UCFB Future Sport 2018
UCFB is delighted to present Future Sport – its inaugural magazine packed full of highlights of UCFB graduates in the workplace and exclusive interviews with the biggest names in sport. The issue is led by England manager Gareth Southgate, who with a World Cup just around the corner gave us his thoughts on leadership and the importance of education for a modern day coach. Sky Sports’ Hayley McQueen, Tottenham’s Mauricio Pochettino and Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers also feature. UCFB graduates feature heavily throughout the issue, showcasing their skills and talent in the workplace at clubs and organisations including The Football Association, Watford FC, Sky Sports and the Evening Standard. Future Sport also takes an in-depth look at London’s relationship with the NFL, and compares the promotion of big boxing events and the contrasting promotional styles of former heavy-weight world champions Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye.
UCFB is delighted to present Future Sport – its inaugural magazine packed full of highlights of UCFB graduates in the workplace and exclusive interviews with the biggest names in sport.
The issue is led by England manager Gareth Southgate, who with a World Cup just around the corner gave us his thoughts on leadership and the importance of education for a modern day coach. Sky Sports’ Hayley McQueen, Tottenham’s Mauricio Pochettino and Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers also feature.
UCFB graduates feature heavily throughout the issue, showcasing their skills and talent in the workplace at clubs and organisations including The Football Association, Watford FC, Sky Sports and the Evening Standard.
Future Sport also takes an in-depth look at London’s relationship with the NFL, and compares the promotion of big boxing events and the contrasting promotional styles of former heavy-weight world champions Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye.
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JAMIE CARRAGHER
STUDENT SUCCESS
Conor Creamer, UCFB graduate and reporter at Sky Sports
Conor’s dream one-two with UCFB and Sky Sports
UCFB hosts a number of unique media programmes to reflect the ever changing multimedia world. Such a
programme helped Conor on his way to a job with the nation’s most popular sport website…
Online: Conor now works as a reporter for Sky Sports
“UCFB OFFERED ME THE
PERFECT EXPERIENCE
TO HELP BOOST MY
CONFIDENCE AND
UNDERSTANDING
OF THE JOURNALISM
WORLD”
There can be no denying that Sky Sports has changed
the way fans watch sport forever.
Thousands of football, rugby, cricket and NFL fixtures
are beamed into living rooms around the country every
year in high definition, with some of the most talented
names in punditry analysing the games in fine detail.
But it’s Sky Sports’ journalistic efforts that have also
made others raise the bar. First came Sky Sports News,
the UK’s first dedicated rolling sport news service, in
1998. Now Sky Sports are offering more and more from
their digital news service through their website and
mobile apps.
At the core of each report is a focus on good
journalism. Just one look at any reporter role
advertised on Sky Sports’ careers website will show an
applicant must possess the necessary qualifications to
work for the company. UCFB alumnus Conor Creamer
came to the institution to study media and journalism,
and he now spends his days engrossed in his favourite
interest – sport.
“I’ve always been a massive sport fan,” he said. “Reading
and watching entertaining sport content is something
I’ve always enjoyed doing.” For an institution like Sky, only
the best education will do for their staff.
“UCFB offered me the perfect experience to help boost
my confidence and understanding of the journalism
world,” Conor said. “I’ve long believed that in order to
maximise your potential and become the best in your
chosen field, it is crucial that you surround yourselves
with the industry’s best and UCFB offers precisely that.”
of the competitiveness from someone else – say another
player or another team – and you can’t handle that, then
you’re probably in the wrong industry. I think if you have
the mental strength to handle that you will be OK.
What are your thoughts on opportunities available
at UCFB?
I think what UCFB does is fantastic for the students. There
are so many strands to the game now, it’s just becoming
bigger and better. The fact you have something like UCFB
and the facilities – that’s the future of the game now.
It was always felt in the past that it was just the players
and the manager, but now there’s so much more with
the likes of sports science, the business side of it and the
scouting departments behind the scenes at the clubs.
There’s a lot of jobs to go round so I hope UCFB students
will have a prosperous career in the game.
Meet: Carragher’s industry stories were a firm favourite with
UCFB students
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