Tag Archives: football

More football, this time from some unexpected places. Sportsbet.io (which lets you bet in bitcoins and other crypto currencies – yikes) is sponsoring the CONIFA European Football Cup which features teams from minorities, including stateless people, and other locations currently ...

Vincent Kompany of Manchester City fame is back off to Anderlecht, where he started his career, as player-manager. Good luck to the estimable Kompany but he may find the dual role a touch taxing, as other famous names have before ...

We now have video assistant referees in big football games and, inevitably perhaps, now the ever-rapacious football authorities are planning to run ads – or maybe just branding – on them as we wait for the VAR to decide. Apparently ...

How long can a brand stay on top when it does everything wrong? Maybe the forthcoming fortunes of Manchester United will tell us. The once all-conquering English football club has just sacked its third manager – the once all-conquering Jose ...

More football, where would creative agencies be without football? Video game FIFA 19 is launching its new iteration courtesy of adam&eveDDB and this one certainly isn’t out of the agency’s song book. It fact it’s verging on the excitable. So ...

Simon Dent is the founder of Dark Horses, the sports marketing agency backed by UK creative agency Lucky Generals. Dark Horses’ clients include Nissan, Wiggle, Just Eat, Peloton and Southampton FC. With the Premiership starting tomorrow (August 10) chief coaching ...

At MAA we’ve always been a touch sceptical about data, not least because it’s attached to everything like a mantra. Now that every mobile ad and promotion features the wretched stuff – it means memory – it’s become a word ...

Real Madrid is the world’s most “powerful” football brand according to the latest annual report from Brand Finance (hardly surprising as they’re the best club team) but Manchester United remains the most valuable at $1.7bn because of its success in ...

Not sure yet but the odds are that he’ll be bought by Manchester United. The latest rumour is that United are prepared to pay Brazil star Neymar’s “release clause” at Barcelona (what a bright wheeze release clauses were on someone’s ...