The never ending commercialisation of football

[Diclonius]

Once they had UNICEF as their sponsor, now this...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63253948

[McSwanky]

Once they had UNICEF as their sponsor, now this...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63253948Barcelona, sponsored by Sheffield Wednesday?

[MWHIBBIES]

Barcelona are a pretty rotten club. Doesn't surprise me at all.

[Mcbizz1998]

I would be absolutely perplexed by that if I was a Barca fan.

[Northernhibee]

I've said it before, recently I've started enjoying attending the Scottish Womens games and even local junior games a lot more than top level mens football, and even Scottish Premiership matches for the commercialism that's such a big part of the game.

The cost of games is getting ludicrous - £29 to watch Dundee United vs Hibs when after half an hour one team will timewaste, feign injuries, and do what they can to avoid an actual game of football is ridiculous money. Add the cost of all the bits and pieces that come with it and it's no longer a working class persons game.

The Hibs Women's games are under a tenner, good football, good entertainment and played in the spirit of the game. Same with my local junior clubs.

I do fear that VAR in Scottish Football is just pushing the game further and further away from what makes the game enjoyable. Add to this adverts everywhere to bet, to drink, for crypto bollocks, adverts up on the big screens at every set piece, multi million catering deals that just shaft the fans with a crap product.

I'll still go and watch Hibs mens team as much as possible, but too often it feels like out of duty as opposed to properly looking forward to it.

Thank **** we're not as bad as this though.

[hibsbollah]

That’s amusing.

[Pagan Hibernia]

Barcelona are a pretty rotten club. Doesn't surprise me at all.

they really are.

they used to stand for something. Even the fact of all those years of keeping their shirts unblemished with sponsorship. But the arse has well and truly fallen out of that club and their ‘principles’ over the last couple of decades

[Glory Lurker]

Mes que un club ma bum. Aye, maybe before they debt doped themselves. Their 00s supremacy was built on sand. As corporate as they come now, dreaming of their Super League.

[jacomo]

they really are.

they used to stand for something. Even the fact of all those years of keeping their shirts unblemished with sponsorship. But the arse has well and truly fallen out of that club and their ‘principles’ over the last couple of decades


:agree:

[Rumble de Thump]

What's the problem?

[007]

Once they had UNICEF as their sponsor, now this...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63253948

Surely if you were going to use a bird as a logo and you're a bloke called Drake you'd use a duck not an owl. 🤔

[MWHIBBIES]

they really are.

they used to stand for something. Even the fact of all those years of keeping their shirts unblemished with sponsorship. But the arse has well and truly fallen out of that club and their ‘principles’ over the last couple of decades

The way they conduct transfers should've had them sanctioned years ago. Dembele, Fabregas and Coutinho transfers were disgraceful tactics.

Dodgy dealings, threating to not pay wages, going back on deals, selling off the clubs future for a quick buck now. A shambles of a club.

[heretoday]

What's the problem?

I agree.

[Scouse Hibee]

What’s the issue here? Better than a gambling or alcohol sponsor.

[Winston Ingram]

Barcelona are a pretty rotten club. Doesn't surprise me at all.

Delighted they’re out the CL. I genuinely hope their dodgy summer dealings come back to bite them

[Fuzzywuzzy]

New World Order, Bohemian grove, illuminati, etc, etc etc

[Hibernian Verse]

What’s the issue here? Better than a gambling or alcohol sponsor.

Or a payday loan company

26240

[Stubbsy90+2]

What's the problem?

Yup.

They are sponsored by a music streaming platform who have went for a bit of a twist in their sponsorship on the shirt for 1 game to celebrate a milestone being reached.

Not quite sure what the issue is really.

[Mcbizz1998]

Or a payday loan company

26240

Are those just stickers applied on the ball? Not even printed haha?

[Mcbizz1998]

Yup.

They are sponsored by a music streaming platform who have went for a bit of a twist in their sponsorship on the shirt for 1 game to celebrate a milestone being reached.

Not quite sure what the issue is really.

I think it’s just weird.

“Here dad, why do we have an owl on our strip?”

“Because Drake sold 50 billion records, son!”

[gbhibby]

Barcelona, sponsored by Sheffield Wednesday?
🤣

[NadeAteMyLunch!]

Or a payday loan company

26240

Wonga stickers, stuck really badly on the cheapest looking footballs I think I’ve ever seen. If ever a photo perfectly summed up Hearts.

[Pretty Boy]

I only found out today that some English clubs charge people for birthday shout outs at HT.

I found this out because Leicester have had to suspend sales this weekend because people were requesting mentions for 'Zak Rogers' and 'Brenda Snout'.

