Unofficial Partner Podcast
Unofficial Partner is the leading podcast for the business of sport. Our guests are a who's who of the international sports industry talking about the big issues.
Podcasting since 2019 • 520 episodes
Unofficial Partner Podcast
Latest Episodes
UP520: Olympic Provocateur: Michael Payne on Sport Politics, from Dassler to Trump
Olympic marketing pioneer Michael Payne discusses his book Fast Tracks and Dark Deals, exploring how sport became business through the lens of legendary figures like Horst Dassler, Bernie Ecclestone and Mark McCormack. He challenges fe...
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UP519 Live at Sportradar Connect: Soccer Edition, featuring Jamie Carragher
This episode was recorded at the recent Sportradar Connect: Soccer Edition event at the London Stadium in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The podcast divides is in two parts. First is an onstage conversation on the evolut...
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UP518 Inside Edge: Harry Brook, George Pyne and the cricket agent business
Inside Edge is our series on the business of cricket, presented with co-host Mike Jakeman. Our guest is Phil Weston, head of cricket at TGI Sport, the agency owned jointly by George Pyne's Bruin Sports Capital and Quadrant Private E...
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UP517 The Mark Oliver Heatmap: Global sport's investment hotspots
Mark Oliver was the BBC's first head of strategy before creating Oliver and Ohlbaum in 1995, which remains one of the most influential media advisory boutiques in the market, with clients ranging from sports leagues and federations to media com...
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UP516 Smart Recruitment: The Brentford Model, in partnership with Indeed
The story of Brentford is one of the most interesting and quoted case studies in European football over the last decade. The west London club been transformed on and off the pitch, from being saved from extinction by its own fans to a new era u...
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