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Are You Not Entertained?
by Sandton Productions for Albachiara sagl
Honest, amusing but above all, authentic, Roger Mitchell, Grant Williams and Giles Morgan invite guests from all corners of the sport, music and entertainment worlds to join them and discuss how the game has changed, where it might be headed and what that means for the people who matter the most; the fans
Episodes
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AYNE 832 - Goal/Own Goal
This week’s Goal Own Goal returns from the international break with Roger and Grant discussing German spies, upside-down Hull City footballers, the enduring magnificence of Ian Botham, and whether sporting greatness requires a little arrogance, swagger, and complete indifference to being liked.…
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AYNE 831 - Citizen AYNE: Nick Bourne
Roger Mitchell and Mark Oliver are joined by Nick Bourne of the ATP to explore the battle for attention, aggregation and the future of sports content. From his pioneering work at Copa90 and the rise of football’s creator-led media, to the lessons of Netflix’s Break Point, Nick explains why the…
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AYNE 830 - Citizen AYNE: Ben Morel
Roger Mitchell and Mark Oliver are joined by Ben Morel, former Six Nations and NBA executive, to examine whether sport is reaching the limits of commercialization. From French football’s media-rights crisis and the fight against piracy to rugby’s crowded calendar, private-equity investment and…
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AYNE 829 - Goal/Own Goal: The FIFA Discussion
This wide release of last week’s special live edition of Goal Own Goal goes from the FIFA Forward enterprise plan and the sheer chaos around Infantino’s latest power play to a properly sharp discussion about what football has become, who it is really for, and what happens when the game starts...
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AYNE 828 - Citizen AYNE: Davide Tesoro-Tess
Roger Mitchell and Mark Oliver are joined by Davide Tesoro-Tess, the strategist who helped shape Sky Italy, to unpack the biggest media question of the moment: what happens when consolidation, separation and vertical integration all start happening at once? From Comcast and Sky to RTL, MFE and…
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AYNE 827 - THE CAPTAINS TABLE - Brian Moore
Brian Moore, one of the most recognised and colourful characters in English rugby over the last forty years, joins The Captain this week. A man with a wide and varied career, he was not only a formidable rugby player who represented England and the British Lions, but has also been a solicitor,...
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AYNE 826 - Goal/Own Goal
This week’s Goal/Own Goal swings from the Open Championship’s pure sporting theatre to Bryson DeChambeau’s full-bore nonsense, with Grant and Roger tearing into the difference between actually winning and simply making everything about yourself. From there it’s a sharp, slightly brutal World Cup...
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AYNE 825 - The Confessional: Charlie Methven
In this episode of The Confessional, Roger Mitchell sits down with Charlie Methven for a sharp, candid conversation about leadership, football, and the hard lessons that come with both. Charlie reflects on the personal cost of a life lived on the move, the tension between honest words and public...
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AYNE 824 - Goal/Own Goal
This week’s Goal Own Goal is a World Cup special that kicks off with Roger’s overcooked summit-wine haze and Donald Trump somehow ending up in a fight with Giorgia Meloni, before the real debate lands: whether England’s win over Mexico was the birth of belief or just one of those classic moments...
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AYNE 823 - THE CAPTAINS TABLE - Jon Miller
Jon Miller - President of NBC Sports Programming joins The Captain this week. One of the most influential and powerful executives in North American sport - Jon Miller is the man responsible for NBC”s and Peacock’s extraordinary sports broadcasting - including the Olympic Games, The English…
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AYNE 822 - Citizen AYNE: Mike Darcey
Roger Mitchell and Mark Oliver welcome Mike Darcey, former strategic brain behind Sky and ex‑CEO of News UK, for a deep dive into the messy frontier where sport rights, streaming and regulation collide. Using Rupert Murdoch’s quiet war on the NFL as a starting point, they unpack 60 years of...
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AYNE 821 - Goal/Own Goal
This week’s Goal Own Goal is a special World Cup edition that starts with Trump somehow picking a public fight with Giorgia Meloni and ends with England suddenly playing like a 1990s Premier League side under Tuchel instead of suffering through another Southgate straitjacket. Grant and Roger chew...
