(Not The) FIFA Rankings
Posted on July 3, 2010 | Filed under: News | Tags: footie | Add a Comment »
…Something more important than that. These are the ones from Wikio – and more specifically the top 30 football blogs in which Football and Music appears.
Wikio…?
Wikio is an information portal with a news search engine that searches press sites and blogs.
With Wikio you can very easily create pages to follow the breaking news that interests you. Our info is continuously updated!
Wikio is a participative service: you can publish an article directly on the site or comment on an existing item.
You can also vote for an article or a group that captures your interest in order to increase its visibility on the site.
Each page offers an RSS feed that allows you to subscribe to receive the information that appears there in the reader of your choice.
I also got a message from Matthieu at Wikio the other week and he informed me that F&M was in the top 100 European football blogs too.
But more importantly – the numbers for the top 30 UK football blogs for July 2010:
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Hmm…where I am…? Ah there – down three. Down three…?!
I demand that the maFIFA make an inquiry into this blatant (blogging version of a) handball !!
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England Wallpaper
Posted on June 7, 2010 | Filed under: News | Tags: England, WorldCup | Add a Comment »
There’s been lots of searches for England (desktop) wallpaper with people finding these from 2006.
I’ve decided to make a couple of new ones for this World Cup which you can find below.
(To save on bandwidth these are on Flickr & TinyPic. Just click on the image to view/set as wallpaper.)
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 1280×800 |
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Any requests ? Leave them in the comments:
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Our Summer With Des…
Posted on May 22, 2010 | Filed under: Music, News, Predicts | Tags: WorldCup2010 | 1 Comment »
Signups now CLOSED. This here for information only.
The regular readers know what it is, but for anybody new here…
The prediction league does exactly as it says on the name: You try to predict the final result on all the matches being played in the World Cup.
The league is open for signups from now and will CLOSE before it all kicks off on Friday June 11th.
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A Quick Guide…
-> THE PREDICTIONS:
- How to enter your predictions:
When you are signed in - Click on “My Predictions”.
You will then see a list of all the matches being played that week.
(I’ve split it into weeks so that there will be a weekly winner)
Enter in what you think the result will be and click on the “Predict” button.
If you’ve selected the option in your profile you will receive an email confirming your predictions.
-> Because we know exactly who is playing and when, you can click on “My Missing Predictions” and enter in a result for ALL the matches. This will guarantee that you will not miss any of the games and you can come back later to change them if you like.
-> THE POINTS – HOW DOES THAT WORK ?
You earn points by predicting the outcome correctly.
- If you predict a correct result – ie: You enter 2-1 and the result is 1-nil, you will get 3 points.
- If you predict a correct score – ie: You enter 3-0 and the result is 3-0 you will get an extra 2 points.
So if you get the right result and score you get 5 points. (3 for result, 2 for score).
» More info here.
-> WHAT DO POINTS MAKE…?
At the moment there are no prizes and for now you are just playing for the pride.
UPDATE: We are scrounging a few things together which will be offered to the prize winner. At the moment we have an mp3 (& video) player, USB flash drive, a few DVD’s and some tat from Tesco’s !
Still looking for more so the question below remains:
» Do you work for a company that has something to promote ? Footie and Music is happy to be sponsored by… for this prediction league if you can offer whatever you are pushing as a prize. Please contact us here.
-> WHAT IF I FORGET TO DO MY PREDICTIONS ?
Tough.
As mentioned we know exactly who is playing and when. If you think that you might not be able to access the site during the tournament click on “My Missing Predictions” & do your numbers.
If you miss out then you miss out. Deal with it.
-> Additionally: There’s always a few that sign up at the start and then don’t do their numbers, or there’s some that do a few at the beginning and then don’t come back. I will do a cull of these deadbeats after the group stages and after each knockout stages. If you don’t think that you will see out the whole tournament then don’t sign up.
-> WHAT IF I DON’T WANT TO PLAY ANY MORE ?
