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62 of 62 Ciao users found the following review helpful

WormThatTurned

Kicking The Others In The Balls 12/10/2003

User recommends the product

Advantages Great community boards, fast update, site speed
Disadvantages Advertising, pop-ups, chat rooms.

I have tried various football websites including the likes of heavyweights such as ESPN and BBC but my personal favourite and the one I use from day to day to keep me up to speed in the world of Football is Rivals.net. Most club websites are of course very biased towards their own club and a lot of football websites have problems such as updates and the quality of writers. Rivals leads the way in my opinion because it is run by fans and the updates and writing are very speedy because of this. Rivals offers a unique concept, all 92 English football league clubs have a site within a site all ... more
14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful

theimp

Uniting The Rivals 06/08/2001

User doesn't recommend the product

Advantages All teams hosted on one site.
Disadvantages The sites all look the same, too much advertising.

Rivals.net is a collection of sport websites that cover most sports from cricket to football to rugby. The aim of Rivals.net is simple, to host websites that are run by individual fans of the individual teams. However this is the only time that word individual should be used when speaking about Rivals as when you have seen one team's website you have seen them all. Prior to the development of Rivals each of these sites were free to design and edit content as they wished. That though changed and in exchange for receiving cash for editing the sites the site editors have effectively sold their ... more
7 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful

gcooper

RIVALS is the place to be 21/01/2001

User recommends the product

Advantages Links everyone together, encourages good banter, easily accessible information and can create some good friendships between Rival Supporters and Sports fans alike
Disadvantages As with all sports sites it makes abuse easier to deliver for the Spammers.. Also sites that are not hosted by Rivals are made obscure if they aren't featuring on Rivals

RIVALS Sports network has been around for a year or so now as far as I can remember and covers a vast array of sports from F1 to Cricket, Football and many more... The basic concept behind Rivals is that each aspect of Sport is covered using the exact same layout, all are connected together on the network which allows 'rival' fans in communicate (hence the name RIVALS) By these means it has made Internet use easier to interact with and enables you to experience data in the Sports industry on the Worldwide Web by the usage of a very 'user friendly' format. Probably the biggest success of Rivals ... more
9 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful

Morgenhund

Member since 26/07/2000

Reviews written: 574

Too much flame 03/01/2001

User recommends the product

Advantages Wide range of sites, good photo galleries
Disadvantages Fan forums full of abuse

I initially discovered rivals.net when looking for sites about Somerset County Cricket Club, and discovered "The Grockle's Obsession" - www.grockles.com, a Somerset fansite whihc was being hosted by rivals. There were photo galleries, chatrooms, news about the club, special features, and then messageboards. Whilst The Grockle's Obsession has remained fairly friendly and probably is about the most ontopic of all the sites on rivals.net, the same cannot be said of all of the cricket and football sites. The South African, Australian and Indian fan sites are full of racist and profane comments ... more
8 of 8 Ciao users found the following review helpful

nikeair

Great sports network 18/12/2000

User recommends the product

Advantages Links up lots of great sites of all major sports
Disadvantages The sites are uniform as a result of the network system

This is the ultimate site for all sport fans. It's basically a way of linking up all different types of sports sites and re-formatting them so that there's an element of continuity throughout. Although rivals.net does cover all sorts of sports, I only ever really venture onto the football areas, so that's what I'll be writing about here - although I'm told that the other areas are similarly excellent. The football section of rivals.net has brought together the fansites of all the Premiership, Nationwide and Scottish teams aswell as a host of other, more general sites - right from a site on ... more