When I launched EPL Talk in 2005, my initial vision for the site was that it would be highly interactive and would embrace technology to bring English football supporters closer together. The main feature at that time was an online chat that would be hosted every weekend so that website visitors could chat at the same time they were watching Premier League matches, no matter where they lived in the world.

While the EPL Talk Chat, as it was named, became quite successful in the beginning, the concept of marrying interactivity with football grew to include other ideas such as live Flickr streams being beamed in from football grounds around England as well as text messages displayed on a web page to help football supporters find out what was happening at the grounds.

That vision of mixing streaming photographs and text messages from football grounds around England never happened. Reason being is that I wasn’t able to find enough football supporters willing to send texts and pictures from their mobile phones.

But that dream cropped up again for me recently thanks to the meteoric rise of Twitter.

However, if you’re on Twitter, you’ll know that there are far too few updates from football grounds as you would imagine. Why is that? I posed the question on Twitter, and here are some of the most interesting responses:

Now let me add that I don’t expect football supporters who are at Premier League games to tweet while the match is going on. But it would be interesting to get their perspective on what’s happening at the ground before and after the match, as well as at half-time. TV signals pick up a lot of the action, but there’s often plenty more storylines that happen at the games that we miss such as the mood among supporters, skirmishes outside football grounds, what the atmosphere is like in the ground and so on.

Based on the responses above, it looks like the cellular coverage isn’t strong enough to handle a ton of football supporters sending tweets, text messages or pictures from grounds — which is a shame.

So much for my dream, but hopefully the cellular coverage will improve over the next few years where these things can happen more reliably.

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