The High Performance Podcast

Manchester United look set to have a new manager and he doesn’t arrive alone. Mauricio Pochettino and his assistant Jesús Pérez have worked side by side since Espanyol, through Southampton, Tottenham, Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and the USA. Earlier this year they sat down with Jake and Damian together. It’s as close as you’ll get to sitting in their staff room before they w...

On this weeks episode Jake and Damian mark Movember by taking on one of the biggest threats to men’s health: loneliness.

We recently interviewed Kevin Sinfield about his relationship with Rob Burrow which inspired this week’s question: what does it really take to be a better mate? The answer starts with the small things you do for someone and ends with the things ...

The more outrage the internet creates, the more money platforms make. But what happens to the people caught in that cycle? Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Jon Ronson joins Jake and Damian to examine how algorithms reward conflict, push creators towards increasingly extreme content and punish those who choose nuance.

Through the story of a creator w...

Jenson Button won six of the first seven races of 2009, then nearly talked himself out of a world title. This is Jenson at his most candid about what really goes on behind the visor.

Originally released in 2021, he takes us back to the start: parents who split when he was seven, a dad who spent every penny in his account on a go-kart, and a mum who tried to stop h...

Released by Arsenal, shipped out on four loans, and described by his own academy as the “runt of the litter”, Harry Kane was never the obvious one. So how did he become the first Englishman since Michael Owen to win the Ballon d’Or? Mauricio Pochettino, Jesús Pérez, Gareth Southgate, Alex Inglethorpe, Geir Jordet, Kieran Trippier, Justin Cochrane and Andy Cole, who all saw hi...