The latest Mirror Football app for the iPhone app is now much improved and is completely free for the 2011/2012 season. It can now be personalised and includes a new global fan blog.
MirrorFootball.co.uk has announced that it is launching a new and updated version of its popular football app for the iPhone, and it is packed with new and innovative features to coincide with the new 2011/2012 football season. The best news of all for football fans is that they will be able to get the app for free from all the Apple global apps stores, which will give even more fans access to Mirror football.
This app further builds on the success of the MirrorFootball.co.uk website (which in June 2011 had 3.8m users. Source: ABC) The app now allows users to personalise the homepage with a bookmark for their favourite club in the Premier League. It also gives access to club specific news, live match trackers which give minute by minute results and extensive photo and video-led content, as well as the new global fan blog facility.
The app gives footie fans instant access to a unique 24/7 news service which can be accessed anytime anywhere and there is also a wealth of exclusive pieces offering the opinions from both award winning writers and footballing legends. These include the transfer expert Darren Lewis, Oliver Holt, Robbie Savage, Mark Lawrenson and Martin Lipton.
Users can leave their comments on the articles and also send them onto their friends as well as publishing them on Facebook and Twitter. The new global fan blogs are great for those fans who follow football in other countries, and they can read analysis of games by bloggers in Spain, Italy, France, South America and MLS.
Key App Features
FREE to download
24/7 breaking football news
Personalise your homepage to your club
Live up-to-the-minute match tracker
Latest scores, results, fixtures and tables
News & reports for all Premier League clubs
Insights from award-winning columnists
Real fans view from global bloggers
Share stories with friends via Facebook and Twitter
Videos of press conferences and interviews
Read the top stories offline
Chris Ellis, Managing Director, Digital – Nationals Division, said: “We’re really excited to be launching the updated Mirror Football App for the new season. As well as adding a whole new raft of content to cover foreign leagues, we’ve made the app totally free so that many more iPhone and iPod Touch fans will have real-time access to the latest football news, opinion, results and fun that MirrorFootball.co.uk is known for. We’re also offering users more and more interactivity around video, social media and comments, making this the most compelling football app you can download.”
Consumers can find the app on Apple’s app store by searching for ‘Mirror Football’; customers in the UK can also get it by texting FOOTBALL to 67800 or find the app on the Apple app store at http://bit.ly/mirrorfootballapp, plus a trailer showing the app can be viewed at http://youtu.be/egq42pHZLCA.
Controversial goal line decisions should become a thing of the past and no longer be a feature of the game after the current Premier League season. According to Richard Scudamore, Chief Executive of the Premier League, modern technology will be brought in before next year’s season.
Scudamore has vowed to deliver and improve standards both on and off the football field. Goal line technology trials will continue through the year, according to the International Football Association Board, the association which controls the rules of the game. Sepp Blatter, the FIFA president has always opposed the use of technology but has now been forced to reconsider and an introduction is realistic in the forthcoming year.
Players do their utmost to score or prevent goals and fans become hoarse in their vocal support. Goals can make or break a player or managers career. The technology is accessible and it is important to be fair to all. If allowed the Premier League would put the technology in place immediately.
A select committee report on the future of football will shortly be delivered. But the report creates a degree of negativity after the inquiry had heard evidence from a number of witnesses including former FA chief executive, Ian Watmore and ex-chairman Lord Triesman, who focused on the poor rapport between the Premier League and the FA.
Scudamore cannot agree English football is broken and in need of saving. The Premier League has had a very good year and despite the poor showing in South Africa and the 2018 World Cup disappointment, English football goes from strength to strength. The FA needs to deal with the issues.
A unique penalty shoot out was held on 22nd March in London to promote the new boot shoot app for the iPhone from Hyundai. Taking part in the shoot out where the football legends John Barnes and Ian Rush.
Carly Cole, the fitness instructor and WAG acted as referee for the event, which had the ex Wales and England players going head to head before the two nations competed against each other in a European qualifier game on the 26th March. The two players hadn’t been on the same pitch since the FA Cup Final in 1996.
