Traditionally, football discussion has always been done face to face.
With your friends at the coffee shop, with your drinking buddies at the pub, even with complete strangers you meet and strike up a conversation with over a common interest.
But the new media has let us talk football with anyone, anywhere.
Take the comments made on this compilation video of striker Ruud van Nistelrooy's goals, on YouTube, for example.
Here are just a selection:
benharris4675: His best days were at United and is one of the best strikers United have EVER had. Legend forever.
MrSuperTai: das ist die überraschung der saison 09/10 auf der ganzen welt. sogar mein deutsch lehrer fand dies höchst erstaunlich. der spieler hat auf jeden fall qualitäten und wird den HSV bis an die spitze führen.
91Laurens91: Eindelijk weg bij Madrid. Hij verdient te spelen bij een topploeg. nu HSV !!
Don't understand these comments? Exactly my point. It's fascinating how people from all over the world congregate on one video to share their comments, allowing us, if we can hurdle the language barrier, to talk football with someone in Germany, for example.
The sheer array of people that you can now talk to about football, on videos, on forums, or on the other countless aspects of new media, is yet another way in which the new media has altered football's landscape irrevocably.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
£50 To Own A Football Club?
The title is a slight exaggeration, but for £50, or SGD$110, a year, anyone can become a owning member of Ebbsfleet United, a football club in England.
This is due to MyFootballClub. By paying that amount of money, cash is generated, and was used in 2008 to purchase a controlling share of Ebbsfleet United, effectively becoming the owner of that football club.
Each individual member can now vote on a variety of things, from which players get selected to play, to even the financial budgets set for the team.
This organisation stood out for me when it first hit the news a couple of years ago because it gave power, no matter how slight, to the individual.
Anyone from any part of the world can have a say in the operating of Ebbsfleet United.
New media was the key in this, allowing people to be connected with each other, and without the Internet it's hard to see how this could have taken place.
Yet another way in which new media has affected football.
This is due to MyFootballClub. By paying that amount of money, cash is generated, and was used in 2008 to purchase a controlling share of Ebbsfleet United, effectively becoming the owner of that football club.
Each individual member can now vote on a variety of things, from which players get selected to play, to even the financial budgets set for the team.
This organisation stood out for me when it first hit the news a couple of years ago because it gave power, no matter how slight, to the individual.
Anyone from any part of the world can have a say in the operating of Ebbsfleet United.
New media was the key in this, allowing people to be connected with each other, and without the Internet it's hard to see how this could have taken place.
Yet another way in which new media has affected football.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
New Media Too Soon?
The new media has changed the way football is broadcast, but is it too soon to use the Internet exclusively to show football matches?
In October last year, the World Cup 2010 qualifier match between England and Ukraine was only shown in the UK on the Internet, through a stream that viewers had to pay to see on Ukraine v England.com.
I think this was a potentially revolutionizing move, possibly changing the way football is viewed in the world, but it was marred by technical problems like slow, buffering streams and poor video quality.
I feel that this was an interesting step for new media football broadcasts, but technical issues will likely always be present and at the end of the day, many people want to watch matches on the comfort of their sofas or in bars and pubs, rather than just over a cramped monitor.
An interesting idea, but ultimately, perhaps a failed venture for football in new media.
In October last year, the World Cup 2010 qualifier match between England and Ukraine was only shown in the UK on the Internet, through a stream that viewers had to pay to see on Ukraine v England.com.
I think this was a potentially revolutionizing move, possibly changing the way football is viewed in the world, but it was marred by technical problems like slow, buffering streams and poor video quality.
I feel that this was an interesting step for new media football broadcasts, but technical issues will likely always be present and at the end of the day, many people want to watch matches on the comfort of their sofas or in bars and pubs, rather than just over a cramped monitor.
An interesting idea, but ultimately, perhaps a failed venture for football in new media.
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