By Stephen Foster on April 9, 2013
Football really must be taking over the world if this new epic from Adidas and newish London agency The Corner is anything to go by. It’s to launch Chelsea’s new home kit – as if anyone cares, apart from Stamford Bridge-ites of course. Anyway there’s a certain pleasure in seeing John Terry and co dumped [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged adidas, chelsea, it's blue, John Terry, new home kit, stamford bridge, tv ad
By Stephen Foster on May 21, 2012
W+K Amsterdam scored mightily for Nike (and itself) with 2010′s ‘Write the Future’ World Cup epic for Nike (including the Cannes Film Grand Prix) and Now W+K London steps up to the penalty spot, hoping to find the corner of the net just as Didier Drogba did for Chelsea with the winning penalty in the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged amsterdam, cannes film grand prix, champion's league final, chelsea, Didier Drogba, engllish players, eton wall game, euro 2012, LeBron James, my time is now, nike, online content, tunnels, wieden+kennedy london, write the future, youtube hits
By Stephen Foster on December 13, 2011
Real Madrid’s Special One must be the first football manager to inspire a children’s cartoon series and the merchandise to go with it (you can’t imagine anyone wanting the Sir Alex Ferguson version can you)? Sports Stars Media is aiming to float on London’s AIM stock exchange with the intention of raising £1.75m to fund [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged aim float, barcelona, cartoon, chelsea, comby's island, football, internazionale, Jose Mourinho, Jose Mourinho and the special ones, merchandising, porto, real madrid, Ruben Dias, sports stars media
By Stephen Foster on December 7, 2011
It’s a bad night for both Manchester United and Manchester City in the Champion’s League – Man U lost 2-1 to Swiss ‘no-hopers’ Basel and City beat Bayern Munich but failed to qualify for the knockout stages because Napoli beat Villareal in Spain. So, for the first time in years, England has only two teams [...]
Posted in Clients, News | Tagged abu dhabi, arsenal, barcelona, basel, bayern munich, Champions League, chelsea, David Gill, Glazer family, manchester united, manchster city, napoli, real madrid, Sir Alex Ferguson, villareal
By Stephen Foster on May 25, 2011
What happens on the pitch is only half of it in football these days (but it always has been a game of two halves) with footballers clogging up the courts with injunctions and boardroom battles. London Premiership team Arsenal, for decades supposedly run by gentlemen in contrast to the vulgar types in charge at other [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News | Tagged Alisher Usmanov, arsenal, Arsene Wenger, chelsea, Danny Fiszman, David Dein, emirates stadium, Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith, manchester city, manchester united, north london, Peter Hill-Wood, Roman Abramovitch, Stan Kroenke, steel magnate, uzbekistan, walmart
By Stephen Foster on October 8, 2010
Not the highly collapsible Chelsea striker himself but his shirt (No 11) which has been named as one of the contenders to be the final object in the ‘history of the world in 100 objects’ currently being promoted by the BBC and the British Museum. “Why?” asked audibly underwhelmed radio presenter Evan Davis of the [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged BBC, chelsea, coca-cola, Didier Drogba, Evan Davis, history of the world in 100 objects
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