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Talking to Martin Bayfield for the latest Unofficial Partner podcast was always going to be a laugh. That’s why we wanted him on. But the...
- Sep 4, 2019
- 3 min
The data’s in, and how the media covers women's sport IS changing
It's taken too long, but analysis of female representation across mainstream media hints at progress. By Chris Hurst It was a summer that...
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- Sep 3, 2019
- 9 min
5 key things Bidstack got from Gamescom
The Bidstack team has just spent last week in Cologne for Europe’s biggest gaming event - Gamescom. Here, their CMO, Simon Gosling, takes...
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- Aug 29, 2019
- 1 min
Blessed is the tea lady
Nissan is finding it quite hard to make the ‘power within’ position interesting. This thought came to mind when the car brand's cricket...
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- Aug 20, 2019
- 2 min
5 Things Jackie Fast learnt about pay gaps at her first Tortoise ThinkIn
Tortoise’s tagline is ‘slow news’ the response to fast journalism – and I like what they are doing. A lot. As part of this revolutionary...
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- Aug 14, 2019
- 2 min
'We're about to let it happen again'
Dame Heather Rabbatts mentioned the late Cyrille Regis on this week’s podcast, referring to the former England player as one of ‘the lost...
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- Aug 13, 2019
- 6 min
6 things to say when asked about The Athletic
Daniel Ayers digs in to the big launch everyone's talking about The last few weeks have seen plenty of talk in sports media about the UK...
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- Jul 19, 2019
- 1 min
No Bad Ideas In A Brainstorm: The Paddy Pivot...
(Or, NBIIAB as the hipsters will be soon calling this section of the Unofficial Partner site, where we attempt to deconstruct campaign...
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- Jul 13, 2019
- 4 min
Simon Banoub is speechless in Seattle
We paid* @Banouby to follow the nerds to the Sports Analytics Conference (*we didn't pay him) I’ve been knocking around the sports data...
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- Jun 26, 2019
- 3 min
At home with Charlie Sale
Over a thirty year career in sports news, Charlie Sale was the most read and feared diarist in the business, and his Sports Agenda column...
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- Jun 20, 2019
- 3 min
6 bits on esports that went to the email inbox of everyone else you know
The new pod sees three millennials discussing esports. They were: Jack Stewart, the first specialist esports reporter for a UK national...
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- Jun 15, 2019
- 3 min
"The fan zone was like The Hunger Games for middle aged blokes"
I’ve been a Spurs season ticket holder since the late 1990s, so I know a thing or two about suffering. But the experience of being a fan...
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- Jun 13, 2019
- 1 min
La Liga used 'Shazam for illegal feeds'
In sports tech news, La Liga has been using its app to follow footy fans around to see where they’re watching illegal streams. I can't...
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- Jun 12, 2019
- 6 min
"You're not going to die from this"
For Nick Keller, 2019 was supposed to be about the joyous celebration of new life. But the reality was far scarier. Read the sports...
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- Jun 9, 2019
- 3 min
It may not be possible to un-see Infantino's corner
I've become slightly obsessed with this clip of FIFA's head man, posted on Twitter by @SmnLlyd5. Have a look for yourself. I'm fascinated...
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- May 22, 2019
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Is sport really missing out on £14billion?
That Two Circles report certainly landed PR-wise, to the extent it made it on to Steve Wright in the Afternoon on Radio 2 as a factoid....
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- May 9, 2019
- 1 min
Cricket fans want faster horses
A side bet. Cricket fans won't want to watch The Hundred, right up until they do. Very few cricket fans, me included, wanted Twenty20 in...
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- Apr 25, 2019
- 2 min
Why I love awards
We’re so lucky to work in an industry important enough to justify two award shows a week #Blessed. Yet of course, there are dissenters....
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