Most embarrasing sponsors....

[Pauro 76]

Brighton in the nineties, when they were sponsored by Nobo.... Arsenal wearing Sega on their jerseys a while back, when Sega meant something rather rude when they were playing any Italian teams in the Champions League... as for eL teams, none spring to mind... apart from Pat the Baker for Longford Town way back...

[Martinho II]

I remember Sheffield Wednesday being sponsored by MR tom!
Liverpool by Candy,

[Gary]

Sheff Weds are now sponsered by Chupa Chups (cue joke:rolleyes: ). Just as well coz the suck!:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Autoglass is an embarrassing sponsor IMO.

[liam88]

Portsmouth with the nice big TY heart on the front of their Jersies.
Somewhere in Africa a team have their name right on the front of their Jersy, they are called something along the lines of,
"St. Pinatubo Wanka"

[A face]

Originally posted by PAURO 7
Sega meant something rather rude when they were playing any Italian teams

Sega means choking the chicken, you know ... a hand shuffle !!

There is a coffee company called SegaFredo (Fredo means cold) and they dont go down too well with fans as sponsors either. :)

[brendy_éire]

Aren't referees in the Scottish league sponsored by Specsavers? :D

[the 12 th man]

try cycling,they have hardwear depots (big matt),shoe companies(kelme),supermarkets(champion,super u),domestic appliance companies (fagor),among other glamourous sponsors

[Macy]

Originally posted by PAURO 7
apart from Pat the Baker for Longford Town way back...
Pat the Baker's a national, locally based company!?! Most embarrassing I can think of is "Dundalk Cabs" for Dundalk, obv...

[MickF]

AC Milan were sponsord by Pooh jeans in the early 80's. Remember seeing Joe Jordan wearing the shirt.

[Dodge]

We played Clydebank a few years ago and they were sponsored by Wet Wet Wet. Doubt any team in the world could beat that....

Oh and Gary :rolleyes:

[wws]

Nissan actually means "perrenial also rans" in japanese believe it or not, bizarre, yet true

[b_mcsweeney]

i remember waterford being sponsored by "waterford regional airport" when we played them in the LC a few years ago.

[Peadar]

Originally posted by wws
bizarre, yet true

Autoglass fell over themselves to sponsor St Pats.
With car theft and break ins so prevalent in the slum that is Inchicore, they felt they had to give something back to the community as a show of their appreciation.

[Dodge]

Originally posted by b_mcsweeney
i remember waterford being sponsored by "waterford regional airport" when we played them in the LC a few years ago.
Waterford's current one is ridiculous too. Any sponsor that doen't cater to the greater public is bad...

[patsh]

Well Bosch & Lomb (spelling?) are a major employer in Waterford, and have strong links to the community there. They cater to the public of Waterford, and obviously feel its worthwhile.
There is a difference between having an "embarrassing" sponsor in the "funny/peculiar" name sense, and having a very localised sponsor.
Obviously a bigger company can give bigger sponsorship, but anyone prepared to put money into an EL team should be welcomed.

[tetsujin1979]

Everton were sponsored a few years back by Danka. Nothing to embarrassing about that, until one of my Liverpool-daft mates started changing the D to a W on every everton pic he saw - Big Dunc used to get it the worst!

[pineapple stu]

UCD - a student team - used to be sponsored by Kaliber - a non-alcoholic beer!

[MickF]

What about Oxford United, who were sponsored by Wang.

Celtic when they played Lyon away, couldn't wear their sponsor's name because they were sponsored by an alcohol company which is outlawed in France.

I thought their shirt was a lot more attractive without the sponsor's name emblazoned across the front. I think sponsors names on the front of shirts look ugly.

