[Football] Gareth Bale calls on governing bodies to protect player welfare

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With soaring inflation across the world perhaps people’s priorities may change and drive down the demand for Sky which in turn would impact on its ability to fund the ridiculous amount of money paid to sports. If that in turn drives down the number of competitions and games, then I personally would welcome it. If that reduces the quality of the game in the U.K. I don’t care. I just want a team to support and don’t give a monkey’s what division the are in, so long as it’s affordable.

I hear what you are saying but from what I can see, there is only one bloated competition and that's the Champions League. The drive to get more games into that competition has affected every other one.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Did the money you make just magically appear. When someone gains there will be someone that loses out.

No, not all trading is zero sum. The customers locked in their purchase or sale prices and I had a position to trade around. I had to make judgements about liquidity, demand and supply of different instruments and future price direction. Sometimes I warehoused risk for months. There were occasions when I made money and others when I lost but the customer always had what they wanted ie a fixed price hedge for their physical position so no more price risk. It’s a bit off topic but you did ask.