Colm’s football app. is ahead of the game

A FORMER HEAD boy of St Louis Grammar School is hoping to revolutionise football for the spectator with a brand new iPhone app that he has created.

Colm McMullan 29, came up with the idea of taking all the statistics at the end of a football match and putting them into a smartphone app.

The app market is one of the fastest growing in the world and the Randalstown man- who now lives in London- put his thinking cap on and picked his market very carefully.

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He said: “Football has always been a huge passion of mine - I grew up playing with Randalstown United at underage levels, Enkalon in the Ballymena Saturday morning league and played for Chimney Corner before I moved to London.

“The app came about purely because I knew this match data was available, I wanted access to it and none of the brands I thought would develop the app ever did. I’ve always liked the idea of trying to go independent business wise so I saw it as a real opportunity for me to get something started.”

After leaving a high-flying job with Microsoft, Colm came up with idea on his own and after a successful launch he has joined forces with sports data company Opta and FourFourTwo magazine.

The app allows users to analyse the data from a football match, track each pass and see how a player’s influence changes through the game, or compare teams or players statistics.

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The app is the perfect tool for those who love a good debate over the beautiful game and enjoy the challenge of planning a fantasy football team.

Colm launched Total Football for last year’s world cup using information from sports data company, Opta, when they saw how successful the app was doing they decided to become a part of his team.

They worked in partnership with Colm and had a follow-up app running for the Champions League last season.

Now the big players have joined the team and the app has been launched this week under the banner of huge football magazine FourFourTwo. It is already heading to the top of the download league for football nuts around the UK and all three players get a split of the revenue. Most app developers either make money and take their cut, or try to make a living off it. Colm however receives a development fee and gets a cut of the revenue for the app, which will hopefully benefit from running under the magazine logo.

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“FourFourTwo provide the kind of brand recognition and audience marketing that I could only dream of,” said Colm.

To gage the reaction of the public to this app it just takes a quick look at the comments section on the iTunes website. It has a rating of 4.5 stars which is fantastic for a new app, “simply brilliant. A must have for any football fan,” said one impressed customer. “This is by far the best app out there is you like your stats and like a good debate on teams’ tactics,” said another.

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