E34: The Football Business Episode

This week’s guests are Mark Catlin and Kevin Rye. Former Bury director and Spanish telecommunications business leader Mark Catlin is chief executive of Portsmouth football club, and a recent winner of the Football Business Awards CEO of the Year and a judge at this year’s event. We talk to Mark about who assisted fans in the saving the club from administration in 2012, the acquisition of the club by supporters and the consequent takeover by former Disney chief Michael Eisner in 2017. Our othe...