I look at football from all angles - not just the same track that the mass media follow. I think that football is all-encompassing and a football blog needs to take this into account. Football for all.
My blogs are starting to take off a little and I've found interest from different parts of the world. I has readers contact me from Spain, India, Canada and the USA in recent weeks.
It's good to know that people are reading!
As part of the promotion of my blog, I've written a couple of guest post recently. It's something that I enjoy and it helps with the publicity of my blog.
One is in a website called best football apps and I have written about my kids obsession with FIFA16-
I think that it is always good to spread your wings and every new reader I get is a bonus.
Next up will be a blog about the enigma that is Everton football club, more views on the transfer window and a response to the Deloitte football "rich list."
I've written a guest post for Footie Quiz this week.It's good to be able to share with other websites, and I've written about the great Footie Quiz website before.
As you know, In Off The Post is always looking at all sides
of the world of football and this week I have come across this great website
called http://www.footiequiz.co.uk/
It has 27,000 football quiz and trivia questions for you to try and thousands
of different quizzes on clubs, competitions and footballer players. It got me
thinking about which players, past of present, would be top of the league in
Footie Quiz? Much has been said about players such as Paul Scholes, Andres
Iniesta and Zinedine Zidane being intelligent footballers, but what about
intelligence off the field of play?
Current Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet may take some
stopping (especially among keepers who are usually regarded as crazy) as he has
a Degree in Law and Political Science, and can speak four languages.
So as a natural speaker of English, French, Dutch and German, I think that his
specialist subject would be the Champions League- http://www.footiequiz.co.uk/subject/champions-league
One player that I always thought had an on the pitch
football intelligence about him was Dennis Bergkamp. And Bergkamp got himself a
degree in medical engineering at the University of Bath during his time at
Arsenal. Known as the non-flying Dutchman, I don’t think that Dennis would like
to go too far to find the answers to his questions and I think that he would
like to be test his memory with questions on himself- http://www.footiequiz.co.uk/subject/dennis-bergkamp
When I started to
look into intelligent footballers I kept coming across the name of Frank
Lampard. I dismissed this immediately because I remember his post-match interviews
and don’t really remember being overwhelmed with intelligent responses. So I
looked a little further and in fact he has an amazing IQ of 150, which puts him
in the top half a percent of the world population and considered the level of
genius! That IQ score is only 10 points behind Albert Einstein. Being a player
that has played in 20 of the 23 completed Premier League seasons I think that
his specialist subject could only be the Premier League- http://www.footiequiz.co.uk/subject/premier-league
I watched a recent episode of Countdown on Channel 4 and
both Matt Le Tissier and Graeme Le Saux appeared on it, Le Tissier as a
contestant (with 3 consecutive wins) and Le Saux in dictionary corner.
Both noted for a level of intelligence on and off the pitch,
I think that as Le Saux and Le Tissier played together I would set Graeme
questions on his former teammate to really test their friendship- http://www.footiequiz.co.uk/subject/matthew-le-tissier
While Le Tissier netted another hat-trick with three wins on
the show and made his name in his playing career as a one club man. That club
was Southampton and I can’t see anywhere past his beloved Saints as the subject
where he would score the most points - http://www.footiequiz.co.uk/subject/southampton
Having an intelligence
on the football pitch doesn’t always follow that the player has intelligence in
real life, but the most engaging way for you to get involved in the world of
football intelligence is to test yourself against the best on the Footie Quiz
website.
