New Sponsors announced: Intuit QuickBooks

[Louzie0]

I realise this post is not about the actual shirt right now but it is about the approach to Club sponsorship in the future.



Note to Tom Fox:

Go for a Greater Birmingham combined and conglomerate sponsor next time and change the name of the venue/business on the shirt every month. Who says it has to be the same name every month?

Month 1 being Acorns, sponsored by everybody.

Other months:

Jag
The Rep
Sarehole Mill ( Lord Of The Rings)
Symphony Hall
BullRing
Sutton Park
Custard Factory
NEC


And others added, like Birmingham Airport, Hippodrome, Alexandra, Library, Royal Ballet, Edgbaston, BMAG, Royal Warwickshire Regiment Of Fusiliers, Crescent, Electric Cinema, local and international Banks, the Arena, Seaworld, Robin, Safari Park, local Town Halls etc to fill the next ooooh, 10 years.

[Leighton]

I love how many experienced marketing executives/consultants come on to these new sponsor threads and give us their words of wisdom. It must be really easy to get a lucrative zillion dollar sponsorship deal by the looks of things.

For what its worth I think that we should have Sony as our new sponsor and they will be willing to pay us £100,000,000 per match. Just sort it out Tom! 

[dicedlam]

Let's not be too quick to judge, perhaps they do special effects for films and television...

Still, look on the bright side.

Someone whose family made their fortune by the extreme marketing of debt and credit cards (and anyone with an MBNA card will know all about this) owns a club which is sponsored by a company which encourages currency speculation, the name of which will be on shirts made by 12 year olds in sweat shops, in a league the main sponsor of which was a notable contributor to the recent financial meltdown, covered on television by a company largely owned by someone whose newspapers are into hacking the phones of dead teenagers, playing in a sport governed by a body which currently is being revealed to have a moral legitimacy as laughable as that of ISIS, which is organising its showcase tournament to play in a rampantly homophobic totalitarian state in 2018, and one which, incredibly, is even less desirable in 2022, on account of them having paid most money for it, and is building the stadiums using slave labour who have an annoying habit of dying, but are easily deprived of the most basic human rights, the whole tournament to be sponsored by a collection of brewers, Russian oil companies whose owners stole their wealth from the Russian people,  and credit card companies who have somehow managed to look the other way not only whilst all this shit goes on, but over the last several decades whilst FIFA were busy engaging in financial racketeering.

Given that, misgivings over the shirt sponsor are just the tip of the iceberg.

Brilliant.

[adrenachrome]

Let's not be too quick to judge, perhaps they do special effects for films and television...

Still, look on the bright side.

Someone whose family made their fortune by the extreme marketing of debt and credit cards (and anyone with an MBNA card will know all about this) owns a club which is sponsored by a company which encourages currency speculation, the name of which will be on shirts made by 12 year olds in sweat shops, in a league the main sponsor of which was a notable contributor to the recent financial meltdown, covered on television by a company largely owned by someone whose newspapers are into hacking the phones of dead teenagers, playing in a sport governed by a body which currently is being revealed to have a moral legitimacy as laughable as that of ISIS, which is organising its showcase tournament to play in a rampantly homophobic totalitarian state in 2018, and one which, incredibly, is even less desirable in 2022, on account of them having paid most money for it, and is building the stadiums using slave labour who have an annoying habit of dying, but are easily deprived of the most basic human rights, the whole tournament to be sponsored by a collection of brewers, Russian oil companies whose owners stole their wealth from the Russian people,  and credit card companies who have somehow managed to look the other way not only whilst all this shit goes on, but over the last several decades whilst FIFA were busy engaging in financial racketeering.

Given that, misgivings over the shirt sponsor are just the tip of the iceberg.

Brilliant.

Most assuredly. 

[Malandro]

Let's not be too quick to judge, perhaps they do special effects for films and television...

Still, look on the bright side.

Someone whose family made their fortune by the extreme marketing of debt and credit cards (and anyone with an MBNA card will know all about this) owns a club which is sponsored by a company which encourages currency speculation, the name of which will be on shirts made by 12 year olds in sweat shops, in a league the main sponsor of which was a notable contributor to the recent financial meltdown, covered on television by a company largely owned by someone whose newspapers are into hacking the phones of dead teenagers, playing in a sport governed by a body which currently is being revealed to have a moral legitimacy as laughable as that of ISIS, which is organising its showcase tournament to play in a rampantly homophobic totalitarian state in 2018, and one which, incredibly, is even less desirable in 2022, on account of them having paid most money for it, and is building the stadiums using slave labour who have an annoying habit of dying, but are easily deprived of the most basic human rights, the whole tournament to be sponsored by a collection of brewers, Russian oil companies whose owners stole their wealth from the Russian people,  and credit card companies who have somehow managed to look the other way not only whilst all this shit goes on, but over the last several decades whilst FIFA were busy engaging in financial racketeering.

