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Mark Bullingham's balls, revisited

I enjoyed England's World Cup squad reveal.

The film is here:

It was released via The FA's app, which gave it a boost in the upload charts.

Context is king.

Last weekend the St George flag was used to portray a narrow version of Englishness.

I prefer the world The FA is promoting.

See previous note:

In praise of Mark Bullingham’s massive balls
Overthinking the sports business, for money
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Should BBC do Adidas PR?

It was the shoe what won it.

Just to be clear, the following copy is taken from a BBC Sport news story, not an Adidas press release:

What shoe did Sawe, Kejelcha and Assefa wear? All three athletes wore Adidas' Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3. The shoe was launched on 25 April, just two days before the world's best took to the streets of London. 
It is the third iteration of a hugely popular shoe. Adidas worked with Sawe, Kejelcha and Assefa over the last three years to produce this version of the trainer.
In Sawe's case, it
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Wedge Issues Live

We recorded a live podcast last week at MSQ Sport and Entertainment in Covent Garden, to mark the launch of At Last, Callaway Golf's new brand film, a way in to a conversation about the state of the golf business as we head in to The Masters, the first major of the season. The film captures the mood nicely.

A golf ad that doesn't feature the product...Bolshevism!

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Idea dump

Idea dump
Photo by Daniele Franchi / Unsplash
  1. The tyranny of targets - how we've allowed quantifiable metrics to seep in to every aspect of our life, and the consequences of that. Source: The Score by C Thi Nguyen. Builds on Charles Goodhart of 'Goodhart rule' fame, that suggests metrics become corrupted when 'pressed in to service' as targets. The problem is not just that we contort our behaviour a bureaucratic incentive, it's that we cease to realise that we're contorting our behaviour at all. All metrics are reductive by design and the simplicity changes how we judge what matters and what can be cast aside. The outcome
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