Comments on: An alternative to alcohol

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:18:29 +0000

Sorry to contradict Adam. Both Chelsea and Stuttgart had their sponsors on show in the ECWC ‘98. Autoglass for Chelsea and Gottinger Groupe for Stuttgart. Fantastic goal by Zola by the way.

By: John Devlin

John Devlin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:50:59 +0000

Nice one Jack – maybe thats the way to go with this alcohol ad problem? Rather than just displaying the logo actually convert the kit into a one-off full-on ad?!

By: jack

jack — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:44:48 +0000

whenthe ospreys rugby club pleyed a french side yesterday instead of having worthingtons on the back it said “are you worthy”. just thought you would like to know

By: John Devlin

John Devlin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:03:11 +0000

Great story Mark – thanks. Bet you’re kicking yourself now for getting rid of those shirts!

By: Mark Williams

Mark Williams — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:35:40 +0000

The Liverpool “Probably” shirts were actually gifted to Waterloo GSOB F.C. following the Scandanavian tour by Ronnie Moran who’s son Paul played in goal for us at that time. We continued to wear them for the following couple of seasons before they were consigned to the bin!!! Oopps!! If only we had thought on we could ahve been sitting on a gold mine!!!

By: John Devlin

John Devlin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:19:25 +0000

Thanks for yuour comments Tom – I had noticed that Brawn shirt and couldn’t quite get my head around it!

Adam – thats a good point, I’m guessing its due to sponsors/advertisers at these finals having exclusive advertising rights, ie no other brand names are permissable. Exclusivity in deals of this nature are very common in football (as I’ve recently found out!) Remember way back in the early 80s Liverpool had to play with the Umbro logos covered with a piece of tape?

By: Tom Parry-Jones

Tom Parry-Jones — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:31:27 +0000

The Welsh rugby team always has to replace the Brains logo whenever they play in France, and they’ve come up with some quite witty contributions in recent years. In 2005, the word “Brains” was replaced with “Brawn”, and then in 2007, they had “Brawn Again”. Then earlier this year the regular Wales kit had “Brains//SA”, but this was replaced by “Try//Essai” (”Essai” is the French word for “try”).

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:50:33 +0000

Does anyone know why back in the 90’s that in the Cup winners cup finals and for some years the European Cup finals (Before the champions league), that teams didnt have thier sponsor on thier shirts?

This was also the case for the World club cup finals aswell

By: Denis Hurley

Denis Hurley — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:40:53 +0000

I doubt it amir, in France the Heineken Cup is just referred to as the ‘H Cup’, while for Champions League games, sponsor boards say ‘Champions Planet’ instead of Heineken

By: amir

amir — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:41:45 +0000

Re: #7 Michael, an actual example was Arsenal-Hamburg matches a couple of years ago. The away team both times had hastily ironed on patches with ‘Dubai’ to cover the ‘Fly Emirates’ logo.

#10 Scotland RFU had to deal with this problem for even longer when they were sponsored by a well-known whisky maker who used the logo TFG instead (although I think they tried others as well). Also didn’t they have to allow Heineken spaces at RWC2007 in France?