What do you buy the avid football fan for Christmas? How about this?

In Off The Post likes to take a look at football from many angles. It’s coming to the time of year where Christmas takes over. There’s planning your match schedules over the busy Christmas football period and buying football-related gifts for the football mad in your life to sort out.

As the Christmas season draws ever closer, there comes a time to consider the gifts you will get for your friends, family and work colleagues. One annual question is "what Christmas present do you get for the football fan?" The same old presents such as football shirts or books written by ex-footballers don't always cut the mustard. So what great (and different) gift can you buy someone who's interested in football?

I find that in the digital age, virtual gifts appeal to the young but are not the preferred way of sending a present. When it comes to reading a book, for instance, I want the feel of a real book. I want the feeling it gives, the smell it gives off and the physicality of holding it. For me, this beats reading on a Kindle or other reading device hands down.

There is a great gift available now for the avid football fan with discerning taste that wants to feel what they are reading.

It's the Soccer 360 Magazine Special offer and it can be found here www.soccer360magazine.com/giftsub.html

It’s a 1 year, 6 issue gift subscription of the great soccer magazine.

I’ve blogged about the Soccer360 magazine before and it’s becoming hugely popular with the football fan that wants news, views, reports and interviews that cover the best that football has to offer. The magazine has a truly international flavour, and caters for readers that want to look beyond their own league or country and really find out what’s going on in the world of soccer. With this gift subscription you can not only share the gift of football with a friend, family member or work colleague but there are free gifts too! Soccer360 magazine says-

“GIVE a gift, get a gift. GIVE THE GIFT OF SOCCER 360 AND RECEIVE TWO (2) FREE EURO 2016 BANNER PENS!”

The football-mad person in your life will be thrilled to receive a gift like this. It gives them access to quality writing on football, information about the global game and something to keep and look back on over the years. The magazine becomes timeless as today’s current footballers turn into tomorrow’s legends of the game. In the current FIFA generation of game players, access to information about footballers and teams from all over the world is becoming a valuable commodity. Let Soccer360 magazine help to get them to the top of the game by learning all about the world of soccer.

The very next issue is the January 2016 edition. This features a Neymar 29" giant pull out poster for all you Barcelona fans out there. It also includes a Euro 2016 Preview, hot on the heels of the draw for the competition. It showcases the Champions League best 16 of the season so far. There have been many surprises so far in the EPL, LA LIGA, SERIE A, BUNDESLIGA and Soccer360 takes a look at how this has unfolded. There are features on Muller, Buffon and Zlatan. Plus there’s an end of season MLS Season Review and much more.

In Off The Post is really excited about Soccer360 magazine, as (alongside this blog) it offers everything you want or need to know about the game of football around the world. Get to the website and get the perfect Christmas gift today.

I've found another gem in Soccer 360 magazine

So much is said and written about football. Newspapers have column inches to fill, Sky have built a media empire on its shoulders and websites churn out tens of thousands of words every week. What Dave Gorman refers to as "the bottom half of the internet" is awash with comment, banter and abuse. And all of this is before we start to scratch the surface of social media and all that is written there about the game we love. In some places, what is written is poor quality, derivate and offers nothing different.

In Off The Post looks for something different is this game we love. And I think I’ve found another gem.

I used to read Shoot and Match magazines when I was a kid, with basic short articles on players with an interesting story, and the back portion full of adverts including the obligatory Steve Earl football programme collectors adverts.

Just like In Off The Post, Soccer 360 Magazine is different. It looks at the game with different eyes. The magazine focuses on producing quality work and its success continues to grow, as it has recently published the 60th issue, stretching back to 2006. Soccer 360 is a creatively designed magazine and offers a unique extra large format size at 9.5” x 13.5”. This gives you a bigger, better experience and every page is in full colour. Its reach is global as it is available for digital subscription via the app or shipped worldwide to print subscribers. This marks out Soccer 360 Magazine over the alternatives.  Soccer 360 Magazine features the best of Premier League, MLS, Serie A, Bundesliga, La Liga and all the other big leagues from around the world. Ongoing coverage includes the world’s biggest soccer events - the Champion’s League, Europa League, World Cup qualifying and Euro 2016.

http://www.soccer360magazine.com/

Football fans want coverage of the biggest and best events, they want it in colour and they want it featured with insight and quality. Step forward, Soccer 360 magazine into the limelight. The magazine is over 100 pages per issue and this gives the writers the space to include quality articles about the players, teams and other aspects of the game in full. Being a magazine that is well-established and truly global gives them the opportunity to access the best players and the biggest names in the game. The 60th edition features Neymar, Zlatan Ibrahimovic , Paul Pogba and Jose Mourinho among others. This a wish list of the stars of world football for any reader and every issue is similarly jam-packed with the names of the game that you know and love (and sometimes loathe!)

If you are a discerning reader about football (and I would already assume that you are if you’re reading In Off The Post) then Soccer 360 Magazine is the one for you. I want to be able to bring something different to the readers of my blog every week and this magazine is another step in developing the ultimate football experience. Get in the know, get the app or subscribe to the magazine.

Check it out at-

http://www.soccer360magazine.com/