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    Adidas adiZero F50: 99-gram football boots to launch 2015

    By 27 May 2013

    Football boots are about to get a whole lot lighter. Adidas has unveiled a prototype adiZero F50 99g boot which - as the name suggests - weighs in at a mere 99 grams, almost 50 per cent lighter than the current top-spec F50 adiZero Prime. Cripes. Pocket-lint...

  • Sports Fitness

    Adidas miCoach Smart Ball: The iOS-linked football that measures your every kick

    By 25 May 2013

    Soon it won't just be the brains behind football that matter, it will be the brains inside the football that will help with training. Adidas is to introduce the miCoach Smart Ball in 2014, a football that can measure the speed, spin and trajectory of...

  • Apps

    APP OF THE DAY: The Spurs Web review (iPad and iPhone)

    By 10 January 2013

    It’s the January Transfer Window and all those who love football have their eyes glued to the wires to see if they’ve just picked up the latest wunderkind or a belated Christmas pudding. If that sounds like you (not the pudding) and you happen to...

  • Apps

    APP OF THE DAY: ScoreMobile review (iPhone)

    By 24 May 2012

    Sports. There's a lot of 'em. Most people follow just one or two but then there are the true sports aficionados who need to know everything from baseball, football and Formula One. This is what ScoreMobile's app is for.  Or at least that is what it says...

  • Apps

    APP OF THE DAY: Bantr review (iPhone)

    By 9 May 2012

    The end of the football season is nearly upon us but before we hear the last squeaks of the bums the country over, we wanted to bring you just one more app for lovers of the beautiful game. It’s an iPhone-only affair at the moment but it should be on...

  • Apps

    APP OF THE DAY: Premier League 20 Seasons review (iPad / iPhone)

    By 17 April 2012

    Football fans who have been living in a cave - or support teams outside of the top division in England - may not have realised yet, but the current season of the Premier League is the 20th since it was formed. It's also been 20 years since Sky started...

  • Apps

    APP OF THE DAY: The Master Tactician review (iPad / Android)

    By 27 January 2012

    It's another FA Cup weekend and, as such, another excuse to take a closer look at one of the multifarious football apps that sit in the App Store. But today's App of The Day isn't a game based on flicking goals, or managing a team of virtual players to...

  • Apps

    APP OF THE DAY: Aurasma Lite review - (Spurs fans download now)

    By 30 September 2011

    If you’re reading this before 4:45pm GMT on Sunday 2 October 2011, you’re a Spurs fan and you happen to own either an Android or Apple smartphone, then you’re in luck. Pocket-lint’s App of the Day is not something exclusive to you, but you’re...

  • Apps

    APP OF THE DAY: The Official Football League Clubs’ review (Android)

    By 21 September 2011

    E I E I E I O, up the Football League we go, when we get promotion, this is what we'll sing, we are [insert team name here], we are [insert team name here], [Insert best player here] is our king. Ah, the Football League - don't you just love it? We do,...

  • Gaming

    Lords of Football - the football game that tells it how it is

    By 8 September 2011

    Fantasy football is for sissies. In fact, according to Italian football legend, Gianluca Vialli, the tactical side of management represents far less than just 25 per cent of the job and both he and Geniaware are going to show you why with the latest and...

  • Apps

    APP OF THE DAY: Fantasy Premier Manager review (Android)

    By 12 August 2011

    Playing fantasy football this season? You know the scenario. The first few months and it’s going fine. Your goalie’s tight, your midfield's assisting and your strikers are banging them in just as you’d planned. Then the one week you forget to do...

  • Gaming

    APP OF THE DAY: Championship Manager 1980s Legends review (iPhone / iPod touch)

    By 24 March 2011

    It's seemingly 1980s football week on Pocket-lint. Firstly, we met and chatted to two of the decades biggest stars, in the guise of Liverpool legends John Barnes and Ian Rush, and Paul's been trying to give himself a tight perm using a pencil and a can...

  • Apps

    APP OF THE DAY: Danger Makes Legend (Facebook)

    By 3 November 2010

    It's a rare thing on AOTD that we look at Facebook apps - largely because they require you handing over privacy rights to third parties - but, on the plus side, they do represent fun and games that everyone can enjoy regardless of their mobile phone choice....

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    FIFA 11 review

    By 1 October 2010

    To be completely honest, FIFA 10 was such a massive shake up for the franchise that, with FIFA 11, Electronic Arts could have released a mere update, relying on tweaks and fresh rosters. The software company even enhanced the gameplay a tad in the summer,...

  • Sports Fitness

    APP OF THE DAY - Flick Kick Football (iPhone)

    By 20 September 2010

    The football season is in full swing, but there is one football app that regardless of whether you follow the beautiful game you'll be glued to like it's Match of the Day and you don't know the result. Flick Kick Football Format iPhone, iPod touch, and...

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