In the 43rd minute, the ball dropped to on-loan Chelsea defender Nathaniel Chalobah 30 yards from goal, just as FootballFanCast.com and its exclusive Twitter hashtag #RealOpinions appeared on the LED perimeter boards.

The 18-year-old, who has been one of the standout players in the Championship this season, connected with a sweet half volley that left Foxes goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel rooted to the spot as it flew into the top corner.

With Chalobah predicted to be a growing force for both club and country in the coming years and Gianfranco’s Zola Watford set to battle it out with Crystal Palace for a place in the Premier League, FootballFanCast’s exposure continues on an upward curve with Snack Media’s sister agency Sports Revolution being the largest media rights owner in UK football stadia advertising.

A pioneering website in fan-led conversation, FootballFanCast is promoted to the masses at Premier League and Championship football grounds across the country.

Absolute Radio’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Football radio show is hosted by ex-Arsenal striker Ian Wright every Saturday and Wrighty gave listeners the chance to win a place at the next ‘Lads’ Night In’ that specifically took place at the Bobby Moore Club Wembley suite. Absolute Radio listeners got a once-in-a-lifetime chance to win an invitation to the event by donating to the Prince’s Trust – Absolute Radio’s chosen charity for the 2012/13 football campaign.

Pre-match attendees were treated to a private Q&A session with the Rock ‘N’ Roll Football presenters Ian Wright, Russ Williams and Jim Proudfoot, as well as Arsenal legend Perry Groves and Prince’s Trust Ambassador and former Manchester United striker Dion Dublin.

The event comprised a live auction, the chance to have your photo taken with Ian Wright and the FA Cup trophy, while there was also an opportunity to take away signed memorabilia. All proceeds went to the Prince’s Trust who help disadvantaged young people across the UK.

The ‘Lads’ Night In’ followed on from the fruitful partnership deal that saw Snack Media’s flagship football webzine FootballFanCast.com advertised live on the radio station’s airwaves, which receives one million plus listeners, in return for media space through sister agency Sports Revolution’s in-stadia advertising inventory.

In the lead up to the ‘Lads’ Night In’, the event was promoted throughout Snack Media’s social platforms and the four bloggers tweeted about what turned out to be a controversial tie live from the home of English football, resulting in a total exposure of 567,000 on Twitter. Post-match editorials were submitted to FootballFanCast.com with pageviews in excess of 5,000 and growing.

Absolute Radio’s ‘Lads’ Night In’ raised over £3000 for the Princes Trust.

Appearing live on screen in the online edition of Football Focus, FootballFanCast.com and its exclusive Twitter hashtag #realopinions appear constantly between 00:10 and 00:40 seconds and also a couple of times after 05:30.

With current Wales boss Chris Coleman being interviewed by BBC Sport’s Dan Walker in the footage, FootballFanCast’s exposure continues on an upward curve with Snack Media’s sister agency Sports Revolution – who provide such opportunities – representing the largest media rights owner in UK football stadia advertising.

A pioneering website in fan-led conversation, FootballFanCast is promoted to the masses at Premier League and Championship football grounds across the country.

FootballFanCast.com is delighted to announce the launch of The Fan Opinionator, an exclusive opinions portal on the site that enables ardent football fans to  voice their opinion on some of the most talked about subjects that underpin the fabric of the modern game.

Accessible through the main site at FootballFanCast.com/opinions, users are presented with a clean and easily interpretable interface that features a large array of dilemmas that they can submit their opinion on. By taking part, the polls will ultimately result in a collective fans’ stance on each subject, perfectly dovetailing with the identity of FootballFanCast.com as an opinion-led forum.

The interactive experience is enhanced further, with the opinions portal also accessible through single sign-on functionality using your preferred social media login.  Fans can already join the debate with FootballFanCast.com using the hashtag #RealOpinions during regular  live match blogs.

FootballFanCast.com places you at the centre of the action, asking you to submit your opinion on an entire range of quandaries. Such as whether Arsenal can count on Olivier Giroud to be a consistent scorer for the rest of the season, if Spurs should have accepted Reading’s £10 million January transfer window bid for Gylfi Sigurdsson and whether Newcastle United should re-sign Andy Carroll this forthcoming summer.

With no limit placed on the number of opinions visitors can submit, make your voice heard and don’t subscribe to the old, tired view as held by the pundits on television. FootballFanCast.com’s Fan Opinionator is all about seeking out authentic insight from the most important people in the game – the fans. So get involved and take a look today.

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As part of FootballFanCast.com’s emerging partnership with Absolute Radio, the site that attracts in excess of one million unique visitors every month will have its radio ad heard by thousands of listeners across the country.

The heavyweight campaign is focused around Absolute Radio’s five-and-a-half hours of football coverage on a Saturday afternoon, while also being aired throughout the rest of the station’s schedule.

The campaign is running in the two weeks up until the conclusion of the 2013 January Transfer Window, which is one of the busiest days of the football calendar and will see many high-profile transfers take place.

The ad is based around FootballFanCast.com providing real opinions; from what you eat at the stadium at half-time and your take on the debate between terracing and seating, to who you would select as the best player in the world.

Sarah Groarke, Managing Director of Snack Media, describes the advertising campaign on Absolute Radio as the “perfect opportunity to increase the awareness of FootballFanCast.com amongst football supporters in the UK.”