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AYNE 820 - The Confessional: Ray Ranson
In this episode of The Confessional, Roger Mitchell sits down with Ray Ranson for a frank conversation about the move from football to business, and the harder lessons that came with it. Ray reflects on the ruthless side of life in deals, the pressure of keeping a game face, the painful lesson of...
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AYNE 819 - Goal/Own Goal
This week’s Goal Own Goal swings from Roland Garros heat exhaustion and prize-money grumbling to the usual grand tour of football’s modern absurdities: Celtic’s managerial politics, Arsenal’s latest lesson in defending like their lives depend on it, PSG’s triumph, women’s football still waiting…
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AYNE 818 - THE CAPTAINS TABLE - Jon Dutton
Season 3 of The Captain’s Table focuses on the movers and shakers of the sports industry. This week, The Captain is joined by the real Sheriff of British Sport, Jon Dutton — not of Yellowstone fame, but the current CEO of British Cycling and soon-to-be CEO of Team GB, the British Olympic...
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AYNE 817 - Citizen AYNE: Peter Hutton
Roger Mitchell and Mark Oliver are joined by Peter Hutton – a man who has worked for three modern moguls, Murdoch, Zaslav and Zuckerberg – to unpack what sport really means to big media in 2026. From Eurosport and the Olympics to Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount and the Saudi Pro League, they…
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AYNE 816 - Goal/Own Goal
Arsenal’s title charge, Celtic’s ugly finish, and the Southampton spying mess anchor a week where football’s rawest instincts beat the PR fluff. The World Cup cash grab looms, sport’s dressing-room power games are laid bare, and the whole thing ends back where it belongs: with football, chaos…
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AYNE 815 - The Confessional: Ant Arena
Roger Mitchell sits down with Australian entrepreneur Ant Arena for a candid conversation about ambition, setbacks and what happens when a big idea hits the real world. From building Aura, an AI-driven sports streaming platform, to battling government delays, cash flow pressure and deals that...
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AYNE 814 - Goal/Own Goal
Grant and Roger dive into a vintage Old Firm weekend and a three‑way Scottish title race, with Hearts crashing the party while a clueless Labour leader suggests Celtic and Rangers should politely cheer for each other. From there they go big picture: Rangers’ lost menace, clubs rebranded into...
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AYNE 813 - Citizen AYNE
Roger Mitchell and Mark Oliver launch Citizen AYNE, a new AYNE series inspired by Citizen Kane, by rewinding to the white‑heat of the dot‑com boom and Roger’s time running the Scottish Premier League. Using their first deal together as a live case study, they unpack how tech money, over-excited...
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AYNE 812 - Goal/Own Goal
Grant’s racing the clock to make a tee time at Sunningdale, but first he and Roger pull apart the future of LIV and Saudi money: Neom’s burning cash, the tallest‑building curse is flashing red, and suddenly golf’s easy money era doesn’t look so easy. From there it’s London in flames — Clear Lake...
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AYNE 811 - The Confessional: Giles Morgan
In this episode of The Confessional, Roger Mitchell sits down with Giles Morgan to explore a lifetime at the sharp end of sports sponsorship — from wielding HSBC’s global checkbook to reinventing himself as the Sponsorship Doctor. Giles reflects on how his Hong Kong glory years brought lasting...
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AYNE 810 - Goal/Own Goal
Grant binge‑watches 24 hours of Masters coverage as Rory hangs on to claim back‑to‑back green jackets. From there he and Roger jump to Arsenal’s title nerves, German ultras nicking and burning flags, Infantino’s tone‑deaf World Cup cash‑grab, and why real, messy fan culture and lower‑league chaos...
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AYNE 809 - THE CAPTAINS TABLE - Alan Gilpin
In Season 3 of The Captain’s Table, the Captain is focusing on meetings the leaders of the international sports industry - to find out what their own passions for sport really are and the lessons in leadership they have learnt from working in the industry. In the first episode of the new Season…
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AYNE 808 - Goal/Own Goal
Grant drags a “punchy” Roger out of bed to unpack Tiger’s latest DUI‑style crash, meme‑ified into a “Tiger Woods bull market indicator,” and the slow, brutal death of AMC’s diamond‑hand apes. From there they rip into The Athletic’s Jimmy Savile hand‑wringing, the ignored courage of Iran’s women’s...
