Football

Booting up: Footballers kick off GDPR case for 'misuse' of their performance data

Legal action aims to give players a say in how data about them is traded

Legal12 Oct 2021 | 30

Hate to break it to you, but football's not coming home if this AI pundit is to be believed

Delayed Euro 2020 championship will be won by the Czech Republic, and England will drop out in semi-finals (sounds legit)

AI + ML09 Jun 2021 | 10

Brit Salesforce exec Gavin Patterson becomes transfer target for controversial European Super League

Ex-BT boss is familiar with the football lifestyle – being paid millions for doing very little

Bootnotes19 Apr 2021 | 19

UK's NCSC reveals Premier League footie clubs to be ripe pickings for cybercrooks: One almost lost £1m to BEC attack

Switch on, urges GCHQ-backed public security agency

Security24 Jul 2020 | 10

Wide of the net: Football Association of Ireland says player, manager data safe after breach

It was a game of two halves

Security05 Jul 2019 | 10

We are Google, we are proud, English football is moving to our cloud

RotM Hot in that waistcoat, innit, Gareth Southgate?

AI + ML31 May 2019 | 14

Zavvi tells customers: You've won VIP tickets to Champions League final! And you've won tickets, and you've won tickets, and you, and...

Congratulations, Liverpool and Spurs fans! Wait... never mind

Bootnotes09 May 2019 | 34

UK footie fans furious as Sky Broadband goes TITSUP: Total inability to stream unfair penalties

Midlands users report service sucking on a half-time orange

Networks19 Jun 2018 | 58

Select few to watch World Cup in 4K high dynamic range colour on BBC iPlayer

All you need is access to 40Mbps and extreme masochistic tendencies

Personal Tech31 May 2018 | 65

Arsenal are red, pundits have 'insights', BT and Sky splurge £4.5bn on footie rights

It's all about the content, guys

On-Prem14 Feb 2018 | 23

NEWSFLASH Now even science* says moneybags footballers are overpaid

Bewilderingly, algo-crafting boffins fail to reference Reg standards

Bootnotes01 Aug 2017 | 77

Ex-West Ham winger charged twice over cybershenanigans

22-year-old to appear before magistrates at month's end

Bootnotes19 Apr 2017 | 6

NFL is No Fondleslab League: Top coach says he'd rather use pen and paper than Surface tab

Belichick says he's done with the Microsoft slab

Personal Tech18 Oct 2016 | 26

Ofcom cans Virgin Media's Premier League live footy match probe

Punters are now getting more matches so we've got better things to do, says regulator

Networks08 Aug 2016 | 14

Fancy hacking Man City? Happy days: Footy club to host hackathon

Moneyball-style data crunching applied to the beautiful game

Security29 Jun 2016 | 6

Q: Is it wrong to dress as a crusader for an England match?

BBC proves Betteridge's law, riles Daily Mail

Bootnotes07 Jun 2016 | 108

Catastrophic 123-reg VPS cockup deletes Ross County FC website

Biz admits coding error 'affected' thousands of servers

On-Prem19 Apr 2016 | 58

US beats Iran as Japan's tincan footie team wins robot World Cup

England team's early exit suggests tactical naivety will continue after robo-apocalypse

Bootnotes24 Jul 2015 | 8

Man hauled before beak for using drone to film Premiership matches

Thou shalt not fly thy aero-toy over the mighty Kop

Legal19 Mar 2015 | 68

'I don't NEED to pay' to watch football, thunders EU digi-czar

Bad news on the way for Sky Sports et al

Legal09 Dec 2014 | 61

Ofcom tackles complaint over Premier League footie TV rights

Virgin Media: UK fans pay the most for the fewest matches

Networks18 Nov 2014 | 44

Footie fracas: MYSTERY DRONE waves flag, incites Balkan brawl

UAV ripped from the air by furious Serb

Personal Tech15 Oct 2014 | 24

No Apple fanbois here: Man United BANS iPads from Old Trafford

Get your slabs out, get your slabs out, get your slabs out for the lads

Personal Tech13 Aug 2014 | 50

SAP: It was our Big Data software wot won it for Germany

Vorsprung durch grossendatatechnik, as we like to say in Germany

Channel22 Jul 2014 | 27

Soccer Football in SPAAACE! ISS 'naut nails zero-G bicycle kick

Video A leaping-layout goalie save in orbit? Much less painful than Marcelo's 'own goal'

Science12 Jun 2014 | 10

Balls to the World Cup: Brazuca wins in the wind

Robot kicker didn't bend it like Beckham

Bootnotes04 Jun 2014 | 13

Soccer's dull? A MIND-CONTROLLED robo-suit will be used to take first World Cup 2014 kick

Pic Checkmate, nerds

Science01 Apr 2014 | 27

Decent chance of your team winning the World Cup? You'll probably want to watch it

Survey: Germans, Brazilians 'most active' in search for World Cup tickets

Legal06 Dec 2013 | 3

Referee and two others charged in FA hacking probe

Offside?

