The Long Play
Jordan MacauleySmart takes on the business of sport.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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🎲 A Football Club Spent €1m on Kalshi to Hedge Relegation
I made this short-form video a few days ago:
In the caption itself I said don’t be surprised if you see some player movement at Stamford Bridge this summer. Less than two days later, this tweet appeared on my timeline:
Even though I told...
⚽️ The Financial Winners and Losers of the Football Season
The last few weeks have been significant for the TLP platform.
There are now more than 158,000 of you watching on YouTube, 5,000 people have subscribed in the last four weeks.
We recently crossed 20,000 followers on Instagram.
And on Tue...
🏆 Why are World Cup Tickets so Freaking Expensive?
Last week was a pretty important week for The Long Play.
On Monday May 25th I released the first episode of Off The Pitch, a new interview series focused on the business empires of some of the most successful people in sport.
Episode one...
🎤 The Next Chapter Of The Long Play Starts Here
A year ago, I made a video about Eddie Hearn and Matchroom Boxing.
That video was called “How Matchroom Make So Much Money”
A few days after releasing this video, I got an email from a producer at Box to Box Productions.
If you’ve watche...
🎾 Tennis Players Think They Are Underpaid. Are they?
The biggest stars in tennis are openly discussing the possibility of boycotting the four tennis Grand Slams.
Yes, boycotting the biggest tournaments in the world!
That sounds dramatic.
But underneath the headlines sits a surprisingly com...
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