[Dodge]

Originally posted by patsh
Well Bosch & Lomb (spelling?) are a major employer in Waterford, and have strong links to the community there. They cater to the public of Waterford, and obviously feel its worthwhile.
There is a difference between having an "embarrassing" sponsor in the "funny/peculiar" name sense, and having a very localised sponsor.
Obviously a bigger company can give bigger sponsorship, but anyone prepared to put money into an EL team should be welcomed.
Your right of course but their association with Waterford is a donation more than anything else. In terms of amrketing a league it'd look a lot better if we had Guinness et al sponsoring all clubs. The like sof Dundalk cabs ARE embarressing no matter how much money they pump in

[b_mcsweeney]

extremely (and obviously) regional sponsors are definitely kinda embarassing. it's not the gaa for ucks sake like!

[patsh]

Originally posted by b_mcsweeney
extremely (and obviously) regional sponsors are definitely kinda embarassing. it's not the gaa for ucks sake like!
I don't see how this is so.
Suppose the Kerry League, who play in the LC, were sponsored by the Kerry Group?
This is a regional, local sponsor, but they also happen to be a massive multi-national company (a bit like Bausch & Lomb). What would be embarrassing about that?
If Guinness sponsor one of their local Dub clubs, would that be embarrasing?
How about Heineken sponsoring Cork City, or Ford, or even Viagra :p?
Raytheon and Derry?

Maybe Dundalk Cabs is embarrassing to some, but obviously the club were more than happy to take their money.

[Macy]

Originally posted by patsh
Maybe Dundalk Cabs is embarrassing to some, but obviously the club were more than happy to take their money.
tbh Patsh, I think the point of that one is how desperate they were for the money.... Judging by their mb at the time it was hardly a big money investement - more a sign of how far the club had fallen...

[the 12 th man]

didnt durex support a motor racing team ??

[A face]

Originally posted by wws
"perrenial also rans"


What does this mean ???


How did you find that out anyway.



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[Pauro 76]

i remember Crystal Palace being sponsored by "Fly Virgin"!!!!

[Pauro 76]

Oh and Wimbledon once being sponsored by Tiny... imagine the ego boost there, running out in shirts with the word Tiny emblazoned all over it.......

[my left foot]

staines fc, local club of megastar gangsta rapper ali g,are sponsered by seimens.its made even better by the fact that my m8,who was playing for them at the time,negotiated the deal as he also worked for seimens.they play in the ryman first division north two leagues below the english conference

[Ultan]

I remember that WBA in Eng-ger-land used to have a big non smoking logo on their shirts, you know the one with the cig in a know and a huge red circle with a line going through it.

I thought it looked crap, back in the early 80's this impressionable young kid thought it was pretty unimpressive.

[sadloserkid]

Originally posted by PAURO 7
i remember Crystal Palace being sponsored by "Fly Virgin"!!!!

I can't believe that it took so long for somebody to bring this up. Playing with 'Virgin' emblazoned across your chest is not cool kids.

[pineapple stu]

Originally posted by Ultan
I remember that WBA in Eng-ger-land used to have a big non smoking logo on their shirts, you know the one with the cig in a know and a huge red circle with a line going through it.

Got relegated with it too! And then Limerick's senior GAA teams were sponsored by A drug-free campaign and went from All-Ireland finallists to being beaten in Munster in one year.

And the ad didn't seem to work much either!

[Pauro 76]

Originally posted by my left foot
staines fc, local club of megastar gangsta rapper ali g,are sponsered by seimens.its made even better by the fact that my m8,who was playing for them at the time,negotiated the deal as he also worked for seimens.they play in the ryman first division north two leagues below the english conference

Kinda reminds me of that sketch Alastair McGowan had in his Xmas special, he had David Seaman talking away about how Real Madrid approached him but he turned the deal down, cos of Real's sponsors... he didnt want his shirt covered in (......... )

[liam88]

Originally posted by A face
Sega means choking the chicken, you know ... a hand shuffle !!


where t ' heck ya get that?
Ma mate-came over from Italy, thus fluent-says it means "saw" :rolleyes:

[yur man]

my italian buddy says it does. he's not a footie fan yet he heard of arsenal playin in italy with '****' written on their shirts. made him laugh again today when i reminded him about it