BREAKING: Estate Agents Take The Moral High Ground
The Zooplarisation of WBA Other Stuff Like ThisThe 123 of Sponsorship Morality I'm confused. Sochi 2014 Pressure groups demand Olympic sponsors take a stand on the issue of lesbian and gay rights...
View ArticleSide Bet: The UK’s TWO Biggest Football Sponsorships Are Now Up For Sale
Barclays is considering ending its £40m-a-year sponsorship of the Premier League after senior figures at the bank told the Sunday Telegraph it had “zero value” in the UK. The bank’s present deal runs...
View ArticleWe Are All Outsiders
Adrian Chiles is having a very important identity crisis. Chiles feels sport has become too corporate. Here he is quoted on the topic in The Independent, ahead of a big Champions League night:...
View ArticleGif of the Day: Stelling’s WTF Moment
Other Stuff Like ThisAlan Pardew on Wonga’s customer satisfaction levels Multimillionaires shouldn't offer opinions on pay day loans really. The Pardew quote does him few favours, via Wonga's name...
View ArticleThe Stanley Knife: a journey through football
News that Stanley Black and Decker have become official hardware partner of FC Barcelona carries Alannis Morrisette levels of irony. To a child of the 1970s, any mention of the Stanley knife, the tool...
View ArticleInfographic Schminfographic: Football fans
Other Stuff Like ThisInfographic Schminfographic pt2: US sport’s Twitter numbersFollow the money What's the difference between rights holders, agencies or teams that do Twitter well, and those that...
View ArticleNiche Sponsor Category of the Day: Crime writers
There’s niche, and there’s niche. Raith Rovers will be sponsored by crime fiction writer and lifelong fan Val McDermid next season. The author already has a stand at Rovers’ Stark’s Park named in her...
View ArticlePhrase of the Day: Corporate Nationalism
Mark Doidge cites Sony and Coke as companies using city centre live sites to play the global, local game around the World Cup. In a variety of locations across Brazil, officially licenced Fan Fests...
View ArticleBeware of Banter
Malky Mackay’s horrible text messages have been dismissed as ‘banter’ by the League Manager’s Association, a word that reveals as much about that organisation as it does about Mackay. ‘It’s a terrible...
View ArticleAn Unofficial List of Good Questions
Why do we assume sporting brilliance is transferable? Few words have been devalued quite as much as ‘legend’, but in the case of Beckenbauer, Cruyff and Platini, the label was justified. What’s more,...
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