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AYNE 807 - The Confessional: Tal Brown
Roger Mitchell: In this episode of The Confessional, Roger Mitchell sits down with Tal Brown — Israeli-born Silicon Valley AI entrepreneur, former army intelligence tech architect, and the man behind Zone7’s groundbreaking injury-prediction platform — for a deeply human conversation about...
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AYNE 806 - Goal/Own Goal
Grant and Roger christen Roger’s new den, then use Grant’s Roadrunner “Genius Act” newsletter and his eerily on‑point drones piece to link cartoons, stablecoins and modern warfare. From NIL and the slow death of college sports to 18‑mile “marathons,” cooling breaks, Club World Cup bloat and...
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AYNE 805 - Goal/Own Goal
Grant and Roger open with a heartfelt tribute to Matty Cutler, the quietly brilliant sports‑biz pioneer who helped spark this whole project. From there they dive into shadow banking and private equity creeping through sport’s finances, before landing on the U.S. Olympic hockey furore, media echo...
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AYNE 804 - The Confessional: Caroline Rowland
In this episode of The Confessional, Roger Mitchell sits down with Caroline Rowland – one of sport’s most decorated storytellers and the creative force behind New Moon, and now archive disruptor Egoli – for a conversation about ambition, cost, and conscience. Caroline reflects on the toll of her...
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AYNE 803 - Goal/Own Goal
Grant and Roger tackle declining NBA appeal and fractured sports media rights at breakneck speed. But the real meat: Why are we tanking fan engagement everywhere? VAR theatre, empty stadiums, ticket chaos, polarized discourse—all while missing the actual product. F1 drivers in revolt and Chelsea...
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AYNE 802 - Goal/Own Goal
Grant and Roger return with Roger in peak “miserable old bastard” form, tearing into Elon Musk’s latest stunt, a so‑called 10‑sigma gold crash, and Djokovic’s absurd epic over Sinner. From gimmick “sports” like bull poker and car‑jitsu to the very real quality of women’s volleyball in Italy, they...
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AYNE 801 - Goal/Own Goal
Grant and Roger kick off 2026 in chaos—Brooks returns to the PGA, Bryson demands are eye watering, and the golf majors are now the only game that matters. Football’s imploding: VAR’s still broken, Chelsea’s new manager’s already doomed, Tottenham can’t stop losing, and the MCO’s circling the…
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AYNE 749 - Goal/Own Goal
Grant and Roger wrap the year. Festive cheer giving way to grim reality checks on sport’s grift economy. Goals celebrate Lindsey Vonn, Max Verstappen, Rory McIlroy, Thierry Henry, and Kate Abdo; Own Goals hammer FIFA, Messi, Tether’s Juventus bid, and WNBA absurdities. It all peaks in a candid...
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AYNE 748 - The Confessional: Eddie Pepperell
In this episode of The Confessional, Roger Mitchell sits down with Eddie Pepperell, one of golf’s most thoughtful and unconventional voices, for a searching and challenging conversation about the game, and his own motivations within it. Both Roger and Eddie are known for speaking the truth…
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AYNE 747 - Goal/Own Goal
Roger checks in from his childhood bedroom in Glasgow, bacon roll on standby, as he and Grant rattle through a packed slate of goals and own goals from darts, golf, football and cricket. All of it wrapped in classic GOG fashion: sharp, funny, grumpy, and quietly worried about what modern sport is...
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AYNE 746 - The Confessional: John Skipper
The legendary John Skipper enters the Confessional to address the six questions. The conversation is beautiful and controversial, and certainly not consistent-“Consistency is the hobgoblin of the small mind”. Much of the debate touches on American politics and Trump. Big Media and Big Tech are…
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AYNE 745 - Goal/Own Goal - Special Edition with Jim Kerr
In this special edition of Goal/Own Goal, host Roger Mitchell is joined by friend Jim Kerr of Simple Minds, for a compelling conversation leaning on Jim’s new book. The common history of Burchill, Kerr and Simple Minds; Our Secrets Are The Same. They explore Glasgow’s football culture and…
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AYNE 744 - Goal/Own Goal
Roger and Grant are back with a bumper Goal/Own Goal packed full of sharp takes, laughs, and the occasional existential sigh. From fiery Scottish football chaos to Fulham’s admirable fight against Arsenal, the lads cover it all — with detours into baseball brilliance, darts drama, and a cheeky...
