Tag: football
Setanta Replay coming to Virgin Media: football on demand
In the ongoing battle of cable and telco providers against each other and the big, bad Sky, Virgin Media has announced that it’s done a deal with Setanta to bring Setanta Replay to its cable TV customers.
In basic terms, this means that a range of football, including Premier League, FA Cup, England home friendlies and World Cup qualifiers will be available to watch not-quite-live – up to seven days after the game, in fact.
XL customers will get the package free, while M or L subscribers must stump up seven quid a month. If golf, racing and Scottish football is more your bag, you can catch live action via a Setanta Sports package…
Opinion: Bluetooth is not the colour when it comes to football technology
We’ve all experienced it, walking or driving past a mysterious embedded Bluetooth advert somewhere that tries to download itself to your phone automatically because the BT is switched on, ready to receive on your handset.
Of course, you’ve got the option to decline it and unless you are very stupid, you will do so because that download could be anything, from a mobile-type virus to porn.
But now a firm called Bluepod Media is hoping to deluge us with adverts each time we step inside the football stadium of our favourite team…
See inside Adidas' high-tech Teamgeist II football
The only way to make sure every refereeing decision is 100% correct is to replace the men in black with robots. The added benefit would be they could strike John Terry down with a laser gun whenever he oversteps the line between healthy aggression and dirty thugitude. Which is often.
BetUknow launches fantasy football betting community
A new service offers football fans the chance to win prizes for their predictions for UK Premiership, Champions League and Euro 2008 matches. They won’t be gambling real money though: the site gives each user a virtual allowance of £1,000 a week to stake on their forecasts, using odds from real-world bookmakers.
YouTube Video of the Day – 100 yard football pass
If there was some kind of competition for throwing a ball very very far into the arms of your mate, then this guy would surely win it hands down?
Football-fanatic? Join up to our Who Ate All The Pies community
Incase you’re not a Pies reader, and haven’t heard of our fab new community, or indeed our Pies sites, read on, football fans.
Our network of football blogs has grown dramatically over the last few months, with the original Who Ate All The Pies acting as a proud father to the club-themed blogs, Arsenal Pies, Chelsea Pies, Liverpool Pies, Man United Pies…
Sky HD reveal the worst ever football kits of all time
With the Premiership kicking off this Saturday, Sky is proudly boasting about all the matches it’s squeezed money out of its subscribers to be able to show in high definition.
They’ve also found time to compile the top 10 worst football kits of all time, based on a survey of one thousand UK footie fans.
In first place is the 1992-93 season home shirt for Hull City, whose creator took their “tigers” nickname too literally.
In second place, the infamous grey “our players are camouflaged” 95-96 away strip for Manchester United, which was blamed for their 3-1 defeat at Southampton.
In third place, a variety of strips used by Mexico in the 1990s.
Read on for four to ten.
Virgin Media to offer streaming Football League matches via broadband and mobile
Virgin Media has announced that it has struck a deal with the Football League to stream match action via broadband and mobile to its customers.
It seems as if selected matches will be streamed live, while highlights will be available for a week after the transmission. The service will start ahead of the Coca Cola Championship.
Struggling with Wii Mario Strikers Charged Football? Here's some tips
Nintendo hit the back of the net with its excellent Mario Strikers Charged Football last week – it’s the first Wii game to be playable online, and as my review said, it’s ace. However, there’s already plenty of sharpshooters out there kicking sand (well, giant mushrooms) in newbies’ faces.
Wii online triumph: Mario Strikers Charged Football impressions
Today’s a momentous day for owners of Nintendo’s Wii console – it’s finally getting its first online game. Mario Strikers Charged Football is the game, and as you’d guess, it mixes traditional footy with all manner of Mario Kart-esque power-ups.