If you are pouting because you are not instantly in the top half of the table and want to jack it in, then that’s your choice. You can delete yourself from the league by clicking on your profile and entering in your password and pressing the button at the bottom.
*Other Bits*
Once you’ve signed up you should automatically be a member of the Prediction League. Keep an eye on the left hand menu for a message, if it tells you that you are not a member of the league – click on “My Profile”, look for the “Joined Leagues” section and check to see if there is a tick in the box. If not check it and click “Join League”. Also while you are in there you can set a default score – on that will be applied to all your predictions – BUT ONLY IF YOU HIT THE PREDICT BUTTON.
*Icons*
There’s a selection of icons that you can use. These icons can be seen by other players .
If you want to chance your current icon then click on the image (when you are logged in) and you will be taken to the icon gallery. Select a new one by simply clicking on that image.
- If you want to use your own icon then send a pic to me via the contact form.
…and then listen to some music:
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» The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (7 inch)
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» The 1986 ITV World Cup Theme
» More themes
» » Even more themes
…Oh and yes I know that it should be ‘An Evening With… because that was the World Cup and not ‘My Summer With…’ because that was the European Championships, but I prefer the company of dishy Des rather than lug eared Lineker.
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Back The Bid
Posted on April 13, 2010 | Filed under: Music, News, Video | Tags: England, WorldCup2018 | Add a Comment »
I'm busy with work elsewhere this week, so please bear with me...
Got this email last Thursday but it’s taken me until now to get around to actually posting something.
Because of the company involved, (I was never fond on BT when I was in Blighty and the irony now being that my phone service provider here is via another monopoly). Plus the fact that we don’t do adverts on Footie and Music (it’s pronounced the same way Trev & Simon used to: “We don’t do duvets !”)…I was initially reluctant to post something, but because of the cause they are promoting I’m in.
“… I want to let you know about what’s happening with the World Cup 2018 bid. As you probably already know England is hoping to host the 2018 World Cup and it needs the support of the nation to help make it a reality.
From today (Thursday 8 April) people across the country are being asked by the official sponsors, BT Vision, to sign a ‘digital flag’ with either their name or photo at www.bt.com/2018 (or text “BT Vision and name” to 62018) – which will then be presented as part of ‘the package’ offered to FIFA in May,
England striker, Peter Crouch, joined 1966 World Cup winner, Geoff Hurst and official sponsors BT at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday to be the first people to show their support for the bid – signing their name with ‘digital light graffiti’ on a massive flag projected onto the side of the stadium, now Peter Crouch has made a video asking footie fans across England to sign-up too:
Three days after this mail the Beancrouch bottled it on the cabbage patch up Empire Way.
As we’ve seen the suits are doing their best to feck it all up, but despite all that as we always do every four years – we live in hope. The World Cup has got to come home at least one more time in my lifetime.
As it says above you can go to that website and “digitally sign” the flag – that costs you nothing.
Some promotional images:
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- Another place to go and get more info is at: www.england2018bid.com, which has downloads such as an iPhone app (which is free) and some desktop wallpaper. There’s also the usual social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr – where they are trying to shoot themselves in the foot by getting those well respected figures of Lovejoy and Boris to show their support…
But let’s rise above all that and…Back The Bid.
- A reward for you for taking a moment to show your support with the music used in that above clip:
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The Guardian Will Guide You
Posted on August 7, 2009 | Filed under: News | Tags: footie | Add a Comment »
As you may have noticed I don’t have any adverts on here. I will add a link to a site on the Links page but apart from that no ads. I have a: “If they come knocking at your door trying to sell you something you don’t want it” policy. Another reason being is that every other site you visit is full of them and I wanted this place to be, as much as possible, commercial free.
(Of course this will change if F&M ever becomes too popular for me to support it financially, I’ll then shill for anybody who will give me a shiny penny.)
Occasionally though I will break my own rule if is for something that I would be purchasing myself (such as Kasabian’s new album) and another instance has come up in the form of my regular (online) read The Grauniad.
