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Keep Your Head and Feet in the Game with SportsDirect.com

April 13, 2012   Giulia   No comments

Score! According to FIFA there are 265 million people who play the world’s number one sport. So you have the physical ability and ball sense to play Football, but do you have the game intelligence? Is your head mightier than the football boots at your feet?

Originally considered to be an impossible component to measure, a new study conducted has claimed that game intelligence isn’t a mind field but can in fact be measured. Game intelligence is the
ability to “read” the play such as being in the right place at the right time. The scientists at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have assigned game intelligence to executive functions which includes mental processes such as planning and problem solving. The study that will be published in PLoS ONE, an online scientific journal, found that 57 elite footballers performed better in the executive function tests than the general population. The academics also found that the higher ranked footballers performed better in the executive function tests. The scientists are now hoping to study whether the executive functions can be improved by training. Tackle your Football with our football boots.

The UK’s leading sportswear retailer has a huge collection of Football boots. By high quality sports brands such as Adidas and Nike, our Football boots are sure to kick the right spot. We also have coloured boots and the traditional black football boots.

Slide your feet in to our football boots on SportsDirect.com. Have a look at our latest news and deals on our Facebook and Twitter pages.

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Set your own pace! Slide a foot in our SportsDirect running shoes

April 05, 2012   Giulia   No comments

Jog along to a marathon! With over 500 marathons in the world, you can choose where you want to run in our running shoes from the metropolitan Virgin London Marathon to the Big Five Marathon in the South African savannah.

After finishing the New York marathon in 2006, seven time Tour De France champion cyclist Lance Armstrong described it as “the hardest physical thing” he had ever done. According to Runners World, approximately forty percent of marathon entrants in 2011 were first timer marathoners. First time runners need to do long-term planning, stick to a rigorous training schedule and eat a balanced diet for at least four months before a marathon. Based on 23 years worth of data, Peak Performance, an information website for athletes and coaches, reported one in six runners came in to contact with St John’s ambulance, one in 800 visit a hospital accident and emergency department and one in 10,000 were admitted to hospital. In 2006, reality television celebrity Jade Goody was hospitalised while attempting the London marathon without adequate training. Leave your footprint in your marathon by training properly with our running shoes.

Sports Direct, the UK’s leading sportswear retailer has a wide range of running shoes. From Adidas to Sketchers, we have running shoes to suit everyone’s tastes. You can also pre-order the super naturally flexible Nike Flex running shoes available online now in different colours.

Plant your foot in our running shoes on SportsDirect.com. Check out our latest offers and deals on our Facebook and Twitter pages.

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Fundraising Success as SportsDirect.com Team up with Local Businesses to Help Raise Money for Sport Relief

March 27, 2012   Giulia   No comments

Plenty of fun was had by all this weekend as local businesses and bands teamed up with SportsDirect.com to help raise money for Sport Relief 2012. The ecommerce and buying department at SportsDirect.com head office in Shirebrook, Mansfield put together an evening of music, prizes and lots of cake at Shirebrook Miners Welfare on Saturday 24th March. A huge thank you goes out to the staff at the popular Shirebrook venue for providing the All Stars disco as well as the ideal venue for the event.

The gig, which featured local bands Dirty Beard, Crimson Circle, Without Our Crowns and Suckerpunch raised an amazing total of £751. Raffle prizes included donations from local Mansfield businesses Brown’s bar and restaurant and William James barber shop.  Emma Parker, who helped organise the event said “The night was a great success, we had a fantastic line up of local bands who put on a superb show for us. We want to say a big thank you to Alan and the team at Shirebrook Miners Welfare who hosted the event as well as William James barbers and Browns for donating raffle prizes for the cause- we couldn’t have done it without their help. It was great to see everyone supporting Sport Relief”.  The web and buying team also held several eBay auctions for signed Football shirts, Rugby shirts and Football boots to contribute to the huge Sport Relief fundraising total.

The fun didn’t stop there! On Sunday 25th March, in addition to the Shirebrook Sport Relief mile, SportsDirect.com organised a family fun day on Shirebrook Market Square. The event included; fair rides for the kids, visits from TV’s Igglepiggle and Upsy Daisy, a raffle plus various fundraising activities from Shirebrook Rangers football team, Button Bashers and more. Organiser Chris Dean said “It was fantastic to see everyone get involved, special thanks go out to Proctor and Son’s fair, Jump for Joy inflatables, the Shirebrook Co-op and Ex-servicemen’s club for donating their services and raffle prizes for the day”.

Many of Shirebrook’s local businesses based on the Market Square got involved with the event, as well as SportsDirect.com team members from both head office and the Shirebrook store. The fun day raised £3147 in total for Sport Relief, adding to the one million plus total already raised by SportsDirect.com. You can still get involved this year by buying the official Sport Relief t-shirt from www.sportsdirect.com as well as logging on to the official Facebook and Twitter pages to show how you raised money this year!

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