Websites, products and services (all related to football) reviewed on Soccerlens.com
It’s one of those things that becomes obvious with hindsight - that brands don’t necessarily make football shoes good for your feet and that you need to extensively test football boots before committing yourself to them in a proper game to minimise any injury risk.
Written by Ahmed Bilal. 4 comments
Following on from the launch of the SX Flare boot, Umbro have now released an ‘England‘ edition of the SX Flare and SX Valor. If you watch the television closely tonight, you’ll see John Terry wearing the Valor and Michael Owen wearing the Flare, as England take on France in the Stade de France in Paris.
Will ‘the perfect boot for today’s fast paced game’ keep France out at one end and score the goals for England at the other? We’ll have to wait and see.
I have not approached John Terry for a quote about the boots as he would no doubt claim to be busy!
Football boot manufacturers Umbro have launched a brand new boot. The SX Flare is described by the manufacturers as “The perfect boot for today’s fast paced game”.
Top stars who are wearing the boot include Newcastle and England striker Michael Owen, Everton and Australia star Tim Cahill and Rangers and Scotland captain Barry Ferguson.
Umbro tell us that the boot has been designed using innovative Michelin technology. I thought about writing that the players will have to tread carefully and avoid getting too tyred, but decided against it!
Written by Graham Fisher. Leave a response
The Football Formation Sketcher tool allows you to do everything from plot your world-dominating Football Manager squad, to putting together lineups for your Sunday League matches, to aiding your match reports.
Written by Eddie Griffin. Leave a response
While some of us are just big dreamers, there are a few who actually do have the talent to sign that dream contract with one of the world’s top clubs. But, not everyone has the chance to catch the eye of that scout from Manchester United, Real Madrid, or even Blackpool.
Well, that may have been the case, but this is where Next Soccer Star steps in.
Written by Eddie Griffin. 2 comments
The Schmap Premier League widget allows sport fanatics to spice up their website or blog with the latest results from their favorite team, and contrary to its name, provides a lot more outside of the EPL.
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If you’re running short on gift ideas for an upcoming birthday, look like the most thoughtful person in the world (what did you do?!), or get a jump on your own Christmas wish list, you’re in luck, because Getting Personal likely has what you’re looking for.
Written by Eddie Griffin. One comment
BetUKnow is a Soccerlens advertiser.
BetUknow is a totally free fantasy prediction game, with over 1000 British Pounds in real monthly prizes from Amazon UK.
BetUknow is the place where football bettors join to share their knowledge of the Premiership and other continental competitions, such as the Champions League.
Online virtual betting portal BetUKnow (www.betuknow.co.uk) has today taken the step to unveil some of the secrets that high street bookies keep up their sleeves. We all know that bookies have them, favorite bets, money making football teams and sure fire winners for instance, but like the ‘magic circle’ those secrets will never be told. Until now!!
The info bookies don’t want you to know is:
Written by Ahmed Bilal. One comment
For the last few years, football gamers who wanted an authentic football experience on their consoles had only one name to turn to, and that was Winning Eleven. There was hardly any debate in the matter. Winning Eleven have been widely regarded by critics and gamers alike to be the superior of the two.
Gamers loyal to the FIFA series might disagree. And to be fair, FIFA have been making significant improvements to their series, but still, they have always fell short.
Written by Kenny. 11 comments
CanBet.com is a Football Media advertiser.
Canbet has left the competition in its wake with the introduction of its new revolutionary live football betting service.
Punters now have access to Live ‘In-Play’ Football Betting on over 500 global games each week, as well as the most comprehensive selection of Asian Handicap markets in the world.
Canbet’s Live ‘In-Play’ Betting coverage extends across every niche of professional football competition, from all major leagues in Europe and the Americas to minor leagues in Japan and Mexico. The service is all encompassing, including a wide range of bet types.
Written by Eddie Griffin. Leave a response
Online Betting Guide is a new advertiser on Soccerlens (to advertise your website, please see this page) - here’s an overview of their website and what they offer.
Online Betting Guide (OLBG) gives you the chance to win real money by betting with fantasy money. You can use your fantasy money to tip on most sports including Football, Horse Racing, Basketball, Golf, Tennis and many more. There are over 200 prizes and 1700 pounds of prizemoney a month can be won. Its completely free to enter!
For football fans there are individual competitions for many countries and even for different types of bets. At the end of each month everyone can see your position in the league, you can become well known and build up a loyal following through your sporting knowledge.
Written by Ahmed Bilal. 4 comments
GameBasics are Soccerlens advertisers and partners - to advertise your website on Soccerlens, get started here.
After many protests, UEFA finally saw the light, and allowed a do-over in the qualifiers. England and Russia were asked to play once more in a tiebreaker in Moscow, to once and for all determine which team was more worthy to move on.
Written by Ahmed Bilal. 6 comments
Goalwire is a new advertiser on Soccerlens (to advertise your website, please see this page) and a Soccerlens partner - here’s an overview of their website and what they offer.
Goalwire is the world’s leading livescore site with scores, statistics and league tables from over 50 coutries, in 12 different sports.
