The Game Changers

Game On: Chapter 10 - Ready For The Board Game

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Episode notes

‘The leadership and management of football, one of the most diverse games on the planet, is still controlled, fundamentally, by white men’. Dame Heather Rabbatts, 2020

 It’s generally accepted that organisations led by diverse boards are more successful, have better governance and make better decisions. Yet for many sports not much has changed from the 1800s when organised sport was first developed – organised for men, by men.

This chapter explores what’s happening in the running of global sport. After years of governance scandals at major sports organisations including FIFA, the FA, the IOC, the IAAF and the ICC are we finally seeing improved gender balance at the very top, or is the shift taking too long?

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Produced by Sam Walker, What Goes On Media

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