BT is to offer its new sports channels, offering live Premier League football, free to customers who take its broadband service as the telecoms operator ramps up its challenge to BSkyB’s dominance of UK pay-TV.

This weekend the English Premier League takes a break as the oldest federation competition in the world takes centre stage. The FA Cup never fails to deliver excitement and controversy as well as the frequent ‘giant killings’. As the FA Cup Third Round kicks off this weekend we take a look at Umbro’s new Hi Vis Neo Pro ball.

Exclusive – Football Marketing releases its first worldwide social media ranking, showing the number of Twitter “followers” and Facebook “likes” for each football club in April 2011.