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Sportpesa shirt sponsor a good idea?

Sportpesa shirt sponsor a good idea?

  • Yes

    Votes: 57 30.6%

  • No

    Votes: 108 58.1%

  • Cheesed off

    Votes: 21 11.3%
  • Total voters
    186
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killenefc said:
Maybe read the part where it says all THE Evertonians. Some things should be more important than just money. Way the worlds gone though I guess.
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Money = success. You want to win things? You need to spend. To be able to spend, you need sponsorships so you stay within the rules of FFP.
 
chrismpw said:
It's not quite the same. You get something tacit back for many if the things you list, and you have a good idea what it will cost and how many you'll buy. You know how many matches you want tickets for in a season, and you don't buy the tickets in the hope, sold to you, that it will be the end of your problems.
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You can substitute gambling for food or booze, something that some people lean on as a crutch at an extreme physical & mental cost to both themselves and the people in their lives. Both of them are products that Everton actively sell and although it's a while since I've been to Goodison I doubt that the club pay too much attention to sugar levels and liver function amongst their customers while happily fleecing them for said products.

It's sad that people have problems with addiction but that is where the problem lies IMO. Addiction and not gambling itself - It's not something that's addictive no matter what, many people can walk away from it. Although I would say that gambling companies are more than willing to encourage and prey upon those worst affected by addiction problems. But that's a stance as old as selling anything be it clothes, food, booze gambling or sex.

chrismpw said:
In Everton's case it's likely to be the start of your problems, but that's a different mattwrm
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I agree with that:D
 
Gambling doesn't bother me, I like a bet, I'm not gonna start banging a weeks wages chasing bets because there's an advert on our shirt, just like I haven't turned into a piss drinking mess because I've been subjected to Chang for 10 years, people make their own choices regardless of what advert they've seen, i'd draw the line on pay day loans though, now that is a corporation that prays solely on the vulnerable
 

Canuck Darryl said:
It's OK I guess...if they cough up a ton of cash, it will be a good thing. It's just not the image I think of, when I think about Everton. We're should try to aim higher and a gambling site is just not classy enough for me.

Mind you Chang is not exactly a Fortune 500 outfit, either.
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When your splashing the name of a company across the shirt in exchange for money there's nothing that's gonna be classy. Even Barca got there in the end by charitably breaking with tradition and putting Unicef on their previously unsullied shirts - it was just to break that tradition and get something on the shirt, very badly disguised as a grand act of philanthropy.
 
Really dont want us to have anything to do with gambling, but lets be honest, me not buying a shirt because i dont like the sponsor logo isnt going to make any differance, anyway we already take Murdochs money!
 

toffeeblue9 said:
My lad won't wear anything except football shirts at the minute

All he wants is the European teams he knows - PSG, Bayern Munich, Barca, Real Madrid, Juve, AC Milan etc etc etc

On not one occasion has the subject of who sponsors them been raised

Our profile will be raised by us winning stuff and playing in Europe - I would venture that the sponsor on the front of the shirt will have next to no impact on someone's choice to buy a shirt
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WA Toffee said:
To be perfectly honest, out of those clubs you mention above, I have just spent a couple of minutes thinking about it, and Barca and Milan are the only ones where I could name the sponsor with 100% conviction (and my son has got a psg, bayern and real shirt). I will google the real madrid shirt sponsor in a minute and will think "of course it is" , but off hand I honestly can't name their sponsor (I have a feeling it is emirates though)

I may be the odd one out, but I really don't think people will buy, or refuse to buy, a shirt because of the sponsor
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Even though it's very anecdotal when I wore a jersey to school many years ago the first thing someone mentioned to me was the sponsor. They actually thought it was the team name. If you think about it, it's like ten times the size of the badge.

Also whenever I wear anything Everton the first thing I hear (mainly from women incidentally) is "Oooh look at the elephants, I like it!" All these things happening in the states.

I wouldn't say a sponsor is the deciding factor but I definitely don't think @Kenshin is off base if he claims it's a part of "ignorant" people's decision making or whether something artistic or recognizable will draw more people's attention.
 
billytoffee said:
Thankfully I wouldn't know Lou ! I'm not a "drinker" - I choose not to - and funnily enough, the fact that our shirt has been sponsored by a booze company has not turned to me into an alchy.
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Woah, stop the press.

So what you're saying, is that when you see something advertised you don't have to buy or do what they say? When did this come out?
 
I am certain I read somewhere that this mob had already agreed a deal with some one else.
 

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