Football Media

[Justified logic]

[potterwec]

Hello Man City Fans!

I hope you don't mind me using your forum for purposes of research, but it is a fascinating topic and I am seeking fans who use football forums to unearth the state of football spectatorship and community in the modern era.

I am an Events Management MSc student from the University West of England and I am currently writing a thesis analysing how well new digital, social and broadcast media outlets replicate the experience of attending a football match.

I am in the process of contacting bloggers, forum contributors and key opinion-formers for Premier League football teams and am writing to you in the hope that a Man City fan might be interested in answering a few questions to help inform my research.

If there is anybody who has a spare 5-10 minutes to answer a few questions, I would be very grateful and happy to provide a blog/article/details of my thesis and research back to your site.

Please let me know if this might be a possibility.

Many thanks,
Will Potter

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[potterwec]

Think you might be spot on with that description ahah. If anyone is up for answering a few more questions, I would be eternally grateful!

1. How old are you?

2. Where do you live?

3. What football team do you support in the UK?

4. How often do you attend a live football match?

5. Do broadcast media outlets (e.g. Sky Sports, BT Sport) manage to replicate or enhance the experience of attending a live football match?

6. Describe the level of connection you feel to the team you are watching? Has this changed over your lifetime?

7. Do you interact online with other fans/spectators? If so, when (before/during/after a game) and what do you gain from this?

8. Can the sense of community of the ‘traditional spectator’ be replicated without travelling to the stadium and watching their team? E.g. At a pub, online, or on TV.

9. Do you tend to (and prefer to) watch football with other people?

10. How do you feel when watching the game on your chosen platform?

11. Does a constant stream of consumer material online help or hinder your football community?

12. Do you try to watch football games live? Does your intensity / interest change when watching a highlights programme or catch-up service?

13. Do new football-focused digital, social and broadcast media outlets help to provide you with a sense of community and well-being?

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[PrezIke]

http://www.espnfc.us/english-premier-le ... -in-august

This is what happens when a media source isn't focused on a primarily English audience.

Based on what you read and hear elsewhere you'd think this writer lost his mind to not talk about Mourinho's job so far in Pep's place.

[Justified logic]

[Mase]

[nottsblue]

Anyone else see the story that Mino Raiola made €30m from the sale of three players to the rags this summer? Imagine if that was us?

[Mikhail Chigorin]

[Justified logic]

[johnny crossan]

[nottsblue]

[Original Dub]

The mirror. Again. And again.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... ns-8762070

[nottsblue]

[Beefymcfc]

I'm not clicking that shit, that's how they make their money.

[Dameerto]

For anyone with a twitter account who might be feeling a bit bored, that article was written by @AndyDunn_SM
Just thought I'd mention it...

[Beefymcfc]

I bet he'll be on SS now spouting his bile.

[johnny crossan]

Same old same old, Hen Noddle slagging off Sterling - best player on the pitch, praising the totally toothless Lallana for running about, Crimson Clive on Joe's case - we await a mistake from Stones for the full corruption chorus - here we go he's given away a foul....

[Dameerto]