Archive for the ‘Best Football Advert Ever’ Category

Danny Graft from The Manor has shown his love for his boyhood club and at the same time given Arsenal fans everywhere a theme song to chant to in amidst the black clubs encircling the club.

His song; entitled ‘The Arsenal Anthem’ recalls his memories of Arsenal football club from 1988 to present and captures the spirit of England’s third most successful club with some historic clips and moments from the past 23-years or so.

The ginger singer also finds the time to take a dig at Talksport journalist Adrian Durham whose constant bashing of the Gunners grates Gooners everywhere.

It is actually quite catchy and well versed. So on three…We love the Arsenal, Arsenal, Arsenal (and repeat!)

Blackburn Rovers have gone clucking mad as they showcase their brand new shirt sponsor ‘Venkys’ with the cheesiest football advert since Gary Lineker did those Walkers promotions a few years back.

Resembling something straight out of an American-styled marketing project, the 30 second clip sees the likes of captain David Dunn, striker Jason Roberts and midfielder Morten Gamst Pedersen huddle together with fellow team-mates before ploughing into plates of deliciously seasoned, barbecued Venkys Chicken.

Its all a bit…well, hen-tastic, if you get the drift!

Adidas, and thousands of those who voted for this idea, have given the Berbatov an offer that he couldn’t refuse – to do his finest Don Corleone Impression.

Go hit up Adidas Call the shots to submit an idea of your own.

We love Mario Balotelli here at IntheStands and we wax lyrically about him on a daily basis in our blog posts and on our new podcasts.  So without further ado here is a Mario acting cool, suave and sophisticated as he shows us around a Nike luxurious pad.

All kinds of space age cool as I’m sure you would agree.

This week Barcelona’s Lionel Messi broke the Spanish La Liga record for scoring more than 50 goals in a season. There appears to be no stopping him and speedy pair of football boots seems to be doing the trick.

Like sex, football sells. Sometimes its for the good, but usually its for the bad as James Shaw will prove in 10 swift steps…

10. Sharpie

David Beckham has his but do you have yours? Well, No, unfortunately not because my daily routine doesn’t involve the signing of milk bottles, magazines and women’s tits depending on what paper you read.

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Okay, it’s not exclusively a football Advert, it is more of a compilation of stars sponsored by the Adidas brand. These include: Footballer’s Lionel Messi and David Beckham, Singer Katy Perry, and Basketball star Derek Rose, to name but a few…

Heart over head. Inclusion over ego. United by passion, we go all in. Go all in at http://www.youtube.com/adidas to see more.

Music is “Civilization” from the new album from Justice. Buy it on April 4th on iTunes!
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Xmybox are essentially an American Ann Summers and they have come up with a great way for women to enjoy football (if they don’t already)…

The advert stars two animated characters supporting opposing teams. The male Italian fan seems confused at her sudden excitement at the match (even though she is kitted out in football gear and is probably a fan anyway) -It however turns out that her excitement is due to her sitting on a football shaped – although not sized – vibrator. Very strange…

Through the power of Al Pacino’s speech in the film Any Given Sunday (About American Football I might add), Greek channel, Nova Sports highlights our intrinsic  love of football…

And if you care to read it, here is the speech in full. Boy, do I love American propaganda.

Three minutes
to the biggest battle of our professional lives
all comes down to today.
We are in hell right now, gentlemen
believe me, the margin for error is so small.

I mean one half step too late or to early

you don’t quite make it.

One half second too slow or too fast
and you don’t quite catch it. (Might want to look at a goalkeeper)
The inches we need are everywhere around us.

On this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone around us
to pieces for that inch.
We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch.
Cause we know
when we add up all those inches
that’s going to make the fucking difference
between WINNING and LOSING
between LIVING and DYING.

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Created in the run-in to the Euro 2004 championships, this advert stars the greatest footballers in Europe on a road trip to Lisbon…

Great Visuals, great ‘Italian job’ themed music (Although they are on their way to Lisbon?) and staring  more world class players than my Fifa ‘Ultimate team’ (Which is bloody good, I might add) this advert is a bona fide classic. The cast includes:  Zizou, David Trezeguet, David  Beckham, Michael Ballack, Alessandro Del Piero, Paddy Viera, Ashley Cole, Oliver Khan (Bored yet) and, of course, Raul. But the irony is that no Greek international is present (the eventual winners of the competion) despite Adidas having the tag-line Impossible is Nothing…

I think I have just about accepted the fact that there is no beating last weeks advert, despite its disturbing underlying theme. This week I have gone for a cheesy number from Pepsi…

It just goes to show as long as you wiggle a bit of dollar in front of a footballer they will make anything. This disastrously cheesy advert gets Carlos’ wall to bow giving him space to ping in a free kick. Quite clever incorporating the culture of Japan into the advert but I can’t get over how cringeworthy it is…

Sky Sports normally do a good job of marketing the new season on their channel, so much so that we have featured them numerous times on Best Football Advert Ever. But this years main advert is absolute genius, centred around the fact that “no one covers football like we do”…

They’ve got everyone to a  random park to cover a kick about between kids. Many quotes in this video are hilarious “I think I’m going to play for the blue side, cause I’m wearing a blue top” and “thankfully it’s an afternoon game, because Mickey is not allowed out to play after 6″.

Geoff Shreeves getting fobbed off by the MOTM after getting called for dinner and Kammy missing a goal are the icing on the cake for this video.

One thing bothers me though, the advert is essentially groups of men watching kids, who aren’t their own, play football. Risky subject and one not to be copied across the world…