Tag: football
Apple and Google to bid for Premier League football coverage rights?
Apple and Google are each expected to be planning to buy the rights to Premier League football coverage in the UK, taking on the might of broadcasters like Sky and ESPN for the priviledge. According to the Daily Mail, Apple…
Goal-line technology to hit Premier League next season?
Goal-line technology may be headed to the Premier League as soon as the start of the 2012-2013 season. That's according to Alex Horne, the FA's general secretary, who has revealed that the Football Association have begun trialing a number of…
YouTube and Manchester City FC join forces for content partnership
Manchester City have become the first Premier League football club to sign a content deal with video streaming kings YouTube. The club, who produce around 100 youTube videos each month, get control over rights-owned or club-created videos in the…
After the Sky/Premier League ruling how you can watch football on foreign satellite channels
Potentially huge news today as the European Court of Justice has ruled in favour of a pub landlady from Portsmouth who has been showing live football from foreign channels in her establishment, rather than subscribing to Sky. The ECJ said…
PREVIEW: Kinect Sports: Season 2 (Xbox 360)
I'll level with you; I'm not a massive fan of motion gaming. Waving your arms around over your head, jogging on the spot and generally making a complete arse of yourself in front of all who may be present;…
Andy Gray sent off from FIFA 2012 commentating team
Andy Gray's sexist comments cost him his job as Sky Sport's number one commentator for their football broadcasts last year, and now his remarks have also cost him his place on the FIFA 2012 commentating team. Gray, the former Aston…
49% of men admit to having streamed sport illegally online
49% of UK men have illegally watched sport online, a new poll of 1,661 participants has found. The majority of those who admitted to watching sport online blamed the high cost of subscription sports channels, with only 2% said they…
Who Ate All The Pies and Magcloud team up for iPad footy mag
Top UK football website Who Ate All The Pies are bringing their top footy knowledge and wit to Apple's iPad tablet in the first issue of the Who Ate All The Pies digital magazine. Mixing features written by leading football…
Yahoo! Premier League football video highlights page goes live
Footie fans looking to catch up on any Premier League action they may have missed over the weekend can now head over to Yahoo!'s video highlights page for a round up of all the goals, including Blackpool's shock rise to…
Video Preview: Football Manager 2011 revealed
In what is probably the least surprising piece of gaming news you'll hear all day, Sports Interactive have today revealed that a 2011 edition of their annual Football Manager sim is in the works. Among Football Manager 2011's many…
