2009 was ‘game of two halves’: Sir Martin Sorrell

WPP chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell used a well-worn football analogy to describe his company’s performance in 2009 before forecasting a return to growth in the second quarter this year. Talking to global business broadcaster CNBC, Sorrell said last year had been “a game of two halves” for WPP.Sorrell said, “In the first half of the year I think we were staring into the abyss. In the second half we certainly saw things becoming less worse.”