Given that, misgivings over the shirt sponsor are just the tip of the iceberg.

Brilliant.

Most assuredly. 

Very good

[Mac]

This is doing the rounds tonight. Too West Ham for me.

Ooh you tease, the link doesn't work.

OK it does now.

That is clearly done by that graphic designer chap who pops up every year with shirt mock ups at about this time.

See the drop shadow, for example.

It's more of an "Outer Glow" than a "Drop Shadow" ;-)

[placeforparks]

Anything but a betting company or loan ripoff company. Something ethical.

This lot, apparently:

http://fxworld.trade/

How does currency speculation grab you?

and they're based in the tax haven of anguilla.

[TopDeck113]

Let's not be too quick to judge, perhaps they do special effects for films and television...

Still, look on the bright side.

Someone whose family made their fortune by the extreme marketing of debt and credit cards (and anyone with an MBNA card will know all about this) owns a club which is sponsored by a company which encourages currency speculation, the name of which will be on shirts made by 12 year olds in sweat shops, in a league the main sponsor of which was a notable contributor to the recent financial meltdown, covered on television by a company largely owned by someone whose newspapers are into hacking the phones of dead teenagers, playing in a sport governed by a body which currently is being revealed to have a moral legitimacy as laughable as that of ISIS, which is organising its showcase tournament to play in a rampantly homophobic totalitarian state in 2018, and one which, incredibly, is even less desirable in 2022, on account of them having paid most money for it, and is building the stadiums using slave labour who have an annoying habit of dying, but are easily deprived of the most basic human rights, the whole tournament to be sponsored by a collection of brewers, Russian oil companies whose owners stole their wealth from the Russian people,  and credit card companies who have somehow managed to look the other way not only whilst all this shit goes on, but over the last several decades whilst FIFA were busy engaging in financial racketeering.

Given that, misgivings over the shirt sponsor are just the tip of the iceberg.

Brilliant.

Most assuredly. 

Very good

Early contender for Post-of-the-Close-Season.

[el león Benidorm]

Let's not be too quick to judge, perhaps they do special effects for films and television...

Still, look on the bright side.

Someone whose family made their fortune by the extreme marketing of debt and credit cards (and anyone with an MBNA card will know all about this) owns a club which is sponsored by a company which encourages currency speculation, the name of which will be on shirts made by 12 year olds in sweat shops, in a league the main sponsor of which was a notable contributor to the recent financial meltdown, covered on television by a company largely owned by someone whose newspapers are into hacking the phones of dead teenagers, playing in a sport governed by a body which currently is being revealed to have a moral legitimacy as laughable as that of ISIS, which is organising its showcase tournament to play in a rampantly homophobic totalitarian state in 2018, and one which, incredibly, is even less desirable in 2022, on account of them having paid most money for it, and is building the stadiums using slave labour who have an annoying habit of dying, but are easily deprived of the most basic human rights, the whole tournament to be sponsored by a collection of brewers, Russian oil companies whose owners stole their wealth from the Russian people,  and credit card companies who have somehow managed to look the other way not only whilst all this shit goes on, but over the last several decades whilst FIFA were busy engaging in financial racketeering.

Given that, misgivings over the shirt sponsor are just the tip of the iceberg.

Brilliant.

Most assuredly. 

Very good

Early contender for Post-of-the-Close-Season.

Well said that man!!

[villa `cross the mersey]

Would be great for pharmaceutical manufacturers, Pfizer to sponsor us and change our name to....  Aston Viagra

At least we would stay up 

[exigo]

BREAKING NEWS: We are delighted to announce @QuickBooksUK as our main club partner for the next two seasons.

Erm, didn't look great on last year's Baggies shirt.

[The Laughing Policeman]

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~4779781,00.html

[Mister E]

BREAKING NEWS: We are delighted to announce @QuickBooksUK as our main club partner for the next two seasons.

Erm, didn't look great on last year's Baggies shirt.

Previous Bitter's sponsor? - not exactly great provenance, is it?

[manic-road]

BREAKING NEWS: We are delighted to announce @QuickBooksUK as our main club partner for the next two seasons.

Erm, didn't look great on last year's Baggies shirt.

Previous Bitter's sponsor? - not exactly great provenance, is it?

For the sponsors we will be a major step up from the Tesco bags.

[dave.woodhall]

I don't care who they are and what their name looks like on a shirt as long as the money's good.