More football and the UK season hasn’t even started yet. This time it’s Carlsberg with ‘If Carlsberg did kickabouts..’ from 72andSunny Amsterdam. As you might expect, there’s everything including the kitchen sink going here. Sky’s Jeff Stelling makes an appearance, ...
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Fifa boss Sepp Blatter (left) is resigning, even as we write this, which surely testifies to the belated realisation on the part of its big money sponsors – who include Adidas, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Visa and Sony – that they can ...
Read More »Idris Elba’s ‘unstoppable’ Pepsi film muddles the 70s
Mandela actor Idris Elba has written and directed a film, ‘Unstoppable,’ for Pepsi as part of its football-themed ‘Beats of the Beautiful Game’ series. Why’s everybody so obsessed with football? No idea. Anyway it’s a spin on the old ‘boy ...
Read More »BT’s Champion’s win makes the next Premiership battle a penalty shoot-out Sky can’t afford to lose
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 ...
Read More »W+K New York offers its spin on British football supporters (or should that be hooligans?) for ESPN
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 ...
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