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Football Networking!

The following is an article that I wrote for the Ebbsfleet United matchday programme v Kettering.  The good news is the Fleet won 1-0!! Anyway, for those not lucky enough to get to the game, here is my latest offering: Sport is becoming very connected with social networking sites nowadays.  A quick internet search will provide you with a number of networking sites where you can find your favourite sporting teams and players.  Aside from the obvious marketing aspect, it is a chance for fans like you and I to follow our idols.  For example, there are many Facebook pages that cater for our sporting cravings.  Then there is Twitter where you are able to follow your favourite player, read their tweets and, if you are lucky enough, get a reply from them. In some respects it’s like belonging to a family as you follow all their highs and lows.  Naturally, there are other social networking sites which are becoming used more and more often.  However, I cannot imagine a transfer listed pla

From The Wall to Waltzing Matilda

When I was a teenager I had the pleasure of watching what, in my opinion, was the greatest concert of all time.  The concert was by a group called Pink Floyd (you may have heard of them!) and they performed the whole concert to their latest album release at that time called, quite simply, The Wall. Over the years I have raved to my friends about how good the concert was, as well as the album, and that if they ever got the chance to see it live then they should go.  Since I saw The Wall in concert, Pink Floyd have gone into a permanent hiatus and their talismanic bass player, Roger Waters, went his own way.  As such, The Wall has never been seen on tour in its entirety until very recently.  Roger Waters has been touring the world with an updated version of The Wall.  Now when I heard he was bringing this $55 million dollar show to Australia I was very excited.  Having remembered at how amazing the original show was, I was very keen to see how it would look like nowadays.  Also