Foxtel Media’s Nev Hasan had woken up at 5am on the day of this interview to watch his football team, Tottenham, thrash Newcastle 5-1 in the Premier League.
Hasan, raised in North London, says football was, and remains, a big part of his life.
“It’s the core thing I used to play as a kid,” Hasan says. “I also got into rugby union and enjoyed playing that as well but my passion was always football. Like every kid, if I could have been a football player I would have.”
Instead, Hasan followed a career in the Australian media industry, first joining in 2006 and going on to become executive director of agency sales at Foxtel Media.
Hasan spent much of his childhood in Tottenham before moving to Southgate and attending Ashmole Academy. Once he finished school, he moved to Manchester to attend Manchester Metropolitan University where he studied business management for three years.
“University at Manchester was brilliant because it was a change from living at home and allowed me to be independent for the first time,” he says.
