Presenting The New 5 Live Football Player

Julian Sharpe | 11:10 am | August 26, 2008 | News, Social Media

BBC has added another widget to its portfolio with the pending release of the new 5 Live Football Player it will offer live football commentary and additional content including exclusive interviews.

5 Live Football Player has the ability to be embedded on blogs, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and iGoogle and will offer 192 live English Premiership commentaries as well as action from the other leagues and cup competitions including:

The Championship
Champions League
UEFA Cup
FA Cup
Carling Cup
Scottish Premier League
Scottish Cup
International matches.

Further features will allow it to carry 5 Live’s popular 606 phone-in shows and webcam views of the studio. It can also be re-skinned to match the user’s team colours with the content is customisable, to allow personalisation. We have yet to try it out but will review and report and lets hope its as good as the BBC iplayer.