All tagged Football
What is in a name? How have they been developed in different sports? In MLS, the introduction of St Louis City and Charlotte FC follows the trend towards traditional football names. However, the Seattle Kraken suggests NHL is taking the opposite route. Then there is the Washington Football Team, who have flipped their story by ditching the “Redskins” and are now actively looking for assistance from their fans to frame their future.
All or Nothing: Manchester City was billed as a game-changing documentary series. And not just because it was on Amazon. Fly-on-the-wall shows are often seen as a fly in the ointment for the playing staff. This one was different. Here’s my review.
Result Sports’ Global Benchmark data is the most trustworthy followership figures in world football. Here’s the trends I have spotted in the July 2018 statistics.
Arsene Wenger is man worthy of the utmost respect. I had the honour of working with him through the vast majority of his reign at Arsenal. This is why he was so special
St Pauli are the only established second-tier football team with more than one million followers on social media. That should rank them as another overachiever but does their cult status make them too unique to learn from?
Former Germany striker Lukas Podolski is an over-achiever on social media. I like his style, his positivity and the way he projects his personality. Here's why...
Lots and lots of numbers in this blog. Looking at all the football clubs with more than 1m followers on social media, what is changing, which countries like which platforms and who is overperforming?
So it's officially 2018 and it is blogging law that you have to produce a predictions piece. I canvassed the opinions of colleagues across the sports digital and business sector.
They were asked to answer one question - what is your off-the-wall sports social media prediction for 2018?
Here are my favourite social media posts by football clubs in 2017. The first was "tolerance, diversity and unity in one picture". The second was hilarious honesty. But both were unplanned.
The video game FIFA has beaten its main competitor because of its concentration on realism, creative evolution and the statistics for Ultimate Team. Ahead of the release of FIFA18, here's the story so far...
Wacky signing announcements are all the rage. However Yeovil Town created the buzz of the summer, relative to their size, with a slew of inventive reveals using FIFA, Snapchat, Countdown and THAT meme. Here's how they did it.
Cristiano Ronaldo is the most followed footballer in Europe. Like over half of the top 50, he used to play for Real Madrid or Barcelona. Correlation or causality?
