Rod Liddle reports: "As ever, the most hotly contested award was for Most Stupid Football Club Chairman, which this year Cardiff City's Vincent Tan thought he had sewn up by making the famous Bluebirds play in bright red. But he was pipped at the post by Hull City's Assem Allam, who has decided to rename the club Hull Tigers, as if they were a baseball team in Baltimore. The award was presented by whoever it is that owns QPR."
His point refers to the Americanisation of the club name, not a reference to the actual MLB team in Detroit. Poor analysis.
But hasn't the game got Americanised over the past few decades anyway - The Budwiser sponsored FA Cup, those awful cheerleaders when Sky first started covering football, the sponsored grounds, just to name a few
I think the grounds and sponsors are just part of having a commercial sport, its not isolated to football. Though you could argue America pioneered the commercialisation of sport I guess.
This is very true,but it doesn't mean you have to pander to commercialisations every whim.I used to be involved in motorsport(classic bike racing) and as you know that's very sponsor friendly,but the period of outfit we raced was from before all the stickers so,although we owned the outfit and paid a fair whack to enter races,no advertising was allowed on the race bikes.You could plaster the race van,awning,have great big adverts in your pit area,t-shirts,hats.etc,etc..maybe the FA could use this opportunity(with City) to firm up their own regulations re:sporting heritage.They probably won't,it's the FA,but one can hope.
Sounds like we are leading the way.Cash in now before the others wise up. If you eat fast food please do not even think about "heritage ,history,tradition" crip
I think there's bound to be more commercialism in sport and I can understand why people go along with it when there's money to be made. My view is a lot of international fans like British football because of the traditional side of things and cutting adrift from that will just cost money rather than make any.
account for this: http://www.midlandathleticleague.com/member-schools/north-baltimore-tigers/ poor advocating.
