(NHC) Mes que un club? Stick it!

[Glory Lurker]

Don't get me wrong, I'm a Catalanophile (Visca Catalunya!), but really how folk still get sucked in by the romantic whimsy that associates itself with this monster club is beyond me.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soc...inside-jersey/

[Jones28]

Jesus Christ, what's the point in that?!

[Sir David Gray]

Won't the players get booked for lifting their shirts when celebrating a goal?

Especially if it's going to reveal a commercial logo.

[Onceinawhile]

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Don't get me wrong, I'm a Catalanophile (Visca Catalunya!), but really how folk still get sucked in by the romantic whimsy that associates itself with this monster club is beyond me.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soc...inside-jersey/

I genuinely thought that was a spoof.

[Glory Lurker]

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I genuinely thought that was a spoof.

Aye! I checked it for coverage elsewhere before posting. Modern football eating itself (but no doubt coming out stronger as a result, sadly).

[Bishop Hibee]

They made the jump from no shirt sponsor to sell anything on the shirt quickly
In the eyes of their fans there is no doubt they are "more than a club". I watched an "el classico" in a Catalan village pub a few years back and the whole village was packed into the boozer. Amazing atmosphere and firecrackers let off in the village square as Barca won 0-2.

There is no doubt the corporate whoring of the club and the number of tourist fans makes it more similar to other European giants like Man Utd or Real Madrid. It's all about the money and the history and the attachment of the true fan are allowed to or even encouraged to wither away.

[Hibee Ryan]

I read it has a play on their slogan "Intel inside" i.e it's inside the strips helping to run it like with their computers? no?

[Peevemor]

The fact that we're discussing this on here shows that it's already working in terms of publicity.

[Hibercelona]

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The fact that we're discussing this on here shows that it's already working in terms of publicity.

Exactly.

They've done something differently and it's picking up attention.

[Glory Lurker]

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The fact that we're discussing this on here shows that it's already working in terms of publicity.

You're absolutely bang on, fair point. The fact Barca has given the platform for this, though, IMHO shoots to shreds any argument that they are any different from the rest of the fat cat European football hierarchy.

[Pretty Boy]

Unfortunately the money crazy world of modern football means a club can't afford to have principles. Barcelona simply have to make money from corporate sponsorship.

Of course my sympathy is limited because it's because of clubs like Barcelona and their big team clique pals who have helped bring about such a situation by looking after their own self interest at the expense of everybody else.

[NAE NOOKIE]

Mental ..... But good for Barcelona, their marketing guys must be brilliant.

Nice to know that when you buy a computer its helping mega rich Barcelona get mega richer.

Advertising does work though ..... I saw a guy with MESSI on the back of his Barcelona shirt and didnt hoover for a week

[LancsHibs]

Viva Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona!

[Rick Rude]

Think I preferred the getafe version from a few years ago - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...-King-kit.html

[Waxy]

Everytime i read a story like this, a bit passion for the game in taken out of me.

[Waxy]

What will happen next.Intel paying a huge sum to change from Barcelona B to Intel rovers?
I hope a club never sells its soul and chucks its name for corporate type rebrand.That'd be time to chuck the game.

[Pretty Boy]

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Everytime i read a story like this, a bit passion for the game in taken out of me.

Yep.

I just devote all my football time to watching Hibs now. Occasionally watch MOTD but haven't watched a full English, Spanish etc game for months.

**** them all. There has always been naturally bigger clubs but the way the clubs at the top of the game, new and old money alike, have manipulated everything to further their own agendas over the last couple of decades makes me sick.

I really wish they would all piss off and start an elite league featuring the Manchester Derby live from Dubai, El Clasico brought to you from Qatar and Bayern v Arsenal all the way from New York. The rest of us can just get on with it in peace.

[J-C]

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Won't the players get booked for lifting their shirts when celebrating a goal?

Especially if it's going to reveal a commercial logo.

No, you only get booked if you have a message on a vest underneath, this looks like it's part of the top, so will already be approved

[NAE NOOKIE]

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Viva Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona!

This for me too.

Unfortunately I'm drawn to the underdogs. I know a few folk who have been to Barcelona and Munich and and always come back with the usual Barcelona and Bayern Munich stuff. If it was me it would be the Espanyol and 1860 Munich stuff.

Think its coz I cant help being on the side of the wee teams

[Jonnyboy]

Big deal. I hear Hearts have a new sponsor for the inside of their shirts. Mothercare

[weonlywon6-2]

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Jesus Christ, what's the point in that?!

Well they do score lpads of goals and they must be hoping the players lift their tops a lot,do that at Hibs and you will see it twice a year !

[weonlywon6-2]

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Jesus Christ, what's the point in that?!

Well they do score loads of goals and they must be hoping the players lift their tops a lot,do that at Hibs and you will see it twice a year !

[Jones28]

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Well they do score loads of goals and they must be hoping the players lift their tops a lot,do that at Hibs and you will see it twice a year !

Thought that was a bookable offence these days though?

[green.and.white]

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Everytime i read a story like this, a bit passion for the game in taken out of me.

Why? If Hibs were offered a tonne of money to have a sponsor on the inside of our shirts, wouldn't you want the club to accept as well?

[Bishop Hibee]

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What will happen next.Intel paying a huge sum to change from Barcelona B to Intel rovers?
I hope a club never sells its soul and chucks its name for corporate type rebrand.That'd be time to chuck the game.

It's happened already http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Red_Bull_Salzburg

Thankfully, the spirit of the real Austria Salzburg was not allowed to die http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SV_Austria_Salzburg

All fans must be vigilant as to the ownership of their club. Wonga of Midlothian anyone

[jacomo]

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They made the jump from no shirt sponsor to sell anything on the shirt quickly
In the eyes of their fans there is no doubt they are "more than a club". I watched an "el classico" in a Catalan village pub a few years back and the whole village was packed into the boozer. Amazing atmosphere and firecrackers let off in the village square as Barca won 0-2.

There is no doubt the corporate whoring of the club and the number of tourist fans makes it more similar to other European giants like Man Utd or Real Madrid. It's all about the money and the history and the attachment of the true fan are allowed to or even encouraged to wither away.

[Jones28]

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Why? If Hibs were offered a tonne of money to have a sponsor on the inside of our shirts, wouldn't you want the club to accept as well?

I wouldn't.

In the same way I don't much care for stadium sponsorship.

[VivaHiberña]

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You're absolutely bang on, fair point. The fact Barca has given the platform for this, though, IMHO shoots to shreds any argument that they are any different from the rest of the fat cat European football hierarchy.

Bang on. I've always found they're cringey "mes que un club" nonsense on par with Celtc and Liverpool's desperate victim-status attention-seeking.
The Catalan flags on shirts/this season's away kit I find particularly distasteful; I have a lot of sympathy for Catalan separatism and feel any team should be able to celebrate its roots, history and where they're from but what Barcelona are doing is playing politics, which no football club should do. It's as bad as the tricolour cuffs and collars on Celtc's away kit last season IMO.

/rant over

[green.and.white]

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I wouldn't.

In the same way I don't much care for stadium sponsorship.

Bit of a difference changing the name of the stadium compared to having a sponsor on the inside of the shirt that one one will see though.

[Gatecrasher]

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I wouldn't.

In the same way I don't much care for stadium sponsorship.

The same way some of the French tops have as much sponsorship as an F1 car I'd hate to see our tops like that.

http://www.football-shirts.co.uk/fan...gue-1314_22233