Introduction
Welcome to the Spirit of Football Press Resources page. Here you will find a selection of downloadable files which are listed below, as well as descriptions of coverage that this project has already had further down the page.
Downloads
The Ball in Business Day
15/7/2010
Download (494 KB)
The Ball 2010 Project Details
6/11/2009
Download (2 MB)
The Ball 2010 Leaflet
6/6/2009
Download (356 KB)
Project History
11/7/2008
Download (1 MB)
The Ball on FIFA.com in 2002 (German)
7/7/2008
Download (368 KB)
2010 Coverage
Television
- BBC Sport
- HBS
- RTL Nieuws (Netherlands)
- E-TV Sportsfan (South Africa)
- NBC Breakfast (Namibia)
- ZANIS (Zambia)
- TBC (Tanzania)
- Citizen TV (Kenya)
- WDR: Zeiglers wunderbare Welt des Fußball's (Germany - start at 15min)
- Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (Germany - start at 21min)
- Sky News
- Sky Sports News
- BBC News (1)
- BBC News (2)
- BBC News (3)
- CBBC
- ITN (1)
- ITN (2)
- ABCNews (Australia)
- YouTube (general)
- YouTube (general)
Radio
- BBC Five Live
- Base FM (Namibia)
- QFM (Zambia)
- QFM (Zambia)
- BBC World Service Sportsworld
- talkSPORT
- Heart Radio Oxfordshire
- West Sound
- Radio Frei (Germany)
Newspapers & Magazines
- Business Day (South Africa)
- New Era (Namibia)
- Daily Champion (Nigeria)
- AllAfrica.com
- Metro
- Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
- Times Online
- The Sun
- Press Association
- Daily Mirror
- Die Presse (Germany)
- The Aucklander (New Zealand)
- YTN (Korea)
- Milton Keynes News
- News Lite
- Morley Observer
- FourFourTwo
- The Daily Herald
- The Guardian
- Thüringer Allgemeine (Germany)
- Tottenham Hotspur Newsletter
Internet
- CBC (Canada)
- Federation Beninoise de Football
- Namibian Broadcasting Corporation
- Balls for Africa
- La Tribuna Deportiva (Honduras)
- UK Sport
- TTKN
- Lenasia Indicator
- Mentioned by Twitter
- Walvis Bay Council (Namibia)
- Deutsche Botschaft Lilongwe
- UK Zambians
- ZNBC (Zambia)
- QFM (Zambia)
- Sufiani Mafoto (Tanzania)
- Full Shangwe (Tanzania)
- The Safari Journal
- Nigerian Tribune
- The Daily African
- Guaranty Bank Press Release (Nigeria)
- Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (Germany)
- El Pais (Costa Rica)
- sportanddev.org
- B-Listed
- The Times (Malawi)
- SportsDay (Nigeria)
- Kiki and Lala
- Really New Media
- Creativity Online
- Eurosport
- IOL Portugal
- Manchester Today
- Reuters
- All Africa
- African Football 2010
- Times Live (South Africa)
- Malaysian Insider
- Asylum (Italy)
- Talk Talk News
- England Night
- Dawn.com
- HLN (Belgium)
- Fun Kids Live
- Big Pond News
- The Point (Gambia)
- Mpelembe Network
- Realitatea (Romania)
- Pocketburgers
- Inside World Soccer
- Que.es (Spain)
- Footmercado (France)
- Sport Mediaset (Italy)
- The Offside
- Football Fans Census
- Sify
- CNN
- Rot-Weiss Erfurt News (Germany)
- Visit London
- Ted Baker Blog
- Sports Doing Good
- Politopolis (Germany)
- Bet72
- Optimist World
2006 Coverage
Television
Sky Sports News
broadcast Sunday, 11th December 2005
Radio
BBC Radio 4
Guests on Excess Baggage, presented by Sandi Toksvig. Broadcast Sunday, 4th June 2006. Archived BBC page here. You can listen to it on this page in the 2006 blog.
Newspapers
The Guardian (UK)
archived blog entry summarising our 2006 trip
FOCUS (Germany)
Fussball statt olympische Fackel
Battersea Park coverage and anticipation in this archived online entry
Thüringer Landeszeitung (Germany)
article about our project and our proposed visit to the city of Erfurt
Thüringer Allgemeine (Germany)
article about our project and our proposed visit to the city of Erfurt
Internet
BBC World Cup Blog
Seeking Serendipity
we love the comments people left on the blog entry
Guardian World Cup Blog
Coverage of the 2006 launch in this Comment is Free blog entry
Global Game
featured in this football culture blog
2002 Coverage
Television
CNN
interviewed by Tim Lister at Seoul stadium, broadcast Sunday, 16th June 2002
ITN/Carlton
3 minute item about the Battersea Park game on London Tonight
BBC
interviewed by the Six O'Clock News team outside the Opening Ceremony
Radio
African Soccer (unconfirmed)
report of our travels by South African radio station
BBC Radio 5 Live
Friday 31 May, interviewed by Nicky Campbell and Pat Nevin
BBC Radio 5 Live Rated 8th in Simon Mayo's list of Top Ten World Cup websites
Newspapers
Moscow Times
Photo-shoot in Red Square and article
Korea Herald
front page article Saturday, 8 June 2002
The Chosun Ilbo
article in Korean national daily published Sunday, 16th June 2002; feature article published the following Wednesday
The Guardian
featured in back page article published Monday, 17th June 2002
The Brighton Argus
feature article
Western Daily Press
feature article
Internet
FIFA
featured in German version of the Official website
FIFA
featured on Friday, June 7 2002 in their Photo Gallery
Ananova
Coverage of our journey
The Guardian Online
featured on Wednesday, June 12 2002 in their World Cup blog
Rediff Guide to the Net
featured in review of football-related weblogs
This Is Eastbourne
featured in local news section
UEFA
video interview by Mark Tompkins. Click on "Mark Tompkins explores Daejon ahead of Spain's match against South Africa" to see the video.
PlanetGoGo.net
featured in their review of World Cup weblogs
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