Women's football as Rugby Bex Smith is the guest on Other People's Money. Crux Football is her investment vehicle that is buying up women's teams, starting with Montpellier and Rosengard in France and Sweden respectively. Hear it here: The shadow of rugby In the
Good piece by Leo MacLehose of Fanzo on the smoke, mirrors and skewed economics that sit behind FIFA's fan festivals this summer. "This is not a moneymaker for this town. In fact, it's probably more of a headache than it's worth." This
We recorded a live podcast last week at MSQ Sport and Entertainment in Covent Garden, to mark the launch of At Last, Callaway Golf's new brand film, a way in to a conversation about the state of the golf business as we head in to The Masters, the
There's been a story running over the last year or so about the sharp uptake in churchgoing among Gen Z. This excited religious types, who then projected their own theories on to the data in a rush to explain why. The theory was based on YouGov research. Turn
The creator of W1A has a new thing coming out. Hugh Bonneville moves to Miami as Fifa’s director of integrity, chairing a strategic operations group, “or Sog”. From The Times: At what point does satire become redundant? Pull this thread and very quickly you get to Philip Roth country:
I enjoy talking with old pros. In this case defined as people who've worked in the industry for a long time. Some of them have great stories; eye opening, jaw dropping anecdotes from their careers spent in and around the room where it happened. My response is obvious: