski, today’s DAZN USA CEO and discuss sport’s and Dazn’s future, following a period of tremendous change.
AYNE 36, Season 5 – 23 February 2023
It’s GOG, with the usual mix of petty schoolboy sniggers, and decent macro analysis of sport’s winds of change. Not an episode Nick Clarry will enjoy, as the lads don’t hold back on the shambles of rugby.
AYNE 35, Season 5 – 16 February 2023
AYNE welcomes Pádraig Harrington, 3 times Major winner and one of Ireland’s most successful ever golfers. We cover his career, his thoughts on the world of golf, and his pride in being an Irish Olympian.
AYNE 34, Season 5 – 9 February 2023
Are we living in a simulation or is this world real? The usual petty and ill-informed sports conversation, about everything absurd, together with some occasional business, geopolitical and high finance chat. It’s Goal Own Goal!
AYNE 33, Season 5 – 12 January 2023
The usual petty and ill-informed sports conversation, together with some occasional business, geopolitical and high finance chat. It’s Goal Own Goal!
AYNE 32, Season 5 – 12 January 2023
The first GOG of this New Year, there is never nothing to talk about. From princely squabbles to honour in footy. From dart mania to sport nepotism… it’s Goal Own Goal.
AYNE 31, Season 5 – 22 December 2022
In the final “Groundsmen Conversations” of 2022, Grant, Roger and Giles reflect on the recent FIFA World Cup and the implications for major sporting events in the future. They also look back on a year which has seen extraordinary performances on the field.
AYNE 30, Season 5 – 15 December 2022
The usual petty and ill-informed sports nonsense, together with some serious geopolitical and high finance chat. It’s Goal Own Goal.
AYNE 29, Season 5 – 8 December 2022
The “Groundsmen Conversations” hosts Iain Carter, a most respected BBC golf journalist, about the LIV golf tournament debate.
AYNE 28, Season 5 – 1 December 2022
It’s GOG again… or better. From the Sublime (Doddie Weir) to the Ridiculous (FIFA, IOC, Ronaldo). It’s all about being fit for purpose…
AYNE 27, Season 5 – 24 November 2022
The “Groundsmen Conversations” hosts Lee Westwood, one of the most successful English professional golfers. What’s golf future?
AYNE 26, Season 5 – 17 November 2022
GOG is back discussing the calamities in crypto and Twitter. With an eye also to Qatar and the imminent World Cup.
AYNE 25, Season 5 – 10 November 2022
The “Groundsmen Conversations” hosts Simon Halliday, former rugby pro and Chairman of European Professional Club Rugby.
AYNE 24, Season 5 – 3 November 2022
The “Groundsmen Conversations” hosts Steve Kuhn, the Texan driving forward the US fastest growing sport of pickleball.
AYNE 23, Season 5 – 27 October 2022
The “Groundsmen Conversations” hosts Steve Kuhn, the Texan driving forward the US fastest growing sport of pickleball.
AYNE 22, Season 5 – 20 October 2022
GOG is back at its purest form: from the poignant to the pathetic, from economic theory to Erling Haaland, from fascism to 4-4-2. If you didn’t laugh, you’d cry.
AYNE 21, Season 5 – 13 October 2022
The “Groundsmen Conversations” hosts Ed Smith, a former England cricketer, national selector, author, lecturer, historian and columnist. The modern sports Polymath.
AYNE 20, Season 5 – 5 October 2022
The “Groundsmen Conversations” hosts Jon Ridgeon, former British Olympian and CEO of World Athletics today.
AYNE 19, Season 5 – 29 September 2022
The Groundsmen discuss the themes from Sport Summit Como and, in particular, the intense volatility of the financial markets of today.
AYNE 18, Season 5 – 15 September 2022
The “Groundsmen Conversations” hosts Lucas von Cranach, founder of OneFootball, a company too big to be misunderstood.
AYNE 17, Season 5 – 8 September 2022
The “Groundsmen Conversations” hosts Theo Westerman, owner of the 2022 Palio di Siena’s winning horse.
AYNE 16, Season 5 – 1 September 2022
Andy Nicol and Giles Morgan meet the amazing Hastings family clan, a concentration of extraordinary sporting talent.
AYNE 15, Season 5 – 25 August 2022
“Not Your Boyfriend’s GOG” this week, as the lads eviscerate women footballers attitudes, Giggs, Brooklyn Beckham. And Grant’s vicious takedown of the Hundred.
AYNE 14, Season 5 – 18 August 2022
The “Groundsmen Conversations” hosts Georgie Wilkinson, the Dunlop Masters Superbike racer, to discuss how she fell in love with her sport.
AYNE 13, Season 5 – 11 August 2022
The lads discuss Fantasy Football, Vin Scully, Nancy Pelosi, Brittney Griner, Bill Russell, Magic Johnson and so much more!
AYNE 12, Season 5 – 4 August 2022
The “Groundsmen Conversations” hosts Laurie Pinto, aka “the Michael Caine of the football finance world”. We look at the world of sport M&A, valuations, and macro-finance.
AYNE 11, Season 5 – 28 July 2022
MidSummer Groundsmen reflect on the events of the summer in sport. Mainly around the Barbarians at the Turnstiles of the world’s golf Tours.
AYNE 10, Season 5 – 21 July 2022
The “Groundsmen Conversations” hosts Corey Leff, aka “JohnWallStreet”, to look at pastures new and discuss what is happening in American sport.
AYNE 9, Season 5 – 14 July 2022
The lads discuss whether sport Private Equity is set up for a major fall? Plus, the usual GOG nonsense around Vince McMahon, Blatter, Elon, Kyrgios, Leclerc.
AYNE 8, Season 5 – 7 July 2022
The Groundsmen welcome again Andrew Croker, one of the great characters of the sports industry over the past 40 years.
AYNE 7, Season 5 – 30 June 2022
Andy Nicol and Giles Morgan meet Australian rugby legend Michael Lynagh and his son Louis, who is fast following in his father’s footsteps. Is nature more important than nurture?
AYNE 6, Season 5 – 23 June 2022
The Groundsmen welcome Barry Hearn, one of the legendary, most influential, outspoken and successful businessmen in sport.
AYNE 5, Season 5 – 16 June 2022
From Royal Family table etiquette, Mike Owen’s Love Island travails to the (very) politically incorrect Berlusconi and Monza, FIFA (in)justice, TT deaths, some golf and more!
AYNE 4, Season 5 – 9 June 2022
The Groundsmen welcome Andrew Croker, one of the great characters of the sports industry over the past 40 years.
AYNE 3, Season 5 – 2 June 2022
In the final episode of this Web3 series, we talk again with our first guest, Robby Yung. A deeper dive into their sports investments with OneFootball, Dapper Labs, and Move.ai, in the context of a turbulent 5 months for the sector.
AYNE 2, Season 5 – 26 May 2022
The Groundsmen hosts Barney Francis, one of the most influential executives in sports for the last decade. He talks Sky Sports and now IMG Media.
AYNE 1, Season 5 – 24 May 2022
First show of our brand new series, “Generations”, hosted by Andy Nicol and Giles Morgan. Sports TV presenter Gabby Logan and her rugby International husband Kenny are our first guests.