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Is peer-to-peer streaming of international football showing the game a new revenue model?
When I lived in Greece it was sometimes a bit hit and miss whether I got to see England games. The time difference meant they were on late in the evening, and often there were competing fixtures of more local interest, or featuring Denmark, Sweden or Norway, from where a great deal of tourists to Chania originated. It meant that during England's doomed attempt to qualify for Euro2008 I got used to the UEFA live match centre, and relied...

Read the full post - Published June 13, 2009 in 2010 World Cup, Football, Media, Television, Web - 1 comment so far

Wembley on the web: Part 2 - The FA Cup Final online from Sky Sports and the BBC
Yesterday I started blogging about some of my thoughts on the live online coverage provided for the FA Cup Final between Chelsea and Everton, with a look at the websites of the two channels showing the game live, Setanta and ITV. Today I wanted to look at two networks who no longer have the rights to broadcast the game - Sky Sports and the BBC. Photo by umbrofootball Sky Sports For Sky Sports it must be a major irritation...

Read the full post - Published June 12, 2009 in BBC, Football, Media, Television, Web - 1 comment so far

Wembley on the web: Part 1 - The FA Cup Final online from ITV and Setanta
Like much of the male half of the country, on Saturday 30th May I shunned the Cup Final weather to sit in a darkened pub and actually watch the Cup Final. Unlike most, I suspect, I picked a pub with wifi so that I could also monitor the live web coverage of the game from the UK's major broadcasters. Photo by umbrofootball ITV ITV had a big-hitting line-up on Saturday, but when you visited ITV.com during the game, the...

Read the full post - Published June 11, 2009 in Football, Media, Television, Web - No comments yet

Leeds United play-off #fail. Again.
I'm still smarting from Leeds United's failure to reach the League One Play-Off Final, after losing to Millwall on aggregate this week. On Friday thelondonpaper published a selection of online messages from fans including this one: "Billy Bremner, Nora Batty, Arthur Scargill, Kaiser Chiefs, Karen Matthews, Peter Sutcliffe, Jermaine Beckford...YOUR BOYS TOOK ONE HELL OF A BEATING!" As a parody of this famous moment of football commentary I'm sure it worked great on the independentmillwall.com forums. Reproduced in print though?...

Read the full post - Published May 17, 2009 in Football - No comments yet

'Local Newspaper Week' - Being local...
This week has been, according to the Newspaper Society, 'Local Newspaper Week'. It seemed like an opportune moment to blog about some of the things I've noticed about my local newspapers since I moved to Muswell Hill. I've been collecting clippings and pictures of the Muswell Hill Journal and Ham & High Broadway since October, and so far this week I've blogged about advertising, some of the issues around local democracy and the potential impact of the local council's own...

Read the full post - Published May 15, 2009 in Doctor Who, Football, London, Media, Muswell Hill, Newspapers, Regional press - No comments yet

West Ham away shirt design #FAIL
It is always small things that are telling, and if ever there was evidence that the replica kit culture of the modern football game has become truly absurd, it was events yesterday at Villa Park. It used to be that your second 'change' strip was only worn when a clash of colours meant that you were forced to change. Nowadays, the 'away' kit is trotted out most games when you are away from home, for merchandise familiarity, rather than any...

Read the full post - Published April 19, 2009 in Football - 1 comment so far

FIFA 2010 World Cup qualifying website review - Ukraine
During the course of the qualifying campaign for the 2010 South African World Cup, I've been reviewing the websites of England and the other teams in their group. I counted Croatia as 'done' by virtue of reviewing their website for Euro2008, and I counted England as 'done' because I reviewed the FA website back in September. It turns out that England have redesigned not just their kit but their website since then, and I suspect the Croatia review is...

Read the full post - Published April 1, 2009 in 2010 World Cup, Football, Web - 1 comment so far

Stan Collymore scores with me on Twitter
Part of the recent buzz around Twitter in the UK has been driven by the adoption of the service by celebrities. Some of them have been using it as a pure broadcast medium, but there are also some examples of fantastic audience interaction there, and people who seem to be real naturals with the medium. One of them is Stan Collymore. Since he retired from football he has often been a controversial figure, but I've been totally impressed with the...

Read the full post - Published March 29, 2009 in Football, Radio - 3 comments so far

FIFA 2010 World Cup qualifying website review - Wales
During the course of this World Cup Qualifying campaign, I've been reviewing the Football Association websites of England and their opponents. And when England haven't been involved in competitive action, I've been looking at the websites of the other 'home' nations. So far I've looked at Scotland and Northern Ireland, and today it is the turn of Wales. Wales have a crunch match this afternoon against Finland. Anything other than a win is almost certain to consign the Welsh...

Read the full post - Published March 28, 2009 in 2010 World Cup, Football, Web - 1 comment so far

The mobile web's penalty shoot-out - Nokia N95 vs iPhone
Last Wednesday Arsenal's Champions League tie against Roma went to penalties - but the real shoot-out for me was in the Crown & Sceptre pub on Foley Street, between @solle's iPhone and my Nokia N95. It was 'London IA in the Pub' night, but Matthew and I were a little distracted by the game. Once it went to extra-time we nearly ducked out to a nearby pub that had Sky, but instead we ended up watching the penalty shoot-out in...

Read the full post - Published March 17, 2009 in Apple, BBC, Football, Mobiles - 1 comment so far

"Nous sommes Leeds"

Published March 2, 2009 in Football, Nostalgia - 1 comment so far