Creative Loop Podcast

  Find out how one Executive Producer/ Director started his career in sports, what a director does, how he makes difficult decisions, and what his role will be during the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Grant Philips is a live OB director with a vast array of credits and has been at every FIFA World CupTM since 2002. He has directed European Finals for UEFA, was a football director at the London Olympics 2012 and will direct the hockey competition at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Domestically, he has directed over 100 matches a season for well over a decade in the English Premier League, the FA Cup, UEFA Champions League, Europa League, the SPFL and women’s football for Sky Sports, BBC, ITV, Setanta, Channel Five and ESPN. He is presently an Executive Producer/Director for BT Sport and is directing NBC’s onsite operation for the English Premier League this season. Brazil will be his first FIFA World CupTM as a FIFA Match Director of the host feed.