Legal29 Nov 2013 | 4

'Best known female architect' angrily defends gigantic vagina

Muff comparisons 'nonsense', insists Zaha Hadid

Bootnotes25 Nov 2013 | 103

Cops: Bloke makes bet with wife. Wife loses - so hubby TASERS her

Wisconsin woman shocked after American football flutter goes awry

Bootnotes07 Nov 2013 | 64

Apple named in criminal lawsuit over Premier League–streaming app

Enraged Thai telly tycoons claiming $3m damages from Cupertino and hapless dev

Legal16 Sep 2013 | 29

Premier League seeks court order to ban footie-streaming Swedish site

BT probably most keen...

Legal25 Jun 2013 | 38

Footy lovers hit in Wembley playoff card snatch scam

Man on - in the middle, claims club

Security23 May 2013 | 5

Setanta, ESPN couldn't make UK footie TV work. How will BT Sport?

By giving it all away? Um, let's take a look

Legal10 May 2013 | 46

Indian IT consultant becomes idol to legions of football fans

Hat-trick hiccup bloke declines offer to join Premier League

Bootnotes24 Apr 2013 | 11

Provider of FIFA goal line tech chosen, tracks ball in space and time

Strangely a German firm, not one in Qatar

Science04 Apr 2013 | 50

Anonymous turns private eye in Ohio rape case

Releases purloined data after hacking attack

Legal04 Jan 2013 | 91

Fifa 13 game review

Review Kicks balls

Personal Tech27 Oct 2012 | 19

Man City drags Big Data into Big Football

Open ... and Shut And Google+ grabs sweaty ballers for its Hangouts...

On-Prem25 Sep 2012 | 14

Christian footie match ends in almighty brawl

Other cheeks unturned in unholy rumpus

Bootnotes24 Sep 2012 | 103

Euro 2012: England is semi-final probability

Euro 2012 stats Stats-cruncher lifts nation's hopes

Bootnotes08 Jun 2012 | 34

Score! Classic Goals

iGamer Score draw something

Personal Tech30 May 2012 | 4

450-year-old football was hard to kick

Journal releases pile of sports research, possibly answers every pub argument forever

Science30 May 2012 | 19

Kelvin MacKenzie blasts 'footie rights warehouse' BSkyB

Battle for the Johnstone's Paint Trophy taken to Ofcom

Legal09 May 2012 | 43

Fifa fans kick up fuss over Euro 2012 team substitutions

EA accused of red carding complaints

Personal Tech25 Apr 2012 | 11

Norwich FC scores own goal in net kit leak

Fans cry foul over bully boy tactics

Legal20 Apr 2012 |

Football rules punt Oz IPTV into touch

Minister will decide who gets to play with balls and when

Legal23 Mar 2012 | 7

Footie club sacks striker for homophobic tweet

Own goal scored in jibe at gay rugby player

Bootnotes12 Jan 2012 | 64

Apple shoots for Premier League soccer streaming rights

iTunes 1, Sky 0?

Personal Tech04 Jan 2012 | 51

Premier League loses footie decoder case

Euro court rules in favour of pub landlady

Personal Tech04 Oct 2011 | 61

Fifa 12 kicks off with £2 HMV deal

Save a lot, that's the goal

Personal Tech30 Sep 2011 |

Fantasy Premier League falls over

Can't play, won't play

Networks13 Aug 2011 | 20

Prime Minister recalls holidaying MPs after London riots

16,000 police patrol streets tonight as retailers count cost of looting, fires

Legal09 Aug 2011 | 131

Sky to show FA Cup match in 3D

Man C, Man C, Man C vs Stoke, Stoke, Stoke

Personal Tech27 Apr 2011 | 11

Fired-up eco-boffin gives it '180 per cent'

Leaves 110 per cent footballing lads sick as a parrot

Bootnotes14 Apr 2011 | 62