Unofficial Partner Podcast

Updated: 05 Sep 2025 • 500 episodes
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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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Richard is joined by David Cushnan and James Emmett of Leaders.  Three stories from this week in the sports business. What happened, why do we care and where"s it going? What does McLaren F1"s valuation say about F1? Who is David "Dave" Hopkinson and what"s the job of Premier League CEO today? What"s the role of the Ry

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Today"s guest Paul Caine is the President of OnLocation, the premium experiential hospitality division of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO). Under his leadership, OnLocation has become the global leader in sports and entertainment hospitality, managing premium experiences for over 150 rightsholders including the NFL, NCAA

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 Today we are talking Other People"s Money, this is our regular series on sports finance with regular co-host Matt Rogan, who was of course one of the Co-Founders of Two Circles.  Today"s guest is a special one is Ed McBride, who is Managing Director of UK Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank, one of the City"s most pro

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As co-founder of Perform and DAZN, Simon Denyer has spent the last twenty years at the intersection of sport, media, and technology. Last week he brokered an innovative new relationship between La Liga and Disney+ via his new company PEAK Sports Media.  This is a conversation about the big picture of sport"s relationsh

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 This is an episode of Inside Edge, our series on the cricket business with regular co-host Mike Jakeman. Today"s guest is Peter Hutton, and nobody knows more about the relationship between television and cricket than Peter Hutton. Strap yourselves in, this is a masterclass. This episode of the Unofficial Partner podca

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Every shirt tells a story.  Joey D"Urso, an award-winning journalist from The Times and formerly of The Athletic, joins UP to discuss his new book: More Than A Shirt: How Football Shirts Explain Global Politics, Money and Power. • How the Gazprom sponsorship on FC Schalke 04"s shirts reflects Russia"s geopolitical stra

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