You may have noticed like me that Foxsports have started their TV campaign advertising their upcoming live and exclusive coverage of the 2010/2011 Hyundai A-League and Barclays Premier League.
This years advert got me thinking about all the football TV ads I’ve seen over the years, especially back in the UK on Skysports. Skysports has a rich tradition of producing high quality adverts at the start of every season dating back to the early 1990s, so I thought I would do some YouTube research to see what I could find.
The advert they used for the inaugural Premier League season back in 1992/93 had the tag line “It’s a whole new ball game” to the Simple Minds song ‘Alive And Kicking’. Since then there has been numerous highlights including the 1995/96 “One Vision” advert, the 1996/97 “It’s about being…” advert, the 2007/08 “Our biggest season yet” advert, last season’s “We know how you feel about it because we feel the same” advert, and the classic for the 2005/06 season called “Your Football Oasis” which saw Oasis performing ‘The Meaning Of Soul’ live at City of Manchester stadium.
All of those adverts are great in their own right but my personal favourite has to be the advert used for the 1997/98 season which saw British actor Sean Bean speak some very passionate words about every fans love for football and their football club.
Skysports 1997/98 TV Advert
The one sentence that sums up how I feel about Newcastle United is “It’s a feeling that can’t be explained but we spend our lives explaining it”, brilliant I love it.
Andrew McTernan – Row ‘S’ Army
