York City change ground name....

[Simon Pieman]

thats quite a height to lay down on if they are double deckers

speaking of which i really want a double decker bar now

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

I'm afraid they've also signed a shirt sponsorship deal for next season as well.

Seriously?!?!  Who with?  Nationwide?  I'm devastated.  Sell outs the lot of 'em.
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Boeta -   Well that's a fair point if ever I saw one.

The thing is with the Catalans they're probably more xenophobic than racist. Xenophobic against Spain.
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Yeah they're more anti-Spaniard than the Scots are anti-English.  And that's saying something.

Yes, apparently they've signed a deal starting from next season with some computer interweb company type thingy.

There are still other teams in Spain who don't have shirt sponsors though, such as Real Betis and (if we're talking racism, nationalism, xenophobia, call it what you will) Athletic Bilbao.  No sponsors for them if you please.  And of course you can't play for them if you're not a Basque.  As far as I know, no non-Basque has ever played for them.

[Melksham Red]

Anyone seen the Daily Star today? They suggest we could change the name of the CG to, wait for it...........................................................................................................




 The BOUNTY Ground.
 :roll:

[Boeta]

Should be a real Boost to the local economy

[janaage]

Athletic Bilbao will def have shirt sponsors nect season, as they are struggling with debt.  Still to find confirmation about Barca.  I hope they don't it's pretty cool they've resisted this far.

[sonicyouth]

Barca now have shirt sponsors, albeit on one sleeve.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

http://soccer.news.designerz.com/a-barcelona-shirt-that-will-cost-you-17-million-euros.html

They also mentioned it on Soccer AM a few weeks ago.

On the subject of sponsorship, it's been announced today (sorry if some one has done this already!) that Chelsea are terminating their kit deal with Umbro at a cost of £24 million(!!!!).  They're working out an even bigger deal with Adidas apparently.

It's a different world.

[strooood]

poor old umbro, theyve always been the shit one out of the big 4 footballmakes. nike adidas reebok and umbro.

i was certain they'd have something lined up with nike. which is clearly better than adidas

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

It's strange how very few English clubs wear Adidas kit these days.  I rememember back in the late 70's/early 80's, every Tom Dick and Harry wore Adidas - Even Swindon wore Adidas kit for about one season!

They were all made out of that horrible shiny material and had massive collars.  Those were the days!

[DMR]

i wonder if they're going to sign gary revel or michael tobler owen

To you Sir, I doff my cap

[janaage]

OST - That Article was posted in Oct 04, since then the Barca board got together and rejected this as they did not want to be linked to a gambling firm because of the message it would send young supporters.  tehy have decided to postpone any decision on shirt sponsorship until a later date.  Not saying it won't happen but not just yet!