Sat in Singapore having delighted in a few Tiger beers pondered if City have ever tried to get a sponsor deal on the table?
They did. It was used as a bargaining tool to get the Hull Tigers name accepted. The Tiger Beer deal depended on it, allegedly. £1m sponsorship at the time was talked about. I didn't believe a word of it then and still don't today.
I think there was an airline called Tiger that Assem claimed he had struck a sponsorship deal with too. Probably not true, given that we were already the Tigers and the deal was never completed.
A possibility, not definite, of £1 million if we went ahead with the ludicrous name change. At a time when we were raking in millions already. No wonder the FA laughed it out of the building when quite rightly kicking it out.
I think there are other Tigers that may be more attractive to them. In any case, it would not be that most required thing nowadays, inclusive, as Muslims would feel excluded and teetotallers and the anti alcohol NHS nuts wouldn’t like it.
Wait…but aren’t nearly all of our board Muslims? We’ve been sponsored by gambling companies and the like and it’s never been an issue? Pretty sure Everton were owned by Iranian born Farhad Moshiri when they signed their deal with SportPesa, who took over from Chang Thai beer as the sponsor and they had Arouna Kone, Muhammad Besic and Idrissa Gueye playing for them, all practicing Muslims. I’ll never understand this idea some folks have that the things religious people avoid due to their faith are like kryptonite that will send them reeling at the mere sight.
It was tongue in cheek. Which seems to go over the heads of people being po faced about it all. More a comment on the repetitive mantra everything needs to be inclusive. Something some other countries don’t practise.
