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No Kane No Gain said:
lol that's pathetic from United. One of the richest clubs in the world and they still whore out their mascots for an ad gimmick <doh>
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It's not even the first time it's happened this season, as demonstrated by this slew of tweets from January

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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.
 
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humanbeingincroydon said:
It's not even the first time it's happened this season, as demonstrated by this slew of tweets from January

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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.
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Co-incidence surely. They all just love the movie. <whistle>. So cynical.
 
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.

:emoticon-0183-swear:emoticon-0119-puke:
 
O.Spurcat said:
Brace yourself Glasgow. Rumour has it that Brendan will be in town soon.
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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...
 
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It's not even the first time it's happened this season, as demonstrated by this slew of tweets from January

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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.
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In fairness, Schneiderlin's caption is actually very clever <laugh>

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.
 
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