Southampton bans photographs; newspaper employs cartoonist
Southampton football club has joined the long list of clubs that ban or want to ban the media from their matches as it suits. … Read the full post »
Football
Read all of my posts about football (soccer, that is, rather than football of the American or Australia kind).
The coalition agreement: culture, Olympics, media and sport
It’s rather a mouthful of a title for this section of the coalition agreement, but it reflects the diverse remit of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. … Read the full post »
If I were a football pundit, I’d be telling you how to fix the Thierry Henry fallout at a stroke
It’s terribly easy. Take one American import – the coach’s challenge from American football. Each team’s manager is allowed to challenge two referee decisions in a match. … Read the full post »
Alex Ferguson forced to unban BBC
A follow-up to my post When is it ok to ban a journalist?, about the habit in football of clubs banning journalists who say things they don’t like (can you imagine the uproar if a public sector body tried to do the same?):
Sir Alex Ferguson will have to end his six-year ban on giving interviews to … Read the full post »
When is it ok to ban a journalist?
Portsmouth FC have banned a local newspaper journalist from their ground after taking dislike to a piece that he wrote. … Read the full post »
Forget the Heinz ads, it’s FOOTBALL that needs banning
Cripes, crikey and cascading cucumbers. I see some humans are up in arms (or down in the gutter) not liking a Heinz TV ad showing two men briefly kissing and not knowing what to say to their kids. … Read the full post »