Mirror football phone app
The latest Mirror Football app for the iPhone app is now much improved and is completely free for the 2011/2012 season. It can now be personalised and includes a new global fan blog.
MirrorFootball.co.uk has announced that it is launching a new and updated version of its popular football app for the iPhone, and it is packed with new and innovative features to coincide with the new 2011/2012 football season. The best news of all for football fans is that they will be able to get the app for free from all the Apple global apps stores, which will give even more fans access to Mirror football.
This app further builds on the success of the MirrorFootball.co.uk website (which in June 2011 had 3.8m users. Source: ABC) The app now allows users to personalise the homepage with a bookmark for their favourite club in the Premier League. It also gives access to club specific news, live match trackers which give minute by minute results and extensive photo and video-led content, as well as the new global fan blog facility.
The app gives footie fans instant access to a unique 24/7 news service which can be accessed anytime anywhere and there is also a wealth of exclusive pieces offering the opinions from both award winning writers and footballing legends. These include the transfer expert Darren Lewis, Oliver Holt, Robbie Savage, Mark Lawrenson and Martin Lipton.
Users can leave their comments on the articles and also send them onto their friends as well as publishing them on Facebook and Twitter. The new global fan blogs are great for those fans who follow football in other countries, and they can read analysis of games by bloggers in Spain, Italy, France, South America and MLS.
Key App Features
- FREE to download
- 24/7 breaking football news
- Personalise your homepage to your club
- Live up-to-the-minute match tracker
- Latest scores, results, fixtures and tables
- News & reports for all Premier League clubs
- Insights from award-winning columnists
- Real fans view from global bloggers
- Share stories with friends via Facebook and Twitter
- Videos of press conferences and interviews
- Read the top stories offline
Chris Ellis, Managing Director, Digital – Nationals Division, said: “We’re really excited to be launching the updated Mirror Football App for the new season. As well as adding a whole new raft of content to cover foreign leagues, we’ve made the app totally free so that many more iPhone and iPod Touch fans will have real-time access to the latest football news, opinion, results and fun that MirrorFootball.co.uk is known for. We’re also offering users more and more interactivity around video, social media and comments, making this the most compelling football app you can download.”
Consumers can find the app on Apple’s app store by searching for ‘Mirror Football’; customers in the UK can also get it by texting FOOTBALL to 67800 or find the app on the Apple app store at http://bit.ly/mirrorfootballapp, plus a trailer showing the app can be viewed at http://youtu.be/egq42pHZLCA.