We are grateful today to the Bristol City matchday programme for allowing us to co-publish an article from Paul Binning aka The Exiled Robin, one of the contributors to our recent season preview. Here, Paul looks at the extraordinary impact of social media on the game and in particular Twitter. When you bear in mind Twitter only came into being five years ago, its growth has been phenomenal. The way it is used, sometimes abused and is revolutionising communication is fascinating and scary in equal measure. The world of @’s and #’s may seem bewildering but it is rapidly turning into the…
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The Monday Profile: Steve Morison
Most of us who braved the icy pavements of South Bermondsey on Saturday evening were rewarded with a performance that belied Millwall’s recent barren spell. And, as less hardy folk watching from centrally-heated living rooms will have noted, this was in no little part due to the persistence of Sky Sports’ man-of-the-match Steve Morison.Interviewed on the turf after the 3-0 demolition of Scunthorpe, Morison admitted a desire to play top-flight football, and he has applied himself during the past 18 months like a man with clear ambition. Unlike an erstwhile rival for the `rags-to-riches’ cliche, though, time is not on…
20 Years of Fan Culture Part 2
One early Nineties issue of When Saturday Comes depicted a grinning Frank Rijkaard giving the thumbs up to Channel 4’s landing of Serie A coverage for a mere million pounds and comparing this favourably with the £304 million price BSkyB forked out for the right to bring us the newly formed Premier League. At the time, with Liverpool in the early stages of decline and George Graham’s unremarkable Arsenal side the reigning Champions, the sum did seem pretty ridiculous and as the fledgling broadcaster struggled to land subscriptions in its early months, the last laugh was certainly with the Italians.In…
TTU Awards 2009/2010: Crimes Against Football
He’s a sitting duck, but Richard Scudamore nonetheless edges it in the race for the Crimes Against Football gong. At the risk of sounding preachy, Sky’s ruthless bedfellow continues to grate on us unfortunates, and if the first few paragraphs of this Times piece don’t make you sick in your mouth a little then maybe you’re on the wrong site. It’s not a simple case of biting the hand that feeds us: this “fiercely uncompromising negotiator” is compromising the competitive spirit of the game at this very moment; we gave extensive (for us, anyway) treatment of the parachute payments issue…
Divided We Stand: the Problem of Parachute Payments
The Premier and Football Leagues reached a deal over restructured solidarity payments from the former’s coffers two weeks ago, but with the Play-Offs and pre-World Cup mutterings taking precedence there’s been frustratingly limited coverage of the landmark agreement in the national press.First established in 2007, the payments sought to ensure that a proportion of Premier League income was redistributed down the professional football pyramid, and were welcomed by the then Football League Chairman Lord Mawhinney as a “generous gesture”. The intervening years have witnessed an unabated rise in Premier League revenues, and following a record-breaking overseas broadcasting rights bonanza it…
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