Rasmus Ankersen

I was telling you, I write a weekly article and this paper was so timely because I was writing about this idea.

There was a brilliant guest I had on the show from Denmark, a guy called Rasmus Ankersen, and he set up the Football Academy for Denmark.

And he was one of the founding members of that.

But there was a player, and I think he was 15 at the time, and they had a certain amount of spots in this academy, but there was one free.

So I mentioned about Andy Grove and the weeds and the seeds, and he famously said, and you quote him in Strategy is Destiny, that not all paradigm shifts are paradigm shifts.

I love that because in there is the real challenge.

That's why I was talking about Rasmus Ankersen earlier on.

It's so difficult to see potential.

He, he heads up the recruitment.

Originally, you'll remember there was sort of co-sporting directors, Phil Giles and Rasmus Ankersen, who later went on to Southampton and elsewhere.

He was full of ideas, Rasmus Ankersen.

Lee Dykes came in with real recruitment experience, and, and that has been the real, um, appointment, I think that's helped kickstart what you talk about there.

And thank you, Emma, for going through the list of players because I've lost count of them now.

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OK, Kevin, I want to start with you, actually, because the first bit of news that I came across this week was Sport Republic CEO Rasmus Ankersen has resigned from his director role.

Well, I mean, it doesn't really change anything, does it? Because he's...

Well, we've not seen him for some time and he took himself away from parations ages ago.

Yeah, the way Matsuki played previously and in this match, I think vindicated that choice.

And the way Fellows played, maybe also vindicated that choice.

But yeah, unlike Rasmus Ankersen says, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Unfortunately, yeah, we were looking a bit broken today.