Tag Archives: football

It’s a bit odd when a refusal to overpay for already overpaid football and footballers knocks £1.4bn off your market cap but that’s what happened to BSkyB yesterday as, in effect, it saved the best part of £900m by declining ...

This is interesting for all sorts of reasons (most of which we’ve tried to cram into the headline). So have the Big Apple-ites captured the (often rancid) flavour of British football support? Maybe they have. And they weren’t to know ...

Buccaneering Irish bookie Paddy Power has launched in Italy, scene of an ongoing football match-fixing scandal. Why overpaid footballers should need the money is a mystery to the rest of us, but there you are. So who better than Jesus ...

‘I would run to you’ is the score for this latest Nike Free Running opus ‘Run Stronger’ from Wieden+Kennedy. And very charming it is too, with a the lady loping effortlessly across American while her beloved ends up in intensive ...

Well we’re only worried about them pulling a hamstring or something. You can imagine the client briefing meeting at Pepsi: “yes, we know we’ve been doing the same thing for years and so has Adidas and so has Nike but ...

At this rate they’ll be introducing a football (or maybe soccer, in deference to our American friends) category at Cannes soon. The ether is awash with ads featuring football and footballers and it’s going to get worse (better? Depends on ...

Interesting to see that Jim Hytner – whose career has more switchbacks to it than the Mille Miglia – is once more emerging triumphant from the quicksand of a marketing career. Hytner (pictured) has just replaced long-serving Richard Beavan as ...

I’m home alone whilst the other half is out on a posh event in the West End. It’s been a week or so of the same with her off to the Brits without me, last night at another do somewhere ...

New(ish) agency Johnny Fearless, started by Neil Hughston from Grey and Paul Domenet and David Howard from Saatchi & Saatchi a year ago, has joined the racism controversy currently gripping English football with the launch of 2sox1goal, an effort to ...