by Minter Dial | May 25, 2008 | Sports
Olympique Lyonnais double up on PSG in the Coupe de France 2008, but is the French Ligue really competitive? Having watched the Manchester United vs Chelsea in the European Champions Cup Final this week (prior post here), this Olympique Lyon (OL) v PSG Coupe de France...
by Minter Dial | May 22, 2008 | Sports
In Moscow last night, it was high drama as Manchester United downed Chelsea FC in penalties 6-5 in the European Champions League Final last night after a 1-1 game (regulation and overtime). Man U won when they should not have. Although they scored first and dominated...
by Minter Dial | May 12, 2008 | Branding, Marketing, Sports
I had a marvelous marketing moment recently. I was walking down the Champs Elysées and, having just flown and enormously enjoyed Emirates Airline, I saw a photograph [left] on this storefront of a Paris St-Germain (PSG) football player wearing his uniform emblazoned...
by Minter Dial | Apr 24, 2008 | Sports
As is frequently the case, in the big games, it is all about creating your ‘luck’. But in sports fan-dom (sitting in your canapé or reading BBC.co.uk, etc), you win some and you lose fun (oops, I meant ‘some’). The Reds of Liverpool (my team in...
by Minter Dial | Sep 26, 2007 | Sports
Liverpool stuck it to Reading last night, at Reading, with a Carling Cup 4-2 win, featuring a hat-trick by Fernando Torres. This excellent result puts the Reds into the fourth round of the Cup. Ola Fernando! Note that Gerrard only came on the for the last 15 minutes....