Premier League
As a thank you for helping them sell out 12 of their 14 away games so far this season, Sunderland are issuing free away shirts to all of their fans who travel to their game this weekend. Club staff inside the ground will issue each supporter with one of the
Premier League
The Premier League have revealed details of the new branding that will come into effect along with the division’s new multi-billion pound television rights deal at the start of the 2016/17 season. With more money involved in the game than ever before – the new deal is worth £5.
Manchester United
On Wednesday night Newcastle United’s Papiss Cisse and Manchester United’s Jonny Evans took themselves down to the lowest level by spitting at each other. Only one of the two, however, has made steps to rectify their standing in the public eye since. Step forward Cisse, and credit is
Crystal Palace
Appointing a new manager is a pretty big deal for football clubs, and as such gets a lot of attention from the press. That’s why clubs have whole strategies around announcing such news. There’s the photos to plan and the press releases to write, and that’s without
Newcastle United
It’s safe to say that, so far, Newcastle United’s Twitter presence has been pretty poor. Since its inception, the account has been used to peddle club merchandise and post some ill-timed Tweets [http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1943233-newcastle-uniteds-twitter-survey-on-deadline-day-gets-taken-over-by-angry-fans] that have been greeted with anger by a lot of fans.
Premier League
New Year’s resolutions are all well and good at ten-to-midnight on New Year’s Eve, but once sobriety begins to kick in they never seem like such a great idea. This year rather than come up with a host of promises to ourselves that we’re never going to
Fulham
As pointed out by alt-3 Sports, thanks to the sacking of Martin Jol following Fulham’s 3-0 defeat to West Ham yesterday Twitter now has its second ever user who’s also manager of a Premier League club. Rene Meulensteen has taken over first team duties @FulhamFC making him the
Premier League
Is popularity the best measure of success? Maybe in some cases, but in the world of social media it’s fraught with problems. Following on from my last blog [http://prattleblog.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/how-to-measure-the-quality-of-a-clubs-social-media-output/] , I decided to look at the follower numbers of Premier League clubs in
Premier League
[http://prattleblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/peerindex-logo.png] [http://prattleblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/klout-flag-square-2.png]TOTAL1 Arsenal8894912Liverpool8694903Manchester City8595904Chelsea849388.55Tottenham Hotspur8591886Aston Villa819085.57Everton809185.58Sunderland8189859Newcastle United799084.510Norwich City818884.511Swansea City818884.512West Ham United8089 84.513Fulham788983.514West Bromwich Albion768982.515Queens Park Rangers75898216 Stoke City668977.517Southampton61927
augmented reality
Technology is moving at a million miles a minute and as a result so is the impact that it has on the ability of organisations to engage stakeholders via mobile marketing tools. To many it hasn’t been long since they truly got their hands on and heads around social
Premier League
Since clubs are using the January transfer window to revise their squads I thought I’d take this opportunity to publish the latest edition of the Social Media Premier League table. So what can you expect in the latest set of results? Well, there’s been an near wholesale shift
Liverpool FC
We’re often told about the Premier League’s international appeal, usually when the staggering details of the next multi-billion pound TV deal are leaked to the press or the dreaded 39th game idea is floated for the umpteenth time, but social media has really brought home the allure of