Article: Football Pools signs social app partnerships.(Brief article)

The New Football Pools has signed partnership deals with Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and Metro to host a social application within their online fantasy football games.

The application allows players to create mini-Football Pools leagues and receive real-time updates from other gamers through the same login as their existing fantasy games.

The launch, supported by an integrated marketing campaign rolling out ahead of next month's 2009/10 season kick-off, is the first major third- party initiative since Sportech relaunched The New Football Pools last year.

Ian Penrose, Sportech CEO, said, "The first year was about building foundations ...

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