Wednesday, 15 August 07, 08:27 PM
Two OleOle Bloggers have been offered the chance to attend the preview screening in London of a new football film called "IN THE HANDS OF THE GODS". It looks like an excellent film, and is based around dreams and passion in football, and 5 street footballers using their skills to raise
enough money to go and see their idol Diego Maradona.
It's going to be on Tuesday, August 21st in London, so if you're interested, then get in touch now!
Thursday, 09 August 07, 08:15 PM
Just wanted to let you guys know about our presence on those other sites, we're still trying to make sure that everybody knows where to come for their football fix.
If you're a MySpace user, add us at: http://www.myspace.com/oleolefootball
If you're on Facebook, check us out and send us a request at: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=82834042
We've also got a group on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2258798103
And you can use Facebook's event feature to confirm whether you're playing our Fantasy game, and even invite your friends: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=4062107956
See you all soon!
Wednesday, 08 August 07, 06:16 PM
Well, why not? This might be a fun weekly thing to do. So... welcome to the inaugural Footbollocks Quiz.
This week's (slightly England-centric) questions:
1. Which Norwegian has played more Premiership games than any of his countrymen?
2. Which South American footballer has won the most Premiership titles?
3. Which former French international has won more top-level silverware than any of his compatriots?
4. In the last decade, at least 3 pairs of brothers have plied their trade in the German Bundesliga, at the same clubs. Name them.
Enjoy!
And if you'd like to contribute any questions, just send me a message via OleOle with your bit of trivia. It's going to be hard work coming up with questions every week!
Friday, 08 June 07, 09:19 PM
Just thought i'd post to see what kind of football injuries people on here had picked up.
In my last 5-a-side game, my continued stubbornness to not wear shinpads finally came to bite me in the... shins. One of the blades on the underside of someone's shoes punctured my shin, which has subsequently gotten infected and now I am on antibiotics. Great joy! Definitely something different to the usual knocks, kicks and sprains that i'm accustomed to.
So what do you guys have to add?
Friday, 20 April 07, 07:08 PM
Hello,
Looks like there's been a lot of new signups of late, so I just thought I'd say hello and give you guys a little bit of insight into the direction the site is taking.
We're basically a football fan community (that much i'm sure you all know) that's trying to combine all the ways in which fans interact, and put them together in one great big splatch of
footballiness - so you have blogs , you have comments, you have our social network and profiles , and the "Throw-Ins" , which are a digg style system where you submit interesting links you might
have found elsewhere.
We've also got forums coming soon (i'm sure you're all wondering why such a basic element is missing), as well as video and photo galleries for the users to submit to, and user groups - so everyone
can band up and discuss and argue and whateve else.
Lastly, on the non-community side of things we've got our "Scouts" , which I personally think are very cool - you can basically
choose the teams and players than you want to track, and you'll get newsfeeds from around the web related to them. Note that it's still early days and we're working on improving the system and
making it much much better, and any feedback from you would be invaluable.
Then there's the Live Scores , which although they might seem a bit confusing, are very quickly updated and cover more leagues than most
places. Tip (since people get confused), click the + sign to see details about goalscorers, yellow cards, subs and so on.
There's also our very Oirish-flavoured podcast, where you can leave comments, suggestions and questions, and
coming this summer is our quite grand fantasy football game which lets you pick players from the top leagues in England, Spain, Italy, France and Germany, and/or lets you play each of those as
domestic leagues if you like. So yes, lot's on the horizon.
We're also redesigning the site, and building mini-sites for all the clubs and competitions, so you can choose how you want to interact, where, and at what levels. "Coming Soon!" is the name of the
game right now.
So anyways, we hope you stick around, and if you have any questions, comments, feedback or anything like that, then just send me a message or leave a comment. Seriously,
this is a community for the fans, so the feedback we get from you guys helps make it a better experience for you.
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