PRESS
What people are saying about IBWM.
“Hugely influential”
“Think of a country and the chances are that IBWM covers it, and covers it well”
“The 100 project deserves a pot of gold awards for diligence alone”
“By far and away, the outstanding football website”
In Bed With Maradona is gaining quite a reputation. We've won awards....
Gold, When Saturday Comes Best of the web awards 2011
Best blog, 2011 NOPA awards for football bloggers
We are respected for what we do right across the globe.....
The Sun, December 29 2011
Rogalands Avis, December 21 2011
....and people say nice things....
"If IBWM was a magazine, I'd take it to the loo with me EVERY time"
Iain Macintosh: The New paper, The Blizzard
"Football Porn!"
Kay Murray: FIFA Ballon d'Or presenter
"It’s been a defining year for this brilliantly named site, which has gone from relative obscurity to widespread acclaim in no time. And rightly so. Its dazzling mix of features, which look to all four corners of Planet Football, means you never know what’s coming next – which in these days of football saturation is a very good thing"
Oliver Irish: ITV Sport
As one of Europe's leading newspapers, the UK based Guardian are no mugs when it comes to football either. Not only do they write some fantastic stuff, they have impeccable taste too. Each week the Guardian sports writers select their favourite football stories from across the internet and we are very proud to say IBWM has featured regularly.
On the social networking side of things, we get lots of mentions on Twitter too and we have have well over 12,000 followers. In January 2011 IBWM was recommended so many times that we made the top 20 (we were number 19) most recommended twitterers* in the UK four weeks running. The only football realted twitterer ahead of us was Rio Ferdinand. We have a lot of people to thank for that.
IBWM regularly has more than 15,000 daily visitors and on 9 April 2012, more than 22,000** visited IBWM, something we are hugely grateful for and very proud of.......but we think that we are still just scratching the surface. IBWM is regularly read by some of the world's most influential writers, journalists, broadcasters and editors. We work closely with the BBC, World Soccer, When Saturday Comes, Umbro, adidas, Colorsport and some of the biggest publishing houses to name but a few.
If you would like to talk to us about interviews, article syndication, events or advertising, please get in touch via the contact page.
* Source followfriday.com **9 April 2012 22,016 unique visitors. Source SQSP Stats.