Unfortunately its football these days so lets embrace it and get back to where we belong. It will still be elland road
It's not actually confirmed the stadium would be re-named. Just the shirt sponsorship talks "could" lead to stadium naming. Frankly, if getting the money needed to get back to where we belong involves playing in "Red Bull Elland Road Stadium" for a while I could deal with it.
Who cares what "they" want to call it. The address is still Elland Road, the fans will still call it Elland Road, my son will still have a plaque on his bedroom wall saying "Elland Road, LS11 0ES". And as long as Sky Sports keep saying "there's been another goal for Leeds at the Red Bull Stadium" I couldn't give a toss.
Great to see the level of support from most on here. Hope this is typical, as I suspect it is, throughout our fan base
I know your current franchise kit is white, but wasn't the traditional colours of the old leeds yellow and blue for most of its existence?
Excellent news, I would imagine the off the record announcement is to test the fans opinions, so think before you bite boys. I for one would welcome any investment, for me the ground can be renamed its still Elland Road (Red Bull Arena sounds ok), the colours can be changed back to Blue & Amber (with a Red Bull, just as long as the White Rose of Yorkshire is tastefully incorporated of course). I personally would prefer the keep White, but if it means that White is the new away shirt we wear when beating our Premiership opponents, I can live with that. The name is the sticking point, I can cope with "Red Bull Leeds United" at a push, yet "Red Bull Leeds" would be seem too far. If anyone is in real doubt ask a Cardiff fan if they would swap Premiership football for a blue shirt and a place in the Championship!
Look at what happened to Austria Salzburg when Red Bull took them over - I'd be worried if they came near my club http://www.thebeatengeneration.co.uk/tbg/index.php/2005/10/points-of-view/ Absolutely shocking reply from their PR Company!!
They won't stop at the Stadium. Name, kit, badge, history... all will go and be replaced by corporate bullshit.
Very true Marco!! Some stick out quotes from Red Bull : "Red Bull is not a sponsor in the traditional sense; it never was and never will be." When Red Bull changed Salzburg's colour from purple to white & talking about the clubs tradition "Since the start of this season we have been working at creating a new tradition. This tradition cannot and will not be separated from the history of football in Salzburg. But this new tradition is not purple, because purple is not the colour of Red Bull." Red Bull on its view of football fans "fans are a club’s supporters, its closest companions. They are important like friends are, perhaps even like members of the family. But they are not owners; they do not carry any responsibility for the future. Therefore they have the right to be consulted, but not to make decisions. Some fans have trouble understanding this." They sound ten times worse than the Cardiff lot
They are everything that is wrong with the world. They are the finest example of how the money men get their filthy hands in anything good and ruin it for the sake of making money.
I'd be happy with the deal! Aslong as we don't have red strips (which we won't). We will be able to invest in the team! Really hope it happens...
We will Jonny. Look at all the other clubs they are involved in. The name, the kit, the badge, the history, all will be wiped from the slate. You won't be happy with it when you get banned from Elland Road for your association with the traditional Leeds United. Sorry, "Red Bull Arena".
Whilst me & Jonny are inside the Arena watching Leeds beat Scum, we will try to spare a thought for you....
They are spot on. The fans dont own the club. Final say must go to the people stumping up the cash, common sense
A few words on change.... Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. Martin Luther King, Jr. (We have done the struggling, now we need to walk tall and enjoy ) It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. C. S. Lewis (Get wings or go rotten?) I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people. John Lennon (We are Leeds, it does not matter about the branding) It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. Charles Darwin (MOT!)
It won't be Leeds though, you'll just be watching a brand. It'll be a different club. They'll play in red and blue and those of you who want to celebrate the history of Leeds United will be silenced or ejected from the ground. The Leeds United you know won't exist. You'll be like the fans of the MK Dons. You'll be buying into the franchise.
Excuses for turning Leeds United into another corporate bullshit brand. I despite red bull, I think it's a horrible drink, it's terrible for your health and addictive and these clowns are only interested in money and nothing else. How can you not see that if red bull have their way, the club you will be supporting WILL NOT BE the Leeds United you love now. It'll just be a different club that plays in the same place and has taken over the spot left by the club that existed before. It won't be Leeds United any more. Location won't matter, it'll just be purely incidental and meaningless. Money has far too much power in this world, those with money care little for the opinions of those without. They fail to understand that the feelings and views of people should matter more than any amount of money, money was originally created as a means to allow trade between communities that were too large to simply just have a role for the greater good of that community. It was a means of ensuring everyone within a community could prove they were contributing to a community. Unfortunately that meant those with more money could get more and over years it has become warped into a horrible monster that consumes everything. Money ruins everything good in the world. How can destroying a great and traditional football club for the sake of creating an advertising medium be for the good of anyone except soulless ****s with money?