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AYNE 743 - The Confessional: Danny Townsend
In Episode 3 of The Confessional, Roger Mitchell sits down with Danny Townsend. Ex-pro footballer, former A-League commissioner, and now CEO of Surge, Saudi Arabia’s sports investment powerhouse. A candid exploration of leadership, sacrifice, and conviction, Townsend opens up about the personal...
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AYNE 742 - Goal/Own Goal
The Ryder Cup Episode. Post-match emotions run high as The Lads dissect Europe’s stunning triumph at Bethpage. From Luke Donald’s masterclass in captaincy to Bryson’s performative patriotism, from crowd abuse to clutch putting. Plus serious chat on private equity’s wall of money hitting sport, XG...
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AYNE 741 - The Confessional: Peter Hutton
Peter Hutton joins Roger Mitchell in The Confessional for a deeply personal, honest conversation spanning 35 years in sports media. From his globe-trotting career and family trade-offs, to the philosophy of leadership, risk-taking, and loyalty. Hutton reflects on the deals that didn’t work out,...
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AYNE 740 - Goal/Own Goal
The lads this week have a right good laugh at Terry Vegetables at Glasgow Rangers, fantasy football losers, and the cuckold victims of Terence Stamp. Oh, and some serious chat on the dangers facing the EPL and the Ryder Cup. In short, it’s GOG.
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AYNE 739 - The Confessional: Elliot Richardson
Roger Mitchell sits down with insurance titan and One Football chairman Elliot Richardson for six brutally honest questions that dive into the moments that shaped his career—from apologizing for a notoriously sharp tongue to admitting the deal he regrets most, and uncovering the sliding doors…
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AYNE 738 - Goal/Own Goal
From arguing golf etiquette with Japanese samurai to Denzel Washington and the Cowboys. From green dildos, to the Rocket in Saudi. From Snoop in Swansea to Mr Benn. And somewhere in between some serious discussion on the UFC Trump Turn, and the return of English football. It’s the usual crazy...
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AYNE 737 - Goal/Own Goal
The LIV episode, as the lads debate the last 5 years in golf, and where to now. Sliding into petty and ill-informed nonsense on WNBA, Sydney Sweeney and Hulk Hogan. This is GOG.
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AYNE 736 - Goal/Own Goal
The lads discuss the good the bad and the downright ugly in sport. As always. From Nico Hulkenberg (and his wee girl), to Pat Stanton (and his dad), via penis insertions at Lazio, and shagger ball possession in the Club World Cup. The glory of Wimbledon and the struggles of the WNBA. Petty and...
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AYNE 735 - Goal/Own Goal
“Fandom isn’t being nurtured anymore. It’s being mined.” New York Time June 25. The lads today discuss in their own way the challenges of an entire industry. Golf, soccer, baseball, MotoGP, F1, NBA, WNBA.
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AYNE 734 - THE CAPTAINS PICNIC - Keith Wood
The Captain welcomes former Ireland captain and British & Irish Lion Keith Wood to his picnic table to discuss his experiences of leadership on and off the field. And we discover his favourite sporting picnic items - that are kindly provided by Fortnum & Mason. This show is sponsored by TTB Sport.
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AYNE 733 - Goal/Own Goal
On GOG this week the lads take a deep dive into the realities of football fandom. And why it makes for an impossible investment and asset class.
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AYNE 732 - Goal/Own Goal
The lads discuss the usual combination of macro finance and fan banter. Racism in the WNBA, the real meaning of “tifo”, different kinds of tennis Italians, the crumbling business model of private equity. As well the usual nonsense. It’s GOG
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Honest, amusing but above all, authentic, Roger Mitchell, Grant Williams and Giles Morgan invite guests from all corners of the sport, music and entertainment worlds to join them and discuss how the game has changed, where it might be headed and what that means for the people who matter the most; the fans
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