Football Media

Update: Then again, maybe not. MyFC have called a ‘Special General Meeting’ to discuss changes to the Society Rules which if accepted, would allow MyFC to collect membership fees monthly as opposed to annually. An economic crunch makes it less likely for people to financially invest in a club they never supported in the first [...]

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Want to make money writing about football? You mean they’re going to pay me for ranting and raving like a moron? Sign me up! Blogging and the self-employment opportunities it offers (fewer than most people realise, but still) is an attractive proposition. Add the emotional escapism that football offers (if in doubt, think of the double [...]

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ITV, along with BBC, Sky and Setanta, is one of four major options for UK residents for sports programming. Currently ITV Sport hold the rights to Champions League football (shared with Sky Sports), FA Cup action (shared with Setanta Sports), rights to the next two World Cups (jointly with BBC Sport), plus exclusive rights to [...]

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As anyone with moderate traffic to their website knows, spammers and pissed off commenters are the scourge of the Internet. The anonymity the Internet provides – especially the lack of personal, eye to eye contact – allows people to say and do things they wouldn’t think of doing and saying in person. Combine this with the [...]

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I don’t want to obsess about MyFootballClub. I really don’t. So, for once and for all, I’ll just put my thoughts about the whole thing into words and hope that I can just link back to this post in the future as opposed to repeating this rant again. The MyFC team are incredibly marketing-savvy – they [...]

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Football fans are idiots. Passionate without a cause, loyal to a fault, fools in the face of truth and stupid enough to fall for the same tricks every time, every year. To quote Sean Ingle (he wrote this 3 years ago): After all, you remain hooked on a sport that has, over the past decade, become as [...]

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I’m sure you’ve heard the news by now – that Arseblog.com has joined OleOle.com. Ok, so it’s not exactly headline news, what with the credit crunch, the gasoline prices, the fluctuating currency markets, the China earthquake and the fact that your girlfriend left you, but on a football blogging level (and trust me on this [...]

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Earlier this month, an article in the NY Times called blogging for hire the ‘digital-era sweatshop’, and I couldn’t agree more (thanks for the link mate). In fact, I think they’ve underestimated the problems linked with blogging for money (for starters, $10 / post is a lot better than what many people earn from blogging when [...]

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In late 2006, the Premier League went after YouTube in an attempt to remove the plethora of clips uploading by fans, and the knock-on effect had thousands of user accounts suspended for ‘repeat violations’ and the subsequent springing up of alternative sources of footy videos (no point in publicising them here). Then in May 2007 the [...]

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I remember, as a little kid, the anticipation and sheer joy involved in waiting for and finally acquiring a copy of the latest edition of the local cricket rag. Times have changed – we deal almost exclusively with digital media now – but the tangibility of print media (books, magazines, newspapers) ensures that there’s a certain [...]

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