League One Barnsley charge £15 for a name being on their big screen for 10 seconds and a mention from the announcer. I daresay some will have no problem with such things but really? It's just squeezing every last penny because clubs know that supporters are absolute mugs.

[bigwheel]

I only found out today that some English clubs charge people for birthday shout outs at HT.

I found this out because Leicester have had to suspend sales this weekend because people were requesting mentions for 'Zak Rogers' and 'Brenda Snout'.

League One Barnsley charge £15 for a name being on their big screen for 10 seconds and a mention from the announcer. I daresay some will have no problem with such things but really? It's just squeezing every last penny because clubs know that supporters are absolute mugs.

Cue Hibs commercial team proposing new revenue ideas [emoji6]


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[OstKurve Hibs]

New World Order, Bohemian grove, illuminati, etc, etc etc

Yes, 100% !

[OstKurve Hibs]

Cue Hibs commercial team proposing new revenue ideas [emoji6]


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I noticed barcas new 3rd shirt for this season has a map of the city on it.
Hmmm, I wonder where we've seen that before ?

[1875godsgift]

Surely if you were going to use a bird as a logo and you're a bloke called Drake you'd use a duck not an owl. 🤔

Spot on, m'lord

[AgentDaleCooper]

New World Order, Bohemian grove, illuminati, etc, etc etc

haha, yeah, my conspiracy theorist pals will lose their minds over this

[seanshow]

Bizarre, This is the strangest commercial combo, since Snoop Dogg & Air New Zealand

[Greenio]

?

It's a major shirt sponsor. What's the problem? We've got one. So do 99% of all professional clubs

[Jim Herriot]

50 billion streams on Spotify? Wow, he'll have made hundreds of pounds from that.

[judas]

I agree.

Me too. Pass the bong.

[beensaidbefore]

Surely if you were going to use a bird as a logo and you're a bloke called Drake you'd use a duck not an owl. ��

Thought this too. Wtf has he got to do with football anyway?

Maybe if it was a Spanish/catalan singer who had a connection with the club but this just reeks of trying to seel to the North American market

[Spudster]

I noticed barcas new 3rd shirt for this season has a map of the city on it.
Hmmm, I wonder where we've seen that before ?
Barca have been doing that for years

[The Modfather]

50 billion streams on Spotify? Wow, he'll have made hundreds of pounds from that.

As an aside, 50 billion streams for Drake! What am I missing? It’s not my kind of music, but that doesn’t stop me appreciating the likes of Beyoncé and Tailor Swift. Their music isn’t for me but can appreciate its quality. Just tried a couple of Drakes most popular songs and they could be any one of the generic songs in the charts on a given day.

Yours, a dinosaur.

[cameronw-hfc]

As an aside, 50 billion streams for Drake! What am I missing? It’s not my kind of music, but that doesn’t stop me appreciating the likes of Beyoncé and Tailor Swift. Their music isn’t for me but can appreciate its quality. Just tried a couple of Drakes most popular songs and they could be any one of the generic songs in the charts on a given day.

Yours, a dinosaur.


Drakes kinda like the casual fans rapper. He's not entirely loved by the rap community for being just that, a bit generic. He's got some big songs, and I'm not into hip-hop myself but got a few friends that are and they all think he's subpar. He's just good at writing/producing catchy songs/generic lyrics.

On the topic of Barca, doesn't bother me. Clubs have been permanently re-naming stadiums, so a temp sponsor communicating an artist when they have Spotify as a sponsor is fine imo. Weird? Yes, but not wrong, or bad.

[Just_Jimmy]

I'm not arsed about their crappy shirt sponsor. I find it weird that no one seems to be bothered that they pushed players out, haven't paid players millions they owe them... but are still signing players willy nilly. They should have been hammered with a transfer ban.

Seems Hearts were indeed trendsetters and that's how big clubs do operate.

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[Northernhibee]

It does sadden me that oil and Saudi money has meant that football as a competition at the highest level is ultimately dead.

If there’s a top player who becomes available - E.G. Haaland, Messi, Mbappe, Neymar etc. then there realistically will be Man City, PSG, and maybe Real able to afford their signature. Almost everyone else has no chance. In the next ten years nobody will be able to compete with Man City in the league now Liverpools best team in a generation are winding down a bit, and the next ones likely to be able to compete are Newcastle who are a decade away from building up that team.

I know it’s always been that the richest clubs get the best players, but the gap between richest and the next step down is getting wider and wider.

Maybe a Super League for these teams that proper football fans can ignore whilst we enjoy a closer competition may not be a bad thing.