Capital One Cup
Football fans have a unique opportunity to decide the colour of the Wembley arch this week as part of the build up to the weekend’s Capital One Cup Final between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur. The Football League is tracking the use of two designated hashtags on Twitter this week
AS Roma
AS Roma have taken their first steps to engage with fans in China with several new initiatives. A few days ago the club revealed their plans, which include a message in Chinese on the front of the club’s home shirts and the launch of an official Sina Weibo account
Man City
Manchester City are the first football club in the world to offer a wearable match day app, which was released for the Android Watch ahead of Saturday’s game against Hull City. The CityMatchday Wear app alerts Android Watch users every time there’s a significant event in the game,
adidas
It’s not been long since Twitter announced two new features to the service: the ability to record and edit video within the app, and the enabling of a new ‘group direct message’ function [https://blog.twitter.com/2015/now-on-twitter-group-direct-messages-and-mobile-video-capture] . It’s the latter that has been making headlines, and
Paddy Power
As PR stunts go, this one takes some beating: former Newcastle, Tottenham, Everton, and Aston Villa winger David Ginola is to stand against Sepp Blatter for the Fifa presidency. That’s if this is even a stunt at all, of course. The fact this is being backed by notorious mischief-makers
Leyton Orient
Peterborough chairman Darragh MacAnthony took to Twitter this weekend to criticise his club’s players after a 2-0 defeat this weekend. MacAnthony – who has the handle @DMAC102 [https://twitter.com/DMAC102] – has been in charge of the League One club for eight years since taking over from Barry Fry, and
Oldham Athletic
“Enormous pressure from sponsors” has been cited as one of the reasons behind Oldham Athletic cancelling their deal to sign striker convicted rapist Ched Evans. There have also been threats to the club’s “staff and their families”. Verlin Rainwater Solution – which sponsors a stand at Oldham’s Boundary Park
Kevin Nolan
On the surface David Sullivan Jnr (@davesulley [http://twitter.com/davesulley]) is like any other footballer supporter on Twitter: the West Ham fan has broadcast his critical opinion on the club’s manager, midfielder Kevin Nolan, and claimed it was “coincidence” that striker Andy Carroll is ‘injured’ on his birthday,
Accrington Stanley
League Two side Accrington Stanley have come up with a novel way to make money – sell tickets for a game whichcould have happened. When they lost out to Yeovil in the second round of the FA Cup, the team watched as their League One counterparts were subsequently granted a bumper
Blackpool
Norwich winger Jacob Murphy has had his loan spell with Blackpool terminated after posting an image on Snapchat in which he mocked the club’s losing streak. Murphy, along with fellow loanee Donervon Daniels, appeared in the ill-judged image with the caption “We’re going to lose… again”. The Blackpool
southampton
Keeping up with Southampton’s media team is becoming a full-time job in itself, and they set the bar high in the build up to their New Year’s Day match against Arsenal by getting #GoodLuckTim trending – but perhaps not for the reasons you’re expecting. Rather than willing on
AS Roma
Despite the popularity of betting accounts such as @paddypower [http://twitter.com/paddypower], is there ever a time for professional football clubs to ape the antics of the mischief-making betting giants and taking part in ‘banter’ via Twitter? It’s such a cringeworthy term, banter, and one which will forever