Recent posts in my Football Category
July 12, 2010
Pundits and predictions...the World Cup according to the English press
To celebrate the end of the World Cup, I've made a short video which shows English newspaper front pages going from declaring that England had an "E.A.S.Y." draw, to saying that the players have let their country down. Along the way, it seems like a psychic octopus was outperforming the nation's football pundits. And none of them offered to resign either...
February 27, 2010
The Sun relying on 'copyright thieves' Google and Yahoo! for their Wrightys XI campaign
Despite Murdoch's stance that search engines steal his newspaper's content, The Sun are using search keywords as the main marketing thrust for their 2010 FIFA World Cup competition.
February 1, 2010
Page Three plugs 3D
The Sun was plugging Sky's experimental live football 3D service - even on Page Three!
January 29, 2010
African Cup of Nations online coverage review: Part 4 - British and American online newspapers
January 28, 2010
African Cup of Nations online coverage review: Part 3 - African newspapers
January 27, 2010
African Cup of Nations online coverage review: Part 2 - African newspapers
In the second part of this series looking at coverage of the 2010 African Cup of Nations, I have reviews of online news sources from four of the nations taking part: Angola, Algeria, Cameroon and Egypt.
January 26, 2010
African Cup of Nations online coverage review: Part 1 - UK
During the course of this year's African Cup of Nations tournament in Angola, I've been reviewing news coverage in the UK and in Africa itself. In the first part of this series, I look at how, before a ball was kicked, the terrorist attack on the Togo team made print front pages in the UK.
January 5, 2010
Evening Standard fails African Cup Of Nations geography test
Whilst the Evening Standard gets confused about whether the African Cup Of Nations is being held in Angola or Ghana, The Guardian is making available an open public sporting events calendar which knows for sure.
December 7, 2009
Africa in the FIFA World Cup: Part 6 - The noughties and beyond...
Part 6 of this series looks at the 2002 and 2006 World Cups, and the prospects for African teams now that the 2010 draw has been finalised.
December 4, 2009
Africa in the FIFA World Cup: Part 5 - The nineties
December 3, 2009
Africa in the FIFA World Cup: Part 4 - The eighties
December 2, 2009
Africa in the FIFA World Cup: Part 3 - The seventies
December 1, 2009
Africa in the FIFA World Cup: Part 2 - The wilderness years
November 30, 2009
Africa in the FIFA World Cup: Part 1 - The thirties
Africa in the FIFA World Cup
A series of posts looking at the history of African teams appearing in the World Cup, from Egypt in 1934 to South Africa hosting in 2010.