The 2025 Wrap UP
The year in podcasts, people, ideas and stories.
Welcome to the final Thursday newsletter of 2025, so a chance to look back at what worked, what didn’t, what we thought was going to happen vs what actually happened.
This time last year I asked 17 sports industry bigwigs* and got 35 trends to watch for ‘25.
Hear how these predictions stood up in the resulting podcast from January.
*Bigwigs = They were available at short notice
What we said in 2025
This year we published 77 podcasts.
Here are the ten most popular in order:
What we thought
Here are the 6 most popular Unofficial Partner Newsletters of 2025:
Happy Christmas from Richard, Sean and what we call the broader Unofficial Partner family.
You’ll see and hear us in 2026…whether you want to or not.

