With news that Alex Ferguson was leaving Manchester United, it was only a matter of time before businesses started to think about marketing the huge sporting event.

The first to do so was Nandos, who promised that their ‘restaurants’ would stay open for five extra minutes to commemorate the passing of Fergie time, which gained them a huge amount of retweets on Twitter. read more »

We all knew that Stewart Downing hasn’t had the most productive of times at Liverpool since his arrival from Aston Villa, but being worse at shooting than reserve goalkeeper Brad Jones simply confirms those thoughts.

The video was a promotional campaign for Paddy Power in which Jones, Downing and Jose Enrique were asked to fire the ball at various targets. These won a respective fan the related prizes. read more »

Whilst most football adverts have gone rather woeful in nature (Luis Figo’s Just For Men as the prime example – “Fur me, eets nummer wun), this from Coke Zero is rather brilliant.

To celebrate 50 years of the German Bundesliga, the two videos celebrate some of the best players, goals and skills in the league’s history, edited together to create the ultimate Bundesliga goal. read more »

Lionel Messi may have received three Golden Balls, but now he has a Golden Foot to kick them with.

The statue was created by Japanese jeweller Ginza Tanaka to mark the player’s phenomenal achievements, and is believed to be worth as much as £3.5million. read more »

Chelsea’s players aren’t doing the business on the field, but club sponsors Samsung are making sure that they bleed them dry off the pitch with a series of adverts for the electrical giant.

A couple of weeks ago we brought you news of Fernando Torres’s baking efforts, and this week it is the turn of Brazilian Oscar.

He takes a Samsung heater and uses it to melt down a block of ice into the shape of the lion that appears on Chelsea’s club badge.

Our vote is for John Terry to be up next, using a Samsung smartphone to arrange orgies and bukake parties.