Unofficial Partner Podcast

Nov 05 2024 435 ep. 49 mins 76
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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.

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UP435 Dame Tracey Crouch: The Budget, Blame and the Football Regulator

Nov 05 2024 61 mins  
Dame Tracey Elizabeth Anne Crouch DBE (born 24 July 1975) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chatham and Aylesford from 2010 to 2024. Crouch was appointed as Minister for Sport, Civil Society and Loneliness in 2017, but resigned in 2018 due to a delay over the introduction of reduced limits on the stakes of fixed odds betting

UP434 Expected Goals Takeover

Nov 01 2024 48 mins  
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 of women's football at Manchester United and lists Brighton and Hove Albion, Nottingham Forest and UEFA on an extensive resume.Expected Goals is pub

UP433 The Bundle - NFL and FIFA global ambitions; The Gary Lineker Question

Oct 29 2024 58 mins  
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 F1, World Rugby and ESPN International. This week’s podcast is sponsored by We Are Sweet - helping you tell compelling stories in-the-momen

UP432 The Big Idea - And1 Mixtapes, Joga Bonito and CRTZ

Oct 22 2024 45 mins  
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 related creative campaigns.This week it's Gundeep Anand in the hot seat.Gundeep founded The Last Stand and is a docu-style Director & Photographer whose work is influenced by his background as an ex-youth w

UP431 Gareth Balch on why Two Circles has bought KORE

Oct 18 2024 41 mins  
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 Circles is buying the company from Serent Capital, the private equity firm that bought Kore in 2018. Earlier this year, Two Circles themselves sold

UP430 Other People's Money: How to Sell (or Buy) a Sports Business

Oct 15 2024 52 mins  
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 Latitude Partners, who has worked on more than 200 company acquisitions for clients across both buy and sell side of investment deals in sectors ranging from technology and telecom

UP429 The 3: The Melancholic Leaving Them Wanting More (Question Mark) Episode

Oct 11 2024 48 mins  
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 Friday morning. The 3 may return, and it might not.This week Richard Gillis, David Cushnan and James Emmett pick these three stories:Will the cool kids be wearing

UP428 The Squeezed Middle - Frenemies: Where Next For The NGB Model?

Oct 08 2024 43 mins  
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, based on a survey of sports CEOs, carried out by PTI. You can download the report, for free, at ptidigitalgroup.comJoining Richard are Ben

UP427 Lalit Modi Exclusive: “The Hundred is a non-starter”

Oct 06 2024 38 mins  
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 explains exclusively to Unofficial Partner why: “Based on the information memorandum a 100% stake in a team would be between £5m and

UP426 The 3: The Who Looks Good in Arsenal Streetwear Episode

Oct 04 2024 50 mins  
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 International Masters LeagueThis podcast is sponsored by Leaders in Sport - Get 15% off Summit passesLeaders in Sport connects the most influential people a