25 years of the Premier League

And now, in a dignified and graceful way, PL clubs are selling the advertising space on the left sleeve of their shirts for £5m plus a year (in Liverpool's case to a US financial services company) so kids can wander around bleak identikit shopping centres unconsciously promoting crap while buying crap.

Truly inspiring.

 

They will continue to sell off front, back, sides of shirts, shorts and socks.
In the NRL here in Oz, it's common practice and only getting worse.
My beloved St George Illawarra Dragons famous red V is being ruined a little bit every year.
The PL is a sitting duck.

An old unmolested Dragons jersey from the sixties.
The famous Red V.

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A more current version plastered with advertising.
This one is several years old, now they are even worst.

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Rugby shirts over here went nuts with advertising a few years ago, classic shirts ruined. It's calmed down a little but still messy eyesores nowadays.

There are a few clubs in Serie A and La Liga who don't have shirt sponsors, notably Roma, but this is seen as a failure to get companies to cough up enough rather than a principled decision.

These were the days.....

 

should the PL pay more



Premier League rejects London mayor demand to pay more for policing

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Image caption The Met Police were only recovered £361,000 from the £7.1m it spent policing London's premier League football clubs in the 2016/17 season
The Premier League has rejected the Mayor of London's demand for more money to help pay for match-day policing.
Last season the Metropolitan Police spent £7.1m covering professional football matches but was only able to recover 5.1% of the costs.
Mayor Sadiq Khan said he was "concerned the Met recoups so little" from the world's richest league.
The Premier League said it contributed to the cost of policing through the £2.4bn in taxes it generated.
Mr Khan had written to the league's chief executive Richard Scudamore urging them to 'step up and make a bigger contribution'.
In a statement the league said: "Costs incurred for policing away from the grounds are covered by general police budgets.
"Fans are members of the public and deserve to be treated as such.
"Far greater costs than those involved in policing football are incurred for covering tourist attractions, entertainment areas, the night-time economy, and other commercial activities."
London clubs which incurred the highest policing costs
2016/17 season

• West Ham Policing cost: £1.078,578 (£33,318 recovered by Met)
• Chelsea Policing cost: £726,683 (£156,375 recovered by Met)
• Tottenham Policing cost: £652,974 (£55,797 recovered by Met)

Source: City Hall
Reuters
The league said it was "happy to discuss" how to further reduce police costs "while co-operating to make our grounds as safe and welcoming as possible".
Football clubs can only be charged for policing inside stadiums or on their land, so the Met must cover costs such as managing travelling supporters or maintaining order outside grounds.
The force only recovered £361,000 from London football clubs, according to figures obtained by Labour London Assembly member Andrew Dismore.

 

Yes, it and the clubs should pay all the policing costs. And for the lower leagues.