Stand up - Speak Out

[Ruairi]

Ah the good old days.



Why do you feel you need to have one if you're not going to show it to people? Why do you feel that you must have a wristband in order to be against racism?

because nike says you should!!

[De Town]

2 things for you aldodo...

1, your just asking to be banned with the amount of spamming your doing here. We know you want a fcuking wristband, you don't have to keep asking over and over and over.....

2, Im going to London this weekend and Im sure theres plenty of them overthere, but I couldnt be bothered to buy 1 for you because of your constant posting about wanting 1. Your annoying me and I would say your annoying everyone else, esp. dahamsta, telling him he doesn't have a clue.... he must be really pi$$ed off reading your crap so why don't you let it lie...

[De Town]

of course im going to show to people but im not going to wave it around as a fashion item!! if i get one it's cause i support the campaign

So you have to have a wristband to support the campaign?

[De Town]

obviously not but i would like one!

So its a fashion statement

[Peadar]

1, i don't give a crap if i get banned cause most of the people on this site are idiods

Ever think that since you're in the minority that it may indeed be you who is the idiot?
If you had showed a little respect, someone on here would, no doubt, have found a wristband for you and posted it to you.
We're nice guys like that.

[Pat O' Banton]

Yeah Peadar stop bullying the kid , I mean him and his generation are going to get rid of rasicism from the world, mainly it would appear by wearing coperate logo wrist bands and typing things on football message boards

[De Town]

Ever think that since you're in the minority that it may indeed be you who is the idiot?
If you had showed a little respect, someone on here would, no doubt, have found a wristband for you and posted it to you.
We're nice guys like that.

Great point Peader. As I said, im going to London and I would surely have found 1 somewhere but because of his antics, I couldnt be ars€d.

[dahamsta]

no de town YOU can pi$$ off i own this thread

One more smart comment and you'll be suspended from the site.

adam

[Karlos]

In reality, at a football game or whatever, if there is a group of people who want to racially abuse a player, I doubt many will stand up to them.
That's the reality of it.

One thing that all seater stadia has been useful for however is picking out of racists without having to confront them at the time. All you need to do is pop off to a steward and give him the seat number of an offender and you've done your part. Having done this on 3 occaisions now at Lansdowne Road all be it twice by following up with a letter to the FAI. we have been told that the persons in question had their ticket revoked due to the cpmplaints received from a group of us and evidence from the steward. You can stand up and speak out in many ways and people should not have to tolerate racist abuse at football because thet are scared of confrontation.

I have bought the wristband, not as a fashion statement but to show that I am against racism at football and that I will do whatever I can to highlight the problem. I have also bought a 'livestrong' wrist band for the members of my family and families worldwide who are surviving cancer everyday. For some people these things can be fashion led of course but not everyone should be tarred with the same brush.

p.s. those people wearing yellow wristbands not from the 'LIVEStrong' cancer research organistaion as a pure fashion accessory really do undermine the struggle that people face daily and what the wear yellow campaign signifies for millions of cancer survivors.

I think both campaigns have helped highlight two serious issues for me and my support for both will last long after the current fad has died.

[tiktok]

here's your slogan.....

Wristbands! Because AIDS ribbons are so 1994!

I see kids with these up and down their arms all the time, they have pink ones for breast cancer awareness, anti-bullying ones, anti-racism one, Lance Armstrongs yellow cancer research ones, it's absolutely a fashion statement.

Nike realise this, they'll give the wristbands away at cost; not free by the way, they're charging 25% for producing them, is it charity if it costs them nothing???

Tom Humprhries and Gary Neville are bang on the money, I give it a couple of months before ultra-humane Nike bring out the T-shirts

[Peadar]

Tom Humprhries and Gary Neville are bang on the money, I give it a couple of months before ultra-humane Nike bring out the T-shirts

To be fair, Thierry Henry wanted to highlight the problem so he went to Nike for help. Someone had to produce them. Henry couldn't make them himself so he asked for something back from Nike.
Neville is only having a go because of this.
He couldn't care less.
If it was Van Nistlerooy who headed the campaign he wouldn't have said a word. He's just another Ferguson clone, all mouth.

Talking about charity day's, I see that Alex Ferguson has his own campaign going here at the moment. You can buy big red noses in most shops.

[tiktok]

To be fair, Thierry Henry wanted to highlight the problem so he went to Nike for help. Someone had to produce them.

Not knocking Henry at all; though as for your comment regarding what Neville would have said if it was VanN's idea, I think if you look back, you'll find that our Rio was the other figure spearheading this when it came out, so it's not some Arse -v- Ferg vendetta, the lad's simply saying what he believes, anyway, he'll cop enough sh1t from the PLC at old trafford as Nike are sponsors.

All I'm saying is that if Nike wanted to be charitable, they could have absorbed the cost of production. As it is it's free advertising, because the manufacture isn't costing them a penny (well, it's probably costing them exactly one penny per band).

[Karlos]

Nike were initially involved in the Lance Armstrong campaign which was set up by the Lance Armstrong Organisation to highlight cancer survivors struggle and was the first of it's kind and IS a very worthwile campaign, speaking as someone who lives with a cancer survivor.

The other campaigns mentioned (pink, blue, red, black) are not Nike involved campaigns but campaigns that jumped on the success of the cancer research ones. The BBC in the UK were involved in the blue wristband campaign.

Nike have done the anti-racism ones at the request of 'Va Va Voom' according to the man himself and one suspects that giving the racism he encountered this year, had his sponsor been puma, reebok or adidas for that matter he would have been looking for their involvement in some form of anti-racism campaign anyway, it just happens he is with NIKE.

[Macy]

If it was Van Nistlerooy who headed the campaign he wouldn't have said a word. He's just another Ferguson clone, all mouth.

Ferdinand is also involved isn't he?

[Karlos]

Ferdinand is also involved isn't he?

Correctemondo! As is RvN - in fact their is more Man Utd Players in the advertising campaign than from any other club - well played!

[dahamsta]

ok i'm sorry dahamsta i will stop annoying people and i'm sorry if i offened you sorry

Now stop spamming the site. Three posts in a row saying essentially the same thing is not acceptable. If you really feel the need to make an addition to a previous post, edit it. I'm binning all of your posts and resetting your post count to 0. I won't tolerate post count wh*res on Foot.ie.

adam

[Peadar]

I think if you look back, you'll find that our Rio was the other figure spearheading this when it came out, so it's not some Arse -v- Ferg vendetta

Are you sure that wasn't the bullying campaign?

[WeAreRovers]

To be fair, Thierry Henry wanted to highlight the problem so he went to Nike for help.

That's the most ridiculous bit -

TH - "'Allo iz zat Nike? I have a problem with nasty racists, can you guys help? Merci"

Nike - "Dia duit Terry, no problem at all. Why don't we take out 2 page ads in 442 and stick Nike branding all over it. We'll get some brilliant marketing out of it and rid the world of racism forever"

TH - "Va Va Voom!"

Nike - "Wrong endorsement Terry"

TH "Merde"

KOH

[Peadar]

That's the most ridiculous bit -

TH - "'Allo iz zat Nike?...

Now, now WAR, you're making fun of a very serious subject.
I put on the voices when I read your post in my head.
Are you sure the perosn in Nike was Irish?

[WeAreRovers]

Are you sure the perosn in Nike was Irish?

Of course, it was their Irish Head of Marketing - a Mr. Aldodo.

KOH