FIFA's crackdown on non-official sponsors and ambush marketing took a further twist when it was revealed that no players featuring in adverts for rivals of official matchball sponsor Adidas, would be allowed to participate in the World Cup quarter-finals.
The controversy follows hot on the heels of RobbieEarle-gate, which saw 30 Dutch models arrested for the heinous crime of wearing unofficial merchandising.
The clampdown is a blow for Nike, whose self-indulgent ad features the likes of Rooney (England), Ronaldo (Portugal), Cannavaro (Italy), Ronaldinho (Brazil) and Ribery (France).
With only Brazil bowing to FIFA's requirements and leaving out Ronaldinho, it meant a quarter-final stage bereft of most of Europe's top guns - and Portugal.
Under FIFA's wide ranging powers, Roger Federer was also prevented from progressing past the quarter-finals at Wimbledon, because it is on at the same time as the World Cup.
Showing posts with label 2010 World Cup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2010 World Cup. Show all posts
Thursday, 1 July 2010
Friday, 4 December 2009
Southend 6/1 to pay wages on time this month
It wasn't so much a case of Great Expectations as Bleak House.
Having been told to log onto the official web-site for a "special announcement" from 7am on Friday morning, fans were underwhelmed to discover that the odds of us being able to pay the players' wages this month were 6/1 (available with most bookies, 13/2 if you hunt around).
Still, you've got to give credit to the club for trying - because the banks clearly won't.
Having been told to log onto the official web-site for a "special announcement" from 7am on Friday morning, fans were underwhelmed to discover that the odds of us being able to pay the players' wages this month were 6/1 (available with most bookies, 13/2 if you hunt around).
Still, you've got to give credit to the club for trying - because the banks clearly won't.
Friday, 11 September 2009
Echo Exclusive: Local team set to win World Cup
Whilst most of the country celebrated England's stunning victory over Croatia in Friday night by going overboard in suggesting that England would now win the world cup, it was extra special for fans of one local (sic) team.
As everyone knows - because delusional W*** H** fans (Ed: tautology) keep on banging on about it in the hope that if they repeat it enough times it might become true - W*** H** "won" the World Cup in 1966 because Bobby Charlton, Alan Ball, Gordon Banks etc were crap and contributed nothing.
Now W*** H** look like repeating the trick of "winning the World Cup" for a second time because England happen to have qualified with W*** H** providing reserve keeper Rob Green and back-up centre-half Matthew Upson.
With the W*** H** academy having also provided the likes of Frank Lampard (only fulfilled his potential once he moved to Chelsea, despised by Hamsters for moving onto a bigger club); Jermaine Defoe (illegally poached from Charlton, reviled by Hamsters as a Judas); and the dozy defensive duo of Rio Ferdinand and Glenn Jonhson (who are liable to nod off at any moment, that is if Rio remembers to turn up in the first place) we are now set to have to put up with more of this bollocks about the academy of football.
The revelation that Fabio Capello's second cousin's aunt's dog once met the Krays, will only strengthen this link. One Hamster fan took time out of trying to disgrace English football through their riot with Millwall, to add "If Fabio's cousin once met the Krays that's good enough for me. It's well known that Ronnie was an Iron, so Fabio may be Italian, but he's one of us, innit."
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W*** H** to sell World Cup?
W*** H** today confirmed that if they win the World Cup again, like they supposedly did in 1966, that they would sell it. A spokesman said it was in-line with their policy not to hold onto anything valuable, and that if you lived round here, you wouldn't keep anything valuable on you either.
The spokesman went onto dismiss suggestions that it would be difficult to sell without ownership papers, noting that not having the correct paperwork never stopped the Tevez transfer and that even if they got caught, the Premier League would let them off with a slap on the wrist again.
As everyone knows - because delusional W*** H** fans (Ed: tautology) keep on banging on about it in the hope that if they repeat it enough times it might become true - W*** H** "won" the World Cup in 1966 because Bobby Charlton, Alan Ball, Gordon Banks etc were crap and contributed nothing.
Now W*** H** look like repeating the trick of "winning the World Cup" for a second time because England happen to have qualified with W*** H** providing reserve keeper Rob Green and back-up centre-half Matthew Upson.
With the W*** H** academy having also provided the likes of Frank Lampard (only fulfilled his potential once he moved to Chelsea, despised by Hamsters for moving onto a bigger club); Jermaine Defoe (illegally poached from Charlton, reviled by Hamsters as a Judas); and the dozy defensive duo of Rio Ferdinand and Glenn Jonhson (who are liable to nod off at any moment, that is if Rio remembers to turn up in the first place) we are now set to have to put up with more of this bollocks about the academy of football.
The revelation that Fabio Capello's second cousin's aunt's dog once met the Krays, will only strengthen this link. One Hamster fan took time out of trying to disgrace English football through their riot with Millwall, to add "If Fabio's cousin once met the Krays that's good enough for me. It's well known that Ronnie was an Iron, so Fabio may be Italian, but he's one of us, innit."
Related news
W*** H** to sell World Cup?
W*** H** today confirmed that if they win the World Cup again, like they supposedly did in 1966, that they would sell it. A spokesman said it was in-line with their policy not to hold onto anything valuable, and that if you lived round here, you wouldn't keep anything valuable on you either.
The spokesman went onto dismiss suggestions that it would be difficult to sell without ownership papers, noting that not having the correct paperwork never stopped the Tevez transfer and that even if they got caught, the Premier League would let them off with a slap on the wrist again.
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