Football and Social Media

At the start of the recently ended season Samsung launched a second season of their ‘Win A Pro Contract’ nationwide football talent search, in association with Swindon Town FC.  Sounds like a reality TV show doesn’t it? I mean to date we’ve had shows such as Wayne Rooney’s Street Striker and Football’s next star. At [...]

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 [...]

“There will be no official Twitter site until we have satisfied ourselves that we have determined a role for Twitter.” Said Head of Marketing for Manchester United, Jonathon Rigby. I was impressed with his answer. Even though I am a massive fan of social media (Heck I run a training and consultancy agency so I [...]

What I love about social media is the way you can use it to be creative. Last week we reported how Yeovil Town’s manager was using Twitter as a scouting system and this week Owen Hargreaves is using YouTube to prove his fitness. Once the darling of Bayern Munich, Manchester United and England, Mr Hargreaves [...]

The link between the public and the players has been strengthened through social media sites like Twitter, with football fans able to keep up to date with the personal lives of their favourite footballers and their reactions to current events. However, the connected nature of the modern social internet has also aided the ability for [...]

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 [...]

Another functionality for Twitter and Sportsmen is now retirement. One of the early sport stars that adopted Twitter to help build his personal brand was Shaq. So it was fitting for him to “hint” at retirement using the micro-blogging platform. This week we lost one of the greatest midfielders to play Football, Paul Scholes. I found out on Sky [...]

A year ago the only way we could see football teams celebrate their victories was through traditional media. Now, with the likes of Twitter and footballers tweeting, we get exclusive access. Here are some pics from Ferdinand, Nani, Rooney, Owen, Iniesta and Pique celebrating wining the Premiership and the Champions League. Premiership Title Medal Hernandez, Valencia & [...]

Thanks to our friends over at Football Marketing who provided us with this excellent breakdown of Manchester United Vs Barcelona result…according to Facebook. If the most powerful social networking site in the planet is correct then MANCHESTER UNITED will go into Saturday’s game with at least 1 advantage…they have more engagement and fans on Facebook [...]

Cool little interview with Manchester United’s Rio Ferdinand and BBC 1Xtra’s Vis. Talks about music, football and of course his beloved Twitter (around 3 minutes)