the cost of concussion. we are talking about grassroots sports and talking about grassroots sports and talking about grassroots sports and talking about your experiences, whether you are a player, coach, participant, a parent, medic. your experience of concussion. it s worth reminding you that almost 400 former rugby players are currently taking legal action claiming they suffered brain injuries while playing the game. some of those guys have got dementia as well and can t even remember some of the games they played in. professional sport has already changed its rules. it is now grassroots sport following suit. that s what we are talking about, the cost of concussion. 08085 909693, and text on 85058 and get in touch via social media. doctor michael gray, neuroscientist and part of the uk acquired brain injury
understand racism is unacceptable? and that those people who transgress will be punished, because it appears, to date, people have been able to transgress with impunity. we are talking to dame about one specific cricket club for obvious reasons but your knowledge presumably and your research tells you that this could have happened anywhere across society, notjust sport, anywhere. anywhere across society, not ust sport. arneywhei anywhere across society, not ust sport, anywhere. unfortunately there is a defeat and sport, anywhere. unfortunately there is a defeat and cricket sport, anywhere. unfortunately there is a defeat and cricket is sport, anywhere. unfortunately there is a defeat and cricket is an is a defeat and cricket is an interesting example when the number of asian and caribbean people involved in amateur cricket across the country and the shocking thing is how few have actually got into the professional game and how recent their entry into the professional game has
i think it bucks the trend with so many other things in terms of sports television, highlights, highlights that really work in. i cannot think of anything else really coming out of the way that match of the day does. but i think what it does it gives the nation and we have to remember people in this country still don t have sky or bt or whatever when football is shown. so it gives them the weekly fix. and also we are addressing a much younger audience now because of catch up, the bbc iplayer and stuff like that, so i think people love football so much in this country and it s a global sport as well, but also it s nice just to watch a few minutes of every game. and it keeps you in touch of everything that s going on. we take a long time to try and get the balance of the show right, but between the amount of highlights and the amount of chat, we have to remember our audience is not sky s audience on a monday night for example or the people they want to watch a bit of football, the goals,
you know, it s very expensive, it s very expensive to watch sky sports. same with bt sport with the champions league, if they suddenly lost a champions league now, would people bother with a subscription for bt sport? and the same way with the sky sports. so tv channels pay huge, huge amounts of money for it. bbc pays a fair amount as well, not to the levels, they can t compete. a secondary question, which is some of the investors into football clubs, so if we take paris saint germain with its connections to qatar, man city with its connections to abu dhabi, the newcastle saudi arabia story that s ongoing, that money is being pushed into football partly as an investment but partly because via the media, these countries or these organisations can change their public image. are you always comfortable with that? not always, no, no. i don t know what we do about it. i think it s every club s supporter, they don t like it but then when it happens
this is not something you ve been fending off? it never crossed my mind. more broadly, do you have aspirations to go outside of sport. you will know that. i didn t have aspirations for the game show, it never crossed my mind until we spoke about it. but when i watch what you talk about social media, so for example just before i came into the studio i had a look, you talked about var in sport, about des s birthday, then about climate change and about animals in cages. and that s not unusual for you to take on a range of subjects. given your platform, i would imagine someone, i m guessing lbc or a broadcaster or a newspaper, would ve come to you and said, we like what you re doing on social media, can we build this into something? they have advanced at times, yeah. but i m wary of that. who has come to talk to you? i think it s unfairfor me