Football

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

Man Utd sues supporter over corporate client 'data theft'

Prawn sandwich crowd suffer intimidation

Security25 Mar 2011 | 15

Football goal-line tracking tech delayed

Contenders fail to tickle Fifa's fancy

Personal Tech07 Mar 2011 | 28

Fifa, Uefa lose free-to-view footie challenge

UK can lawfully insist all major games are shown for nowt, court rules

Personal Tech17 Feb 2011 | 37