Rob Parker | May 5, 2009
Witness the moment
As we get ready for the big match tonight, here is the Nike Ignite viral we first brought you in February to give you a little glimpse of the blood and thunder that is to come. Although I presume ITV won’t be shooting it quite as arty farty as this.
Is that first-leg goalscoring [...]
Rob Parker | April 27, 2009
4×4 reactions
This Nike (?) viral follows hot on the heels of the crazy Uzbekistan training video we brought you. And it follows the similar narrative of Australia’s World Cup qualification opponents going to great lengths in their training to keep the Socceroos at bay.
In what could prove to be an effective training technique for Premier [...]
Rob Parker | February 16, 2009
Rio looks on as Roo gets merked
Nike have struck viral gold after Wayne Rooney was nutmegged during a shoot for their new Nike Five initiative. The sports brand are hunting for the deadliest five-a-side team in the land and had got Rooney and Rio Ferdinand together with a group of youngsters to launch the campaign.
The [...]
Rob Parker | February 15, 2009
The beautiful game more beautiful than you have seen it before
This new Nike advert is a bit more serious than we have become accustomed to from the Swoosh brand. It pits the most prominent Nike-sponsored players of the Premier League’s two most prominent Nike-sponsored teams against each other for an advert that seems to have [...]
Rob Parker | February 5, 2009
This time it’s a dog school
Hot on the heels of El Nino’s woeful advertisement for his mate’s hair salon comes this equally bad advert for Narub dog school!
It comes with a remarkably similar story of Nando helping out a friend (this time Nacho, owner of Narub), but this time everyone but the mutts are clad [...]
Rob Parker | January 13, 2009
Football’s answer to Marmite
This new viral from Nike celebrates their prize-asset winning the FIFA World Player of the Year award by asking fans whether they love Ronaldo or hate Ronaldo. The man himself even sneaks into the viral incognito to boost the love votes!
Rob Parker | November 8, 2008
Albie gets C-Ron’s training gear and his skills
You wouldn’t have thought that merely wearing Cristiano Ronaldo’s skintight Nike training gear would allow you to show him up on the football pitch, but Nike see things a little differently. Manchester United kitman Albert Morgan gets a new lease of life when he dons the magic Nike [...]
