Website review: Football Filter

Every site wants you the reader, reading its material.  Its getting a hold of you in the first place and people knowing you are out there on the web that is the hard thing.   Recruitment to the cause is difficult.   Your country will always need you - or so they say - but so does just about every football site on the internet.  The trouble is how do you find the site you want that writes about the stuff you want to read about.    Everyone has got there own set of stock football sites that they trawl through for information on football.   Most of us start at the BBC sport pages for insight, information and the latest news, fixtures and updates.  After that you have a selection of the Times, Guardian, your own clubs home page and then an assortment of forums where you spill your views about all you have read about elsewhere.   Football Filter though is different , it does not have stories of its own but instead provides a theatre for summerising all that exists and could be seen as the ask.com or google.com of the football filtering world.

What you have with Football filter is the best in online sources from fhe world of online football writing.  Broadsheets, tabloids, rumours, podcasts, forums, magazines, blogs, foreign press and even websites and blogs dedicated to WAG culture are covered.   The site itself comes via a one-page set up that is simply constructed and pleasantly presented giving users an at-a-glance overview of all of the headlines and links to reach the stories they want.

Of course there is only so much that every newspaper can cover on a daily basis.  At the time of writing this review almost every newspaper in Scotland was writing the same story about Aiden McGeady and his fall out with his employer, Celtic Football club.  News is normally the same whether you get it on Channel 4 or ITV.  It is the quality of it and they way it is assessed that is important.   That aside one of the downsides to Football Filter is that is is very difficult to find exactly whay you want to find with the filter in that it is not a filter site in that you type in a topic in a 'search' portal and what you want comes up.   What the site gives you are lists of links to the content of football pages and sites all laid out on the one webpage.    You are not able to filter out the good from the bad but every one more or less knows anyway that the football writing on TimesOnline is better than in The Sun.

Football Filter is a good idea for those of us who want to know what is being said in the press and magazines without having to go to the local newsagent shop and buying every paper daily and getting ink covered fingertips whilst eating the cornflakes.    What is more you cannot get an eye full of page 3 with Football Filter but you can glance through Kickette or WAG of the day feature where you can see who the latest Premiership footballer is hanging out with in terms of footbal company.

By Redmann • Dec 20th 2008 • Category: Web Reviews


http://www.footballfilter.com