It's not even the first time it's happened this season, as demonstrated by this slew of tweets from January The reason for this is typically sordid, as The Revenant and X-Men Apocalypse are both distributed by 20th Century Fox - who just so happened to sign a partnership deal with the club: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4dee5100-cc2d-11e5-a8ef-ea66e967dd44.html#axzz48wtnlxof In other words, Rupert Murdoch got his way and now the club is ensnared in his tentacles, being used as a walking billboard for his other ventures.
For an organisation based in Salford, the BBC are very far up the arses of Liverpool. Today we have Top of the Klopps: Reds boss' best bits Watch 10 of Jurgen Klopp's finest Liverpool moments so far, before his side face Sevilla in the Europa League final on Wednesday.
If I were Rodgers I'd sit at home and keep collecting the alleged £10m in severance money he's still owed. Then again, if I were Rodgers I wouldn't accuse another team's player of being a diver when I had Gerrard, Suarez and Sturridge in my team, as I'd expect someone to point out that obvious double standard...
In fairness, Schneiderlin's caption is actually very clever As nauseating is this is - the Glazer family will have had plenty of exposure to on-pitch commercialisation, such is the nature of most major sports in the US. The other point that definitely needs to be factored in is the timing of all of this - basically on the eve of United announcing spiraling debt and plummeting income. With the club missing out on the CL, their financial situation is only likely to get worse. A club as big as United will do anything, as we can see, to maintain their financial clout. Using players and mascots to promote actual merchandise of a sponsor is a new concept in this country as far as I am aware, and I doubt we've seen even the beginning of the nausea. I couldn't find their financial results for this season, last year it was already looking pretty grim... http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/manchester-united-financial-results-5-5151440
Jurgen Klopp must have spent half time reading excerpts from the bestselling pamphlet 'How to start the second half when you're well on top', published by Tottenham Hotbooks.
It doesn't look like Sevilla will do what Dortmund did and think they can ease off with half an hour left just because they have a two-goal advantage, does it?
