Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Just a quick note to say Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all Web Teams webmasters and all visitors to Web Teams.

We hope you manage to get some games in over the holidays and the weather isn't too bad (see pictures below). All the very best with your clubs in 2009!

The Best Football Scene in a Movie

What is the best football scene in a movie?

Here are a few clips below...

1. Kes

Anyone over 30 in the UK will remember PE lessons like this. No coaching, just a school kid of a PE teacher playing out his dreams on the football pitch.

Billy Casper is last one in the line up to be picked for the team, the teacher fills him with confidence "Casper, I've got to have you. Come on..."




2. The Great Escape

A collection of the football clips to music below. Pele and Sylvester Stallone in the same film!




3. Bend It Like Beckham

Keira Knightley before she became a Hollywood superstar and Jonathan Rhys Meyers before he became a young Henry VIII.




4. Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Every Christmas there used to be a Disney special on ITV with clips from different films, this football clip from Bedknobs and Broomsticks was always there.



Can anyone else think of any great football scenes from movies?

Small Tweaks to the Match Report Page

A few tweaks have been made to the match report page. The screenshots below show the "before" and "after".

Any comments on this please reply to this blog post.


Before...



...and after

So, what are the benefits of these changes?

1. Sometimes the previous layout spread across the browser wider than the banner at the top of the page. Check out the "Before" picture above. This was always a minor irritation.


2. When a large match report was written it didn't wrap around the squad details area. Check out the white space to the bottom left on the "Before" picture above. This white space continued to the bottom of the match report.


3. If a match video was embedded in the match report, it was very squashed on the page. Check out the screenshot below to see this looking much nicer.

Great video

On a final note, check out how the webmaster from Soham Town Rangers has embedded the video above on his match report page:
http://www.webteams.co.uk/MatchReport.aspx?team=sohamtownrangersfc&mid=match54.xml

A great record of a super strike from Soham's Paul Jones.

For more details on how to add video content to your match reports and news items see:
http://webteams.blogspot.com/2008/06/post-your-videos-on-web-teams.html

Please let us know what you think when we make small changes like this.

Your Pictures On The Homepage

A couple of weeks ago we asked if you'd like a picture of your team on our homepage:
http://webteams.blogspot.com/2008/11/your-team-on-webteams-front-page.html.

Since then we've had some really good pictures emailed into us. However, rather than pick just one, our homepage now randomly picks a picture every time you visit:
http://www.webteams.co.uk

If you think you have a picture as good as one of those below and would like it on our homepage then please email it to support@webteams.co.uk - it must be good quality and not have a huge sponsorship board in front of it :)

A selection of some of the best photo's from you is below...


Sam from Horsley and Clandon FC sent this picture in. Non league football at its best
webteams.co.uk/horsleyclandon



Niki from Leeds City Juniors FC sent this great picture in. A super shot of youth football. Check out their site too for some excellent use of videos within their news items.
webteams.co.uk/leedscityjuniorsu13a



Liz from Poppleton Ladies FC sent this shot in. Even though it looks utterly freezing, everyone still has a smile on their face!
webteams.co.uk/shlfc