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Youtube videos per team added with popup viewer

We've finally added videos from Youtube to each team. When browsing your favourite team you'll now see the videos tab.

There is also a javascript popup to watch the movie without leaving the page which I'm really happy with, big thanks to Mike for help with getting this working!

The videos are pulled in from Youtube RSS feeds for certain term queries, these had to be refined as for example just 'newcastle' obviously pulls in lots of random stuff whereas not everyone might tag their team 'newcastle united' so some good content might get missed. I tried to get the most balanced query which pulls in enough content whilst getting around the huge amounts of crap and spam that people are putting on Youtube and tagging with footy related terms.

One other thing I did notice is people are playing fifa on their xbox for example as Arsenal and scoring a goal as Henry, they then go and upload the vids and tag them as Arsenal. This is quite annoying as presumably people don't want to see clips of fifa goals but there is no easy way around this currently given people can tag anything they want on youtube. There'll be a flag content option soon whereby crap can be flagged to be removed which should also help.

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