The reason i said religion is just the way people commit to a club and feel passionately about it. Just emphasizing way people feel about their club, and how then would react to see clubs traditions tampered with.
history is in the fabric of every football club. it isn't always relevant to an argument though, and thats where the binners go wrong, but they should still be proud to have it! but my word (quick ray wilkins reference there), they don't half bore the living daylights out of me with it
The simplest and easiest way to stop this happening would be for the fans to not buy the new kit. If they all turn up in for matches the current blue strip or if they want to wear red, wear a Welsh national shirt and the club make next to nothing from replica kit sales the owners will soon revert back to the blue kit. If, God forbid, it happened to us, I'd still go to games in yellow and green.
This BBC report is a little bit dramatic. First of all the investment is happening, not just on that condition, and Cardiff Blues will be going to Cardiff Arms Park so the football club can have full use of the stadium and brand it, that's already decided. Secondly there is actually a lot of consultation going on. As noted red and dragons are hardly alien in Wales. I would see it as an opportunity to take things up a notch. I'd much rather that than what's going on at Portman Road, being told how important our traditions are whilst riding rough shod over them. What is terrible is the neglect by owners of clubs like Blackburn and Coventry who are running them into the ground, not some investors trying to make a success of a football club that was in serious financial trouble.
If anyone done this to our club I hope our fans would riot and run the bastards responsible into the sea.
Absolutely right YellowLittle, I realise what you're saying. But it is precisely people feeling that way about it that I am saying is ridiculous. Talk about the worshipping of false idols!
Red is the colour in China followed by gold. McDs do so well in China not least because of the colour of their branding, but because the fluorescent lighting is so far from the forty watt bulb of the farms and days of yore. The dragon of course is the king of the beasts there,so this new branding exercise ticks all their boxes. Fortunately the canary doesn't exist in the Chinese horoscope. The closest is the rooster. I guess Blackburn will be taken over by the Chinese one day. Do any clubs have a pig as a mascot? A tiger? They will be next, mark my words...China