The campaign is part of the deal that saw Absolute Radio’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Football show, which is fronted by former Arsenal striker Ian Wright, feature on concourse TVs in football stadia up and down the country.

You can keep up to date with all the latest football transfer rumours at FootballFanCast.com and hear the website’s radio ad on Absolute Radio up until Thursday 31st January.

Football fans who love a rumour can now experience a series of improvements to the site including an  enhanced user experience and a navigation overhaul so visitors can choose their rumour by league encompassing all of the daily action from the Premier League, Football League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1.

The Transfer Tavern offers visitors a unique experience when it comes to transfer rumours and we are sure you’ll love the pub environment where you can pull up a bar stool, drink in the atmosphere and join the debate in a transfer specific-forum.

The new and improved virtual pub places the fan at the centre of the conversation, giving them the opportunity to decide which rumours can be considered reputable and what others have particularly been hitting the booze!

Offering a welcoming environment (unless visitors fall foul of the old Dutch courage too often!) the Transfer Tavern remedies the exhaustion from the monotonous transfer stories in the papers.

The one stop shop has already witnessed the £12 million switch of Daniel Sturridge from Chelsea to Liverpool, the French coup of Loic Remy to QPR and the emotional return of Joe Cole to West Ham and you can follow all of the remaining thrills and spills right up until the close of the window here on FootballTransferTavern.com.

Whilst many would concede that Barcelona, Real Madrid and Manchester United are in and amongst the clubs competing regularly for the top prizes – and therefore correctly categorised as the most lucrative and popular worldwide, it isn’t just competitiveness alone that can translate as meaningful in determining the world’s biggest club.

Social media can shed some light on this very fact and given that most, if not all top flight football clubs now carry an online presence, determining the number of likes and followers a club has is certainly a reputable factor when attempting to whittle down just who is the biggest club worldwide.

Every Premier League club now carries a verified Twitter account and the same can be said of Facebook with Google+ the latest social platform to be making ground in the hyperactive environment of football fandom.

To find out which clubs are amongst the 20 most popular worldwide based on their social media attendance, you can reveal the illusive list by visiting our countdown here.

Making use of jumbo screens and TV networks as provided by sister agency and sports marketing group – Sports Revolution, football fans are invited to tweet ex-Arsenal and England hero Ian Wright who fronts a live Premier League debate show on Saturday evening’s with selected tweets appearing live in-stadia on concourses nationwide.

Using the Twitter hashtag #tellwrighty, fans can get in contact with the ex-professional direct with some views being debated upon live on air, making for a streamlined service which shares our key principles of fan engagement and optimised interaction.

The deal will also see ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Football’ promoting our stellar football opinions webzine FootballFanCast.com in return for media space throughout the in-stadia advertising inventory.

Sarah Groarke who has been co-ordinating the project said “Like FootballFancast.com, Rock ‘n’ Roll Football is all about real fans and real opinions. It is the perfect fit for a ground-breaking new partnership, creating a new way for fans to voice their views from the heart of the action.”

Group commercial director at Sports Revolution, Vange Kourentis said “We continue to invest and develop in stadia technology that allows fans to interact with the event and bring brands closer to those conversations.’

Brand marketing manager at Absolute Radio, Laura Tannenbaum added “We are excited to be the first brand in the UK to reach our audience in football stadia via Twitter. We have a track record of media innovation, finding exciting new ways to connect with our listeners and where better to engage football fans with our football show than directly in the grounds themselves.”

To read more about this deal, take a look at the following links below.

http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/home/absolute-radio-aims-to-raise-profile-of-football-show/4005151.article

http://www.sportindustry.biz/news/view/11742/sports-revolution-%26-absolute-radio-team-up

http://mobilemarketingmagazine.com/content/snack-media-and-absolute-radio-team-twitter-football-first

A fan can now better enjoy the football news and opinion portal due to the many improvements to the site. The sleek, easy-to-navigate design, allows simpler user access for the latest football news.

The new comprehensive design lets the 3 million plus visitors see the site in a clear and organized layout. Through the new navigation overhaul, fans can participate in any part of the football content easier then ever.

Just as autumn brings a new football season, Snack Media has brought a new site. FFC is loaded with the most up to date football news, videos, galleries and of course opinions from some of the UK’s most intriguing football writers. See it now at FootbalFanCast.com!

The Chelsea Football FanCast, a Chelsea podcast for Chelsea fans by Chelsea fans, has been running for more than five years, talking about anything and everything to do with the Blues.

It is the only weekly show to listen to if you are as Chelsea fan, as thousands of Blues do on a weekly basis and it was these listeners who helped the Chelsea Football FanCast to pick up the prestigious Best Podcast Award at the Football Blogging Awards 2012.

The Football Blogging Awards (The FBAs) are the only awards designed for football blogs and football bloggers, which are decided entirely by the public, recognising and awarding the best of football blogging.

In the best podcast category, the Chelsea Football FanCast was going up against fellow football podcasts The Square Ball, Stop! Hammer Time, From the Rookery End and emerged victorious and the award ceremony that was hosted in Manchester.

This caps off a great season for the Chelsea Football FanCast lads, having seen their boys win the Champions League in Munich just a couple of months ago.

Click here to listen to the award-winning Chelsea podcast, the Chelsea Football FanCast.