Barnes and Rush competed in a live recreation of the new app, trying to score as many goals as they could. There were no goal nets however, the target was the boot of a Hyundai i20. They were fiercely competitive, and took shots from distance of 20 and 10 yards.
The new Hyundai Boot Shoot app, which features the very latest technology to give a realistic 3D in-stadium feel, allows players to score points by flicking footballs into the open boot of a Hyundai ix35. As the game advances, additional points can be scored by targeting shots at the body work and windows of ix35’s speeding around on the on-screen pitch.
Available to download for free from Apple iTunes from Saturday 26th March, the app will provide users with details of the Hyundai range as well as allowing them to arrange a test drive through their nearest dealership.
Arsenal stars Andrey Arshavin and Marouane Chamakh are fronting the new Nike and Foot Locker campaign for the newly styled Nike Air Max 90 (AM90). This 60 second film also stars Roma’s (and ex-Fulham) Stefano Chuka Okaka who is wildely tipped to be the first black player to play for Italy. The AM90 will hit the shelves on 15th August 2010, priced at £89.99.
There is also a chance of winning VIP tickets to an Arsenal match for you and a friend by and to find out more by visiting:
Coming soon to a sports shop near you, Reebok ZigTech is the training shoe designed to help athletes run further and faster for longer with less fatigue.
French footballer Thierry Henry was spotted championing the new ZigTech range alongside Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton at the US Reebok launch in March.
The two raced one another across a zig-zagging assault course, putting their Reebok ZigTech trainers to the test as they swang from ropes, ran up travelators and through obstacles.
Once the roaring crowd had quietened down, Reebok explained the ideas behind their ZigTech trainers and their unusual Zig sole unit.
Designed as a training aid, Reebok ZigTech is a new range of athletic shoes inspired by the energy transfer of a slinky. The concept is for the energy generated at heel strike to ripple down the zigs in the ZigTech sole, through the stride and providing extra power when the wearer pushes off with their toes, propelling them forward faster.
So the combination of extreme cushioning and efficient energy transfer takes the focus away from shock absorption and into forward momentum. And because key leg muscles are being used purely for running and not taking the impact of the athlete’s feet hitting the floor, it’s possible to run further and faster for longer with less fatigue and a reduced chance of injury.
The Reebok ZigTech is already being worn by Reebok sponsored athletes to enhance their training sessions and will be coming to the UK very soon.
The ‘Pringoooals’ event for football fans to perform their original goal celebrations
On 26th May at the Soho Theatre in London, Pringles hosted an event where football fans, inspired by Peter Crouch’s robot dance, performed their own weird and wonderful celebrations to a live studio audience.
A stream of hopefuls turned up on the day to try and impress a celebrity judging panel consisting of …
Comedian Paddy Mcguinness of Phoenix Nights fame, Peter”The voice of X Factor” Dixon and Andrew ‘Starman’ Stone the wannabe pop star from Sky 1’s documentary – Pineapple Dance Studios
The event was hosted by Capital Radio DJ Kat Shoob and during the course of the day she introduced all sorts of goal celebrations to the crowd , from the sublime to the frankly ridiculous.
The top ten as voted for by the judges have made it onto the Pringles Facebook page where visitors can now vote for their favourites with the most ‘liked’ winning a state of the art 3d home entertainment system to help them enjoy the rest of the Summer’s World cup action You can see the celebrations and highlights of the day including an Andrew Stone Dance master class at www.facebook.com/pringles.
A new England Football Rattle app for iPhone and iPod Touch is now available to download from Apple’s AppStore. This new app means you can now support the England football team the way your dad and grandad used to…. but with an iphone.
It works just like a normal football rattle. You wave your iPhone or iPod Touch as if were a football rattle handle and the rattle sound is created. The rattle will speed up or slow down according to the speed and vigour with which you wave your device. It really is great fun.
Coming soon to a sports shop near you, Reebok ZigTech is the training shoe designed to help athletes run further and faster for longer with less fatigue.
A new England Football Rattle app for iPhone and iPod Touch is now available to download from Apple’s AppStore. This new app means you can now support the England football team the way your dad and grandad used to…. but with an iphone.