Mike Ashley has sold the name of St James Park - it's now Sports Direct.com Arena. Chelsea recently intimated that they intended to sell the naming rights of Stamford Bridge. We all know FFC are strappped for cash, so what are the chances of a similar fate for Craven Cottage? Never! Surely? All the PR nonsense of calling football grounds 'stadiums' is bad enough but can you imagine The Cottage being an 'arena'?
I'd hate to see it happen and can't for the life of me imagine Craven Cottage being called anything else. Could only see it working when moving to a new stadium like Arsenal did with the Emirates. But if it did ever happen to us I know that I for one will always call it Craven Cottage.
really cant see that happening. To be honest, it won't make much difference to geordie fans, appart from increase the hatred of Mike Ashley- Its officially been known as the [email protected] for the last two years. To every normal person, it was and will continue to be called St James' Park
I think that perhaps fulham are more synonymous which our ground than the majority of other clubs these days, particularly with the increasing numbers of new stadia. When people think of fulham, they think of the cottage. Probably to do with a range of factors, having the oldest stand in the country, being the oldest london club, being the last premier league team to have standing terraces and of course being that lovely away day by the river. So many factors contribute to our love of the cottage and everything about it. I believe we are lucky enough to have a chairman who despite giving us the 'gift' of that monstrosity of a statue, also appreciates the satisfaction we get from being part of something special at the cottage, and no soulless renaming of if would ever change that. Side note, Newcastle fans and all other fans will keep calling it St James Park, so you could argue that its renaming is nothing more than a financially beneficial technicality. I imagine city fans for example refer to eastlands rather than the etihad stadium.
That's the way I see it's just commercial, Doubt many fans call an old renamed stadium by it's commercial name. How many of us refer to the Premier League as The Barclays Premier League ? only on TV is it referred to that because of contract obligations. Same goes in Scotland and Wales.
You mean that Scotland and Wales have got corporate sponsorship? What, the whole country? Are we meant to refer to Scotland as Irn Bru-dom, or Wales as Jones' Leeks Emporium @Principality.com? On another less-than-serious note, which companies would be the most apt sponsors for various Premier League clubs/grounds, including us? On a serious note: Craven Cottage is and should always remain as Craven Cottage. If Newcastle are talking about £10M for St James Park, we wouldn't get anywhere near that much, and therefore the minimal gain wouldn't justify losing that massive chunk of heritage. I'm firmly in the 'no' camp.
Genuine LOL! Robes raises an interesting point about Man City's stadium. There wasn't much of a fuss when that was renamed - am I the only one thinking if they were still in the lower echelons they'd make as big an uproar as the Geordies have? EDIT: Or it could just be that it's a fairly new stadium anyway...
Haha, genius. How about "Craven Cottage Pies" get Birdseye to do them and they can sell them there as well. Winner.
