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EP 024 · 9 Feb 2026 · 60m

Tomorrow's World with Richard Hawkins

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EP 024 · 9 Feb 2026 · 60m

Tomorrow's World with Richard Hawkins

A Tomorrow's World conversation with Richard Hawkins.

EP 024·60m
Tomorrow's WorldDo Radio

The conversation

What we talked about.

Richard Hawkins talks about sports science, football, measurement and the long evolution of technology inside elite teams. The conversation explores how an industry moved from almost no support staff to GPS, fatigue monitoring, data rooms and a future where performance knowledge could become both powerful and unsettling.

This episode explores:

  • How did sports science become a serious part of professional football?
  • What can clubs now measure that would have been impossible thirty years ago?
  • Can data tell a coach when a player is tired before the player says it?
  • Where is the line between useful monitoring and surveillance?
  • Could future profiling close doors for talented athletes before they get a chance?
  • How do teams use technology without losing the judgement that sport still depends on?
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