One of English football's lower leagues has hired a Manchester-based PR agency to increase...Bird Consultancy has been taken on by the Football Conference, which is one rung below the Football League. Bird will work to increase awareness of the league by targeting the regional and national media. Bird's brief also includes launching The Football Conference Sportsmanship Awards', an awards ...
07 Feb 1997
| by STEVE BEVAN
The Football League has parted company with its lobbying firm
Westminster Strategy...The Football League has parted company with its lobbying firm
Westminster Strategy ...
candidate.
The move is part of a wide-ranging review of the 72-club Football
League s operations ...
vehicle.
Westminster Strategy has handled public affairs for the Football League
since 1993 ...
03 Dec 2004
| by Ian Hall
The Football League is in talks with PR agencies as it bids to overhaul The Championship’s image...The League wants matches to be ‘more of an event’ and to build the division as a ‘strong, vibrant, premium brand’, said Football League Championship director Stewart Regan.
The PR firm will devise ...
24 Championship grounds.
Initiatives being mooted include Champions League-style centre ...
28 Jan 2005
| by Ian Hall
The Football League has hired FWMpr to boost the image of the Championship. A forthcoming PR...of the League’s ambition, revealed in PRWeek last month (PRWeek, 3 December 2004), to attract more fans and sponsors to games in the English game’s second tier.
The League wants to sign up ‘potentially five’ well ...
League-style pre-kick-off music.
Regan also wants any Championship games screened on live TV to host ...
06 Aug 2004
Division the Coca-Cola Championship, the Football League - chaired by Brian Mawhinney (pictured) - took
The Football League has hired Threepipe to work on ongoing PR campaigns....Threepipe is working on national, regional and online coverage around The Football League ...
League matches.
The agency s first activity will be to promote The Football League Awards 2011 ...
previously worked with The Football League in August 2010 to help launch its successful iPhone App ...
The Football League has appointed Fleishman-Hillard's top crisis comms expert as part of a wider...to Football League chairman Lord Mawhinney. Megaw is currently a board director and head of corporate comms and issues management at Fleishman. The Football League is responsible for the Coca-Cola Football League ...
with Football League head of comms John Nagle. Fleishman-Hillard said Megaw would be replaced by senior ...
03 Dec 2004
| by Ravi Chandiramani
The Football League's plans to overhaul the Championship's image defy the tribal loyalties...to further commercial partners.
Football League Championship director Stewart Regan wants to encourage fans ...
, the fact is that football club allegiance - particularly in the lower leagues where success is harder to come by - remains to a large extent tribal.
Customer loyalty to the Football League Championship per ...
The Football League has brought in Threepipe to help engage fans online and promote the launch of a...: The Football League s iPhone app really will stand out from the opposition at the start of the season ...
The app will be launched later this month to target fans of the Npower Championship, League 1 and League 2. The free app will provide fans with news, scores and results as well as a premium services ...
21 Feb 1997
| by DENNIS SIGNY
Dennis Signy unveils plans to keep the Football League s PR ball
rolling....Dennis Signy unveils plans to keep the Football League s PR ball
rolling.
What do ...
, the Football League s 72 clubs
fear their lifeblood is being slowly sucked away in what is becoming a
two-tier sport. We must prove that the Football League is the heart and
soul of football, says Signy ...