Richard Flash
UCFB Manchester
Senior Lecturer
Sports Business and Management
Richard Flash teaches football business and sports management. As a young professional footballer he played alongside with David Beckham for Manchester United. Retiring with a knee fracture, he worked as a business manager for Goals Soccer Centres. He gained his Masters and PGCE qualifications before joining UCFB in our first year. His research focuses on the racism faced by the Premier League’s Black footballers, and he is a research partner of football charity Show Racism the Red Card.
Area of expertise
- Business management
- Marketing management
- Historian of African and Caribbean footballers in England
Industry expertise
- Business and operational management of sports facilities
- The business of football
- Sports management
- Sociology of sport.
- Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)
- Degree in Business Administration (MA Hons)
- Degree in Business and Leisure Management (BA Hons)
- Member of the British Society of Sports History
- Member of the Society for Caribbean Studies
- Member of the Professional Footballers Association
- Industry engagement articles are published by Show Racism the Red Card
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