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Jurgen Klinsmann – likes FootballFilter
“For those of us who struggle to organize our visits to websites, blogs, podcasts and video sites this ‘dashboard’ helps organize favorites in a efficient way.” – Jurgen Klinsmann on FootballFilter via his ‘favourites” page http://www.klinsmann.com/favorites/
As a German, he knows all about efficiency so I’ll take his words as gospel. I wonder if he actually did the links page himself….?
Digest Twitter Better
We at FootballFilter spend a lot of time on Twitter. We have also accumulated a lot of people to follow. Yesterday I discovered paper.li which allows you to make a newspaper of all the links and videos that have been posted by the people you follow. Check out FootballFilter’s newspaper page here:
http://paper.li/footballfilter
If you make one post it in the comments section so we can take a look – doesn’t have to be football related!
We want your opinion. Help us make FootballFilter better.
We’re looking to develop footballfilter and make it better for the people that use it every day.
We were hoping that you might be able to help us. We have devised a feedback form that we were hoping some of you lovely people would fill out for us so we can plan our next developments and make sense of what people actually think is important.
If you have a spare 2 minutes please fill in our survey https://thinktag.wufoo.com/forms/quick-survey/
Thanks and enjoy the World Cup. Come on football do a goal.
World Cup 2010
So the World Cup is so bloody close I can barely contain my excitement. Anyone going?
We have made a World Cup page but were hoping our loyal users might be able to suggest some sites/podcasts/photo or video feeds that we should consider adding to it.
Take a look so far and feel free to get in touch if you have any suggestions:
http://www.footballfilter.com/world-cup-2010
Also, as mentioned on previous posts, please take a look at our side site http://answers.footballfilter.com – post questions and share trivia on the world of football
New side project – answers.footballfilter.com
Bit of an experiment/side project for footballfilter here. Inspired by http://stackoverflow.com/ we want to provide a platform for football fans to post questions, share trivia/knowledge all on the topic of football. If anyone is interested in getting involved feel free to sign up and post a question and let us know what you think.
Filter Focus February 12th
A new weekly look at one of the week’s big stories, with football journalist Will Wainewright.
Are Arsenal really out of the title race this time?
Monday’s Game podcast came hot on the heels of Arsenal’s defeats to Manchester United and Chelsea, and journalists from The Times agreed that the Gunners’ title hopes were all but over, revising their chances of Premier League glory this year down to around 5%.
It is a view with which few in football would disagree. Arsene Wenger’s men may have lasted longer in this title race than many expected but the two defeats, which left them nine points adrift of Chelsea on Sunday, have been characterised as fatal to their chances. The familiar deficiencies in Wenger’s approach – an excessive faith in youth over experience, a lack of investment and poor defending – have been trundled out for public examination once more. Calls for the head of ‘Le Professeur,’ which rise exponentially with each trophy-less season, gain traction.
However, haven’t we been here before?
One only has to go back to the start of December for the last time Arsenal were written off. Their chances were apparently ‘reeling’ after an emphatic 3-0 defeat by Chelsea left them eleven points adrift. That set the stage for an immense run of seven wins and three draws in the League before they came up short against United last week.
Such a run would have to be repeated and more for a remarkable comeback to take place. But how remarkable would it actually be? Even though last night’s results closed the gap to six points, it would still seem miraculous given the amount of coverage writing-off to Arsenal’s hopes.
But that coverage paints a misleading picture.
Despite coming up short against the top two in all four fixtures this season, Filter Focus research reveals the Gunners have fared as well as Chelsea against teams outside the top four this season, collecting 46 points. United have fared a few points better in this sense but have games against Liverpool, Chelsea and Man City to come.
The rush to write off Arsenal is an odd one. Even the bookies have reduced them to sub-outsider status of 10/1. But if they can maintain that form during the remaining twelve games of a vastly undemanding run-in, there is every chance they will end up well in the mix come May. That may be unlikely given United’s burst of form, but it is still more likely than the football media consensus would have us believe. No one should write off ‘Le Prof’ just yet.
All League One team pages now made!
It seems having a back injury can sometimes leave you quite bored, so I have just finished making all the league one team pages. If you support one of these many teams please let us know what you think of the page and what is missing or could be improved.
It interesting how some teams really have very little content or in some case even very few websites, I was quite surprised. I also noticed that the new official websites that have been created for each team are (not only exactly the same but with different colours) incredibly shit!
Championship team pages are now up!
Just a quick note to say we have now created team pages for all the championship pages – its been a long time coming but I am glad to say it is finally done. Please give us a feedback on your team’s page if you are not satisfied. And feel free to use our support request link if you want a team page made, or email us at the usual address.
Won an award from When Saturday Comes
We are proud to announce that we received an silver web award from the brilliant When Saturday Comes magazine. Check out the article here: http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/4195/38/