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#BallStreet92

  Ball Street is for all fans, all teams and we will dedicate our following to the record attendance of every team that our twitter following reaches.

Our Header image will change as our twitter following reaches the record attendances of all 92 English League Clubs.

We have already hit a few of these attendances, but live today is Aldershot Town to mark their record gate of 7500.

We would like to thank @UrbanArtCrew who we met on Twitter, for this and many other brilliant ideas.   

Send us your fan video

In true Ball Street style, we need you to ClubTogether with us!!!

During our live transfer deadline show on Monday 2nd September 7.30pm-11.30pm we’ll be featuring videos from our followers and fans about their team’s transfer window.

We’d like 30 seconds on each of the following:

  #DayOfHope

Everyone hopes that their team makes the right deadline day moves – what business would you like to see your team do on deadline day?  This could include players you are being linked with or positions that still need addressing.

  Your window so far

How do you rate the business that your team has done in the window so far?

  What transfer broke your heart?

Tell us about a player leaving your club and why it left you broken hearted.

  Best moves of the summer

What are the signings you’ve been most impressed by?

    PLEASE FILM THE CONTENT SO YOU'RE CLEAR IN VISION, DON'T SIT IN FRONT OF A WINDOW, MAKE SURE THAT IF YOU'RE USING A SMART PHONE, YOU USE IT LANDSCAPE (ON IT'S SIDE) NOT PORTRAIT (NORMAL WAY UP)!

  ONCE YOU HAVE FILMED THE FOUR ANSWERS, PLEASE SAVE THE FILE AND USE A FILE TRANSFER SYSTEM (WETRANSFER IS A GOOD ONE) AND UPLOAD THE VIDEO AND SEND IT TO INTERN@BALLSTREET.CO.UK

VIDEOS BY MIDNIGHT THURSDAY 29th AUGUST PLEASE

PILLARS OF THE GAME TODAY

Ball Street is looking for talent!!

This is our new YouTube football show with Ian Wright and Jimmy Bullard: 4 Leagues | 5 topics | 1 show.  We'll be covering more than the top 6.

So, what is exactly is Ball Street?

Many of you have been asking the same thing.  What is Ball Street?

Ball Street is an idea, a vision, where the size of a club, and the league it is playing in doesn't determine the quality of insight and the level of coverage that the club gets.

We understand that more people are always going to watch Top 6 games, and that things aren't going to be solved overnight, but if we #ClubTogether believe we can change things.

  The start

Ball Street started as a small collective of football fans (including Luton, Huddersfield, Forest, Leeds and Rangers) who shared the view that most proper football fans are missing out.  With a few skills and experiences in production and sports media, we reached out to Ian Wright to see if he wanted to be a part of it.

Fans of most teams would have admired the passion he showed on the pitch, but most important to us, Ian knows the value of all clubs and the role football plays in our culture.

Before our meeting with Ian, he sent this tweet.  The response was fantastic and like he said to us, "we gotta get something done".

Serious question peeps - Who do you support and do you get what you need in terms of media coverage?

January 21, 2013

THANKS 4 amazing response.Most fans not happy with their teams coverage. Me and @ball_street are gonna take this on. Will need help tho!!

January 21, 2013

Having Ian Wright on board is huge for the cause.  He has profile; he has experience; he has contacts; and he wants to be part of something that benefits the game he loves.  But he can't do it alone, and neither can we. We need your help.

  Where are we heading?

It's too early to say exactly what Ball Street will become.  You're with us here on the ground floor as we start out on this journey.

At the very least, we're going to create a digital football show with Ian Wright that provides a platform for, and can be shaped by, fans of all teams. 

Consider our first production a pilot; a co-production created with your help and contributions.  We can shape something that we all want to see.

We don't have the funds of resources of the big boys, just a few quid that we've cobbled together from friends and family.  

We have many ideas about how we can work with fans, bloggers, established media companies and other organisations, and judging by your tweets and emails so do you.  So keep them coming, keep believing and please look out for, watch and contribute to our first show.

The Beast, Ade Akinfenwa of Northampton Town, surprises Wrighty on set during episode two of 451.

Episode 3 of Ball Street's 451 show with Ian Wright.

Isn't every league a 'premier' league?

by Matt, Ball Street

First things first, this isn’t it.   People keep asking what we’re up to and we’ve some exciting things in the pipeline - more of which soon.   For now we thought we’d do a blog to introduce ourselves and tell you about where we are coming from.

I’m a Huddersfield Town fan.  In all my time watching the Terriers we’ve never graced the top flight of English Football.  But every year, we’re in a league that matters more to me.  Last year it was League One; this coming season it will be the Championship. 

Now, like me, something like 80% of fans that actually attend matches support teams outside the top 6.  You wouldn’t think that from the coverage our teams receive or the quality of the analysis. 

Sure, Man United’s global fanbase of 333 million has to be catered for, but are the majority of football fans in the UK getting what they need from the media?

It’s still the usual suspects serving up the same old, pre-packaged lack of coverage be it on telly or online.  In our version of the ‘Usual Suspects’, the greatest trick the devil pulled was convincing the world that there was a ‘premier’ league so that we put up with this.

We don’t hate the Premier League, far from it.  We just think that every league is a premier league, and there should be a place where all fans, all teams, get the top six treatment.

Over the coming months and years, Ball Street’s going to try to do something about it.

twitter: @Ball_Street