I loved the story last week about Chelsea starting to use Twitter to communicate directly with fans. Basically, Chelsea FC has begun Twittering (under its mascot’s name) following a huge growth in fake Chelsea FC accounts. I can imagine there are quite a few people out there who would love to hear the ins and outs of their clubs. My club (Liverpool FC) were apparently the first to use it and now others appear to be springing up everywhere. Liverpool has more than 17,000 followers but it also has a number ...

Mike Tyson Vs Evander Holyfield all those years ago was an exciting flight albeit slightly alarming. Two of the world’s hardest heavyweights battling it out, made for interesting late night viewing. However, that was twelve years ago and this is now. Today’s Metro is reporting that they plan to do it again with these two going at it again for $25 million each making it the highest paid fight of all time. Are they serious? Take a look at a recent picture of Mike below – does he look like a refined athlete ready to go twelve rounds? This is purely ...

Here is a recording of the press conference that was given by the new Newcastle FC football manager yesterday. Joe Kinnear was a surprise choice to nearly everyone, including himself as far as I can tell. In this truly shocking interview he manages to swear a whopping 52 times and asks the journalists to ‘mind their own business’. I know journalists can be harsh but is this really the best way to deal with them and does this show the kind of leadership a Premiership football club needs? ...

Last week I noticed a couple of articles in PR Week on one of my favourite subjects - football. It has been well documented that more and more owners of Premier League clubs are now coming from foreign countries and that is bringing its own set of problems. Many of these new owners don’t understand the traditions of their clubs and fully grasp the importance of their culture to the fans – many simply live and breathe it everyday. I seem to remember a certain Russian Billionaire starting the foreign ownership craze off. Some of these owners are welcomed  with open arms like the new Manchester City Owners ...

Here is a quick story which might interest you. Hartlepool FC has decided (for commercial reasons apparently) to ban all photographers and reporters from its local paper the Hartlepool Mail. In response to this the Northern Echo, which covers most of the North East of England, thought it would help its local friend out by providing pictures and a review of the latest game. Hartlepool FC then kindly decided to ban it as well. I don’t know about you but I think this is rather daft as there will be ...

As a keen football fan, I was interested to read an article on Brand Republic reporting that Chelsea FC has made its website much more social. Supporters can now download widgets relating to fixtures, Chelsea TV and player feeds. There is also a new forum where fans can discuss the latest rumours etc. All of the widgets are exportable to the popular social networking sites. Now I applaud them for doing something social but this got me thinking about useful football widgets.  Surely a useful one could be 'The Fans' ...

Sir Alex piped up this morning saying he isn't worried about Chelsea as most of the team are over 30 - a typical Fergie mind game tactic. Did it work? I sincerely doubt it but I bet it made him feel a whole lot better at the press conference. He is a master of PR, spin and pressure. I doubt the Man Utd communications director has to tell him what to say and how to say it and I doubt he would listen either. Fergie uses the same tactics every year - wind them all up and apply the pressure early. To be honest, most of the time it seems to work. Unfortunately, I expect this season ...

Apologies to all of you who aren't football fans but as I love football I thought I should do a quick post on what I think of the latest European championships. I have watched all the games so far and I am quite happy as I placed a £5 bet on Portugal to win the whole tournament last week (before it started). I know they haven't got a world class striker but I just think this year could be their year. They are superb technically and they hold the ball really well and most importantly they have some very exciting ...

I don't blog that regularly on football but I thought this was worth a quick post. I am a keen Liverpool fan but I love all football and enjoy watching most teams - no matter what level. Usually I have to take the regular journey out to the local pub to watch the best games with friends. However, I think I might now have found the answer to watching my favourite sport whenever it's on. Games from the Premiership, La Liga and the Italian league and even formula 1 and boxing - it's all available by following some simple steps. You can simply log onto a website and watch these games across the internet. The site seems ...

I have just received the attached video by email, which Seb and I thought was very cool. A big thanks goes to Mr Justin McKeown for supplying it and brightening up my day. I always like to see football being played well - probably because I play like Bambi on ice. None of us can actually decide if it's CGI or not - I am guessing it is. Check it out, as it's very well put together, so you can appreciate the skill even if you aren't a big football fan. Enjoy. Technorati Tags: football video,Justin Mckeown,Chris Norton,...