Irish Times website advertises English football coverage — on an English football site

October 10, 2008 in General
Tags: barstoolers, google, Premiership, Times

The Irish Times’s singularly England-centred approach to football coverage has become even more blatant. Spotted today, on the guardian.co.uk Sport Blog, is another of those oddly-phrased, semi-literate Google ads for ireland.com.

How deep is your love… of Spurs?

October 6, 2008 in General
Tags: barstoolers, blogs, Premiership, Spurs

We are in the age of the net. The possibilities are endless. We can publish anything we want, free of the constraints of big media, advertising, and the global football industry. What do we do? Well, just in case the English Premiership doesn’t get enough column inches and airtime elsewhere, some of us [...]

Celtic and the British Conservatives

October 5, 2008 in General
Tags: barstoolers, Celtic, Conservatives, owners, Premiership, spl

The connection to Scotland’s Celtic FC sees another twist in today’s Sunday Business Post report of a contribution to the Tories by club part-owner Dermot Desmond.

Gael Gooners?

October 5, 2008 in General
Tags: arsenal, barstoolers, blogs, Premiership

Question: why is Arseblog featured in irishblogs.ie, which says it is ‘what Ireland is saying right now’? Yes, yes, there’s Liam Brady, Dave O’Leary and all that, but when last checked Arsenal were still firmly rooted in north London.