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Sports Advertising! Jews! And a Pounamu Magen David!

Messy Times
Messy Times
Episode • Feb 7, 2024 • 1h 20m

Find out why Stephen Fry’s Alternative Christmas Message landed so well this year, on a channel opposite King Charles’s chat to the Kingdom.

Richard Bermitz has a long and storied career in UK sport advertising. Join us for a fascinating conversation about the history of the business of sport in the UK and then Europe more broadly.

In addition to getting a crash course in the dynamics of sporting clubs, fan loyalty and the commercial reality underpinning your favourite teams, Messy Times fans searching for current affairs insights are in luck!

Richard is a member of the UK's Jewish community. We discuss how the evil events perpetrated by the Gazan Government on 7 October 2023 have impacted communities across the UK, Europe and the US.