Football and Social Media

Often I sit and ponder the question of who will be football’s next star. Clubs have extensive scouting networks to help them answer this question however us mere mortals unfortunately do not have the same resources at our disposal as they do. So what do we do? Do you get the latest Championship Manager simulation [...]

The Premier League Champions: Manchester United This was a tough call. I think United have a stronger squad that’s mixed with youth and experience, they have that winning mentality and have not lost any key players yet. This season I cannot seeing another team throwing the title away (Arsenal last season) either. With their experience and a [...]

Chelsea fans have overtaken those of Liverpool, resulting in a change in the Facebook league table. Chelsea are now in 3rd, although the race for second is up for grabs with Arsenal. It looks like Liverpool have it all to do to take back their position, can they rally enough Facebook users to ‘like’ their [...]

With just 44 days left until a brand spanking new season begins, the latest update in the Facebook Premier League shows that whilst Manchester United are cruising at the top, the fight for second couldn’t be closer! Our own ‘Big Four’ shows that just over one per cent separates second placed Arsenal with fourth placed [...]

For the past few days, the story of Charles N’Zogbia’s imminent move to Liverpool has been appearing all over transfer forums. It has now been revealed to be complete nonsense sourced from a fake Twitter account. Claiming to be an agency representing N’Zogbia, the tweet linked to an ‘exclusive’ announcement, which stated: ‘Ladies & Gents, [...]

We all say something stupid online that we wish we could delete or hope nobody saw. However, the majority of us are not in the public eye where every tweet is scrutinised down to the smallest details. As more footballers join Twitter, the more the general public and media will be watching their tweets, so it is [...]