The sports coverage extends from Basketball and Football (Soccer) to Handball, Tennis, Ice Hockey, plus a few more, and their site is available in over 10 languages (including English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, and Estonian).
Their homepage displays current results, with a list of all matches for the day, as well as a tab which gives you the option to display only the matches being played at the moment, or the matches played later that week.
You can also select to display Statistics and Tables by Sport and League, in a very convenient drop-down menu that is extremely fast to load. And get this: statistics are not limited to the top league of each country, but also lower divisions (from the English Conference through to the Italian Serie C2, all the way to the Swedish 3rd Division Södra Götaland, whatever that is 
).
Written by Marco Pantanella. Leave a response
SoccerPro is a new advertiser on Soccerlens (to advertise your website, please see this page) - here’s an overview of their website and what they offer.
SoccerPro is a leading authority for soccer gear and training. As advertised on their website, the company “strives to provide the finest soccer equipment available, and seeks to promote the enjoyment of soccer by helping soccer players of all levels play better soccer”. They will “provide a quality product with the best knowledge in the field of soccer, and offer our products & services at times & locations that are convenient for their customers, while at the same time “providing an environment friendly to the first time soccer player and knowledgeable to the seasoned athlete“.
That’s for the sales pitch, but what is SoccerPro really all about?
Written by Marco Pantanella. Leave a response
SquadGod.com a.k.a one of Soccerlens’s advertising partners and also the ultimate fantasy football site, today added a monthly game option to its existing gameplay formats. SquadGod advertises itself as the only fully customisable fantasy football game available, and now lets players and fantasy managers set-up games running in a monthly format, allowing players to field a new team every month.
Monthly games work exactly like standard, season-long games, but at the end of every month your points re-set back to zero, and you get given 11 free transfers to select an entirely new team for the month ahead. Not only is this great for mid-season leagues, and players who got off to bad start to the season, but also it offers website owners, football bloggers and sports related media businesses the opportunity to set-up their own leagues with monthly winners and prizes.
Written by Marco Pantanella. Leave a response
Besides perennial irrelevance on the world stage, there are three things us football fans from the Third World can look forward to each year: decrepit stadium seats, cheap-looking replica jerseys and a bootleg copy of the latest installment in the Japanese Winning Eleven video game series by Konami Tokyo.
Written by Adam Mourad. 19 comments
Football fans prepare yourselves! The ultimate football manager simulation is back! Work will be left undone, dishes unwashed, beds not done, girlfriends and wives neglected. Yes, for the uninitiated, FM is really that addictive. I kid you not.
And it is with great difficulty, that I pry myself away from the game and present you here with the full game review of Football Manager 2008.
Written by Kenny. 9 comments
In an ideal world, live soccer games would take priority over everything else in life. You know that when your team is playing, things like work and other obligations just don’t seem nearly as important as knowing what the score is, and knowing what the score is right now. Unfortunately, your boss probably doesn’t agree.
Written by Jason Pereira. One comment
Many football fans don’t get to go to as many away games that they would like to- either because of the cost (who wants to spend that much money on a day trip when they can watch their club lose from the comfort of their tv lounge?), or simply because finding accommodation in and around the area is a pain. Now however, with the inception of MATCHHotels.com, football fans will have these troubles no longer.
MatchHotels.com director Ben Jackson tells the story:
“Fans want to support their teams but escalating ticket prices and travel expenses do not add up financially for 90 short minutes of action. When fans can combine an away game with a weekend away the economics make more sense and teams get more travelling support.”
So I guess the first question here is (for all you UK-based fans): would you visit more away games if you could turn it into a weekend away?
Written by Ahmed Bilal. Leave a response
Footy 24/7 is a new advertiser on Soccerlens (to advertise your website, please see this page) and a Soccerlens partner - here’s an overview of their website and what they offer.
Footy24/7 is a football news portal currently covering the English Premier League. The homepage shows all stories for the premiership or you can filter by selecting your team on the right.
Upon selecting your team you can then view a selection of items:
Written by Ahmed Bilal. One comment
Do you think your club will win this weekend? Would you put money on it?
Written by Steve Nelson. Leave a response
I’ve known about Soccer Training Info for almost an year now, and while I’ve rare sought them out for training info (never had the need), I’ve turned to the site from time to time for picking up some classic videos, like the top 10 goals Eric Cantona scored for Manchester United.
John’s redesigned the site since then, turning the proverbial bucket o’ bolts into a intuitive, professional showcase of soccer training information. He asked me to review the site, so here we are - sorry if this is critical John, I never promised to say anything nice
Soccer Training Info focuses on offering training tips and ideas to youth football players and coaches. The site also has a section of highlight videos (the thing I like best about them, btw) and new sections on soccer nutrition, the psychological aspect of playing football and also some research on money in football.
Written by Ahmed Bilal. Leave a response
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If you’re interested in football betting (or odds in general - Azar and Jade, take note) then you’d like to read this offer by easyodds.com:
Written by Ahmed Bilal. 6 comments
