LIVE NOW: The Unofficial Review of 2022

Dec 20, 2022

A quick note to say Happy Christmas from us at UP.

Thanks for listening, reading and contributing to the sports business conversation in 2022.

We’ve got some great new stuff lined up for 2023, some of which you may even enjoy.

But before then…two things.

How closely were you following the sports biz this year?

Press the button and take the test.

We got some smart people together, and Sean came too.

Hear the resulting conversation here, our final pod of the year.

Highlights - Click to jump in.

1:58 What was Qatar really like?

3:26 ‘Won’t anyone think of AB InBev?’

8:08 The long tail of that Infantino speech

13:40 What’s the point of major events?

19:31 The Euro legacy

30:43 ‘Is this on the first ten agenda items for Richard Arnold? I bet it isn’t’.

34:05 WSL as IPL or Premiership Rugby?

38:39 Messi, Ronaldo, Alcarez, Raducanu and the joy of new eras.

43:27 Would you invest in tennis?

54:31 The whiteness of the Lionesses

56:53 NFTs, crypto and the relentless pursuit of new and shiny

1:06:09 ‘I am one of those people who said I told you so, because I fucking told you so’

1:10:06 The weird cult of Drive to Survive

Thanks for listening - see you in ‘23…