Npower is activating its sponsorship of the English Football League this year with a
Foursquare-esque social media game for fans to "show their loyalty" to their clubs.
Fire owner Andrew Hauptman remains optimistic about the club's chances to compete for a playoff
position this season despite the team's 1-4-6 start and feels that under the direction of interim
coach Frank Klopas the team can improve. Hauptman was also complimentary of now former coach Carlos
De Los Cobos although his hiring ultimately did not work out.
This has been a big week in football media, obviously. Richard Keys and Andy Gray were fired
from/pressured to resign from Sky Sports for sexist comments about female linespersons caught on
tape. I don't want to speak much more to the hypocrisy of traditional football media's open-mouthed
shock reaction to sexism within its own ranks, an institution that has largely been completely
dismissive of women's soccer (to the detriment of the development of the sport in England, as well
as an echo of the sad legacy of the FA's relationship with women's football—see Dick, Kerr's
Ladies).
