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Just incase you haven't noticed, it's podcast month on 1Xtra and this week Rio Ferdinand hosts a 20 minute showcase of material from his new record label: White Chalk Music (check the 1Xtra podcast here) but this in itself got me thinking, do sports stars have a place in the music business?

Usually sports stars pop up in the music biz as artists - over here both Andy Cole and Ian Wright had a go at being rappers back in the day and flopped really hard (and were both TERRIBLE). In the US, Basketball and NFL stars are at it all the time, with varying degrees of success; but on the whole, they're also terrible!

But they could be good for scenes such as ours, not as rappers but rather as record label owners. There are few people in the country with as much disposable income as a Premiership footballer which could mean decent amounts of cash being injected into the scene of we had more footballer owned indies like White Chalk. Listening to the Podcast, Rio speaks passionately about his love of music and his support of the artists on his rosta - and the artists seem quite good! There are still a limited number of decent outlets for quality Black music and as I was saying a few posts ago, lots of good artists and music. If a few more Premiership ballers spent their Β£75k a week spending fund on a decently staffed, well managed label, would this be a bad thing?

What do you think? Should we encourage more footballer music moguls or do we not need them?