Hello and welcome to Business of Sport: The Breakdown, a brand new show where we will be reviewing the week’s biggest stories from sport business. Hosted by Charlie Stebbings & Charlie Methven, the former CEO of Sunderland and Charlton among multiple other roles in sport with organisations such as McLaren and The Jockey Club,The Breakdown will analyse the biggest commercial, financial, and strategic stories shaping global sports.

To prepare for the full launch in January, this week we are releasing the pilot, aimed at getting this show ready to deliver for you! We want your feedback, comments, suggestions and ideas to make this the place you can get your weekly fill of the business of sport.

So why are we doing this? Well as we continue to rattle on about on the interview show, the business of sport has never been of more importance or more relevance to fans, to executives, to investors, to athletes. And the current news needs a bit of digesting. We will be talking through various stories from the week, looking at takeovers, investments, governance decisions, athlete deals…you name it, we’ll talk about it.

First up:

- Does England’s collapse in Perth create a financial problem for cricket?

- Should Ronaldo be banned for the World Cup?

- Is Toto Wolff’s part sale of Mercedes a worry for F1?

- What are the ramifications of Anthony Joshua’s fight with Jake Paul?

This is Business of Sport: The Breakdown

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In Today's Show We Discuss:

00:00 Intro

04:05 The Cost Of England’s Ashes Collapse

17:04 AJ + Jake Paul: Business Before Belts

29:27 When Ronaldo’s Marketing Beats The Rulebook / The Ronaldo Effect

35:02 Wolff’s 15% Shake-Up: Win Or Warning