Yes that’s right I open admit it, I am a Guardian reader. Deal with it.
They contacted me the other day to let me know about The Season which is a free guide that you’ll find with Monday’s (August 10th, 2009) paper:
The Season is the Guardian’s ultimate guide to the new football season and is free with the paper on Monday 10 August. As well as providing you with essential team-by-team information, the Season, also offers readers some off-the-wall and interesting critiques on the football league’s top teams. This all comes in a handy guide size, small enough to take to the terraces, but large enough to satisfy your appetite for endless stats and rumours.
Highlights include:
Manchester United without Ronaldo
- Manchester City’s prospects after spending almost £100m in the summer
- Rafael Benitez, Liverpool’s history and their need for the title
- Foreign players’ experiences in England focusing on Wigan’s Roberto Martinez
- World Cup qualifying clips and great World Cup clichés
- Newcastle’s chances of getting out of a tough Championship
- Carlo Ancelotti’s Twitter page
- The Michael Owen-style brochures you might have missed
- The possible shift in power from the Premier League to La Liga
- ESPN and the BBC’s involvement in showing live football
- A funny look at the new and very complicated Europa League
- Uefa’s experiment with five referees per match
Also, Featured:
Premier League team-by-team guide and previews of the Championship/League One/League Two and the Scottish Premier League
So as the Fiver sez, form an orderly queue there on Monday morning.
If I wasn’t a British Expat now living in the USA, I would be joining you in that queue.
So I asked if I could be sent a sample and they were good enough to email something over – Which I’m letting you have a sneak peek. I know there are many other expatriated fitba fans who visit F&M and I’m sure that they would want to have a look as well:
» Download the PDF file here 
(2.4MB)
Additionally…
AC Jimbo and chums are back in the studio and have done their first warm up match podcast in which they discuss the upcoming season.
I’ve mirrored it here – for a limited time (the file is 45megs !) and you can listen or download below:
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Prediction League 2009-10
Posted on August 1, 2009 | Filed under: Music, News, Predicts | Tags: Predicts, Spurs | Add a Comment »
[UPDATE] The Saint & Greavsie Prediction League: 2009-2010 Season
is now CLOSED for new signups. This is here for info only.
No endorsement is implied by the above individuals
The new footie season is fast approaching but like the rest of you I’m not quite ready yet. It’s still sunny outside (well…at least where I am..) and it’s still the time for holidays.
This is why unlike other fantasy football or prediction leagues we start later. Plus there are some of you out there who realise that the season has begun and found that it’s too late to sign up for other compo’s.
But the biggest reason is that (if you’ve done this before) it is a very long season. It goes on for 8 months y’know. So we here at Football and Music ease you into it and give you time to watch some matches and to warm up for the marathon ahead.
Those of you who have been around know what it is, but for those of you new to the place – The prediction league is exactly that. You try to guess what the final result will be.
This new season will begin on SATURDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER 2009 at 3pm and will end at final whistle of the FA Cup Final in May 2010. Signups are open from now and will CLOSE before kick off of the international matches on Sept 5th.
» The Prediction League is a DONATE TO PLAY one. BUT you don’t have to donate if you don’t want.
ANOTHER BUT: In order to be eligible for the Prize Pot you have to chip something in. Suggested donation is $10 or £10 or 10€ [depending on where you are] but you can donate as much or as little as you like. The amount will be converted into U.S. Dollars. - Why ?
Don’t forget that even with us starting late, the season is still 8 months long. It means that you have to make sure that you’ve logged in and do your numbers EVERY WEEK. (We try to enter in the fixtures up to 4 weeks in advance, but sometimes it is not possible.
» There’s more guff after the jump, but for now here’s a quick musical break…
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» Jimmy Greaves & the 1967 Spurs Squad – Strollin’
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» S&G Theme (also the 1986 ITV World Cup Theme)
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» Johnny Pearson – Heavy Action (Theme from Superstars)
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