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.
Episodes
435 episodes
UP435 Dame Tracey Crouch: The Budget, Blame and the Football Regulator
Dame Tracey Elizabeth Anne Crouch DBE (born 24 July 1975) is a British Conserva...
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UP434 Expected Goals Takeover
A special bonus episode of Expected Goals, Unofficial Partner's sister podcast on the women's football business, with co-hosts Maggie Murphy and Matt Cutler. Joining them is Polly Bancroft, CEO of Grimsby Town FC, who was formerly head...
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UP433 The Bundle - NFL and FIFA global ambitions; The Gary Lineker Question
Welcome to The Bundle, our regular series on the sports media and streaming marketplace with co-hosts Yannick Ramcke, General Manager of OTT at the streaming service OneFootball and Murray Barnett, founder of 26West Consulting and formerly of F...
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UP432 The Big Idea - And1 Mixtapes, Joga Bonito and CRTZ
The Big Idea is our regular series on creativity, with co-host award winning consulting Creative Director Simon Moore.We ask a guest to bring three of their favourite sports...
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UP431 Gareth Balch on why Two Circles has bought KORE
Fresh from an excellent Leaders Summit at Twickenham, or should we say Allianz Stadium, is a conversation with Gareth Balch, founder and CEO of Two Circles agency about the agreement to buy KORE Software, a deal announced this week.Two C...
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UP430 Other People's Money: How to Sell (or Buy) a Sports Business
Other People's Money is our regular series on sports investment, with co-host Matt Rogan, co-founder of Two Circles.Today we get in to the minutiae of deal making, with Steve Hacking, managing partner at
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UP429 The 3: The Melancholic Leaving Them Wanting More (Question Mark) Episode
The 3 is a failed experiment in podcast format innovation. The 3 is a creative collaboration between Unofficial Partner and Leaders in Sport. The 3 picks three stories from the sports business week and dissects them on a Frida...
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UP428 The Squeezed Middle - Frenemies: Where Next For The NGB Model?
This is a follow up to our popular series of last year, The Squeezed Middle, which was a collaboration with PTI Digital, the independent strategy and technology consultancy. This episode looks in to a new report, The Sports Leadership Benchmark...
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UP427 Lalit Modi Exclusive: “The Hundred is a non-starter”
The ECB is currently seeking investors for The Hundred franchises, the short form cricket competition and are selling a 49% stake that values them at up to £150m each. Today’s guest Lalit Modi disagrees. The founder of the Indian Premier League...
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UP426 The 3: The Who Looks Good in Arsenal Streetwear Episode
Three stories, three opinions, ten minutes (50minutes)What's in a name? FIFA's Club World Cup stadia naming snafuWhat is streetwear? The deeper meaning of Arsenal's style collabHow old is too old? Sportfive and Tendulkar launch ...
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UP425 The Bundle Live - The StreamAMG Direct-to-Fan Playbook Event @ Amazon
This is a live episode recorded at StreamAMG's excellent Direct-to-Fan Playbook event, held at Amazon's Liverpool Street headquarters in London. A big thank you goes to the team at StreamAMG for inviting us along, we learnt loads.<...
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UP424 Expected Goals - Introducing the brand new podcast on the business of women's football
Today, we're launching a brand new show called Expected Goals, hosted by Matt Cutler and Maggie Murphy. Together Matt and Maggie will explore the business of women's football.
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UP423 Wedge Issues Live @ The BMW PGA Championship
Wedge Issues is Unofficial Partner's business of golf series, where we take some of the big trends from across sport and apply them to golf.This is a special live episode recorded in the boardroom of the DP World Tour's headquarters at T...
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UP422 The 3 - The Stephen Hawking Episode
The 3 stories are:1. The race for the IOC big job - aka Bach’s overtures (this doesn’t make any sense but makes me sound like I kno...
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UP421 Conversations About Women's Health That Men Avoid Having
Earlier this year, The Football Association has became the first national governing body to mandate training on female health, with Women’s Super League and Championship clubs benefitting from a new league-wide support plan covering pregnancy, ...
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UP420 The 3: The Big Swinging Dick Episode
The journey to creating a ten minute podcast is not a linear one. That's fancy talk for saying that rather than cut last week's half hour episode, this one went one for 45 minutes. Three stories:James Emmett reports from IMG's brea...
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UP419 Warming Up: The Planet Can't Afford Sport's Big Event Growth Plan
Madeleine Orr is a leading sport ecologist and professor at the University of Toronto. A Forbes 30 under 30 inductee, she is the founder and co-director of The Sport Ecology Group, who consult on international climate issues for sports organiza...
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UP418 Introducing The 3: The Difficult First Episode
We tried to make a short form ten minute podcast and failed. It's supposed to be three stories in ten minutes. Think of this as a work-in-progress. UP's Richard Gillis is joined by James Emmett and David Cushnan from ...
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UP417 Wedge Issues - Rick Shiels Exclusive
For millions of people, Rick Shiels' YouTube channel is how we watch golf in 2024.Shiels is our very special guest today. He started by uploading golf tips to YouTube 12 years ago to attract people to the Trafford Golf Centre in Manches...
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UP416 Other People's Money: Minority Stakes, Gary Neville and American v Arab Investor Cliches
Other People's Money is our regular series on sports investment, with regular co-host Matt Rogan, co-founder of Two Circles. Our guests today are Jonathan Lenson and Sam Johnson, CEO and head of sport respectively at Milltown Partners,...
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UP415 The Bundle - Do you know your ENPs from your LMRs?
NBA v TNT – Exclusive Negotiating Periods and Last Matching Rights are central to the big row over NBA rights. But how they work and why does everyone hate them?Click here to re...
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UP414 Wedge Issues: Callaway boss on Xander, YouTubers and why the LIV split dilutes golf’s product
Ben Sharpe, one of the most influential people in the golf business, as Managing Director & President of Callaway Golf across Europe, Middle East and Asia. Callaway is the largest manufacturer of golf equipment in the world and as such is a...
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UP413 Paris 2024 Digital Debrief - Which brands popped, and why?
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are over, the medals have been won and lost.And now the sports business conversation shifts to who won the other game, played between some of the biggest companies in the world, each seeking to stand out in the ...
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UP412 Racists, riots and sport's Twitter exodus
“As soon as the Southport murders happened, the way Muslims specifically were targeted has made you question again whether we do belong, whether deep down in the end, we're always having to justify our existence,” says Azeem Rafiq, the former p...
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UP411 UP US: The North American Sports Business in 3 Stories
We go deep in to the North American market today with Daniel Kaplan, one of the very best reporters covering the US sports business beat. I’ve known Daniel for over twenty years, first when he covered tennis and the NFL for SportsBusiness Journ...
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