Sport vs Money with Simon Jordan
‘Sport vs Money’ tells the inside story of the collision between football and business. Across four episodes, Jordan - the Premier League’s youngest-ever owner - travels the globe to explore how decisions made by football’s top executives in the early 1990s set in motion a transformation that has turned the world’s most beloved sport into a vast entertainment industry.
From London to Miami, Turin to New York, Jordan meets the people who have driven and defined this shift - including club owners, CEOs, FIFA executives, agents and former players - to uncover how community-rooted clubs became billion-dollar assets, how players became global brands, and how the game's future is being shaped behind closed doors.
Featured contributors include Arsene Wenger (FIFA), the man behind the revamped Club World Cup, and Andrea Agnelli (ex-Juventus), one of the architects of the controversial Super League proposal, as well as David Gill (Manchester United), Daniel Levy (Tottenham Hotspur), Freddie Ljungberg (Arsenal & Seattle Sounders), Rick Parry (Premier League), Lord Sugar (Tottenham Hotspur), and executives from Inter Miami, MLS, NFL and more
With unprecedented access and sharp insight, Sport vs Money explores the high-stakes collision between sport and commerce - and asks: who really owns the game now?
Genres
Sport, Documentary
Duration
4 x 47'
Language
English
Contributor
Simon Jordan, Arsene Wenger, Andrea Agnelli, David Gill, Daniel Levy, Freddie Ljungberg, Rick Parry, Lord Sugar
Production Company
Viaplay Sport
Producer
Grant Best, Hugh Sleight
The series is produced by Grant Best, whose credits include the BAFTA-winning Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum & Dad (2017), Ronaldo’s World Cup story The Phenomenon (2022), and La Guerra Civil (2022), which premiered at Sundance. The series is executive produced by Hugh Sleight, whose credits include The Phenomenon, Maradona: The Fall, Green Lions, Canelo: The Greatest Athlete You’ve Never Seen, and The Making of Anthony Joshua.