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Living In a Fantasy World said:
Well I've had 2 shirts were the sponsors have come off, and some of have started to tear over time for me, like the macron icons on the sleeves have started to peel off in recent shirts.
So you keep your wear very good condition compared to me :p
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If they aint peeling off then they certainly fade. The capital one gaffer tape sponsor for one and i know people who had the HFS loan and Desun sponsors peel away.

Like I have mentioned before Wards was our best sponsor as it was part of the actual shirt and not something that was an ironed on after thought.
 
My Capitol One black and white shirt's logo came of first wash and it smells funny even after washing.
 
sheffielder said:
I don't care if it's Wonga or quick quid. Whatever keeps us floating. These companies take money from stupid people who take loans off them. Why shouldn't anyone take sponsorship money from them?
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not really. they take money off poor people. a subtle difference, but an important one.
if youve spent all your money on bills, then obviously youre going to use these people rather than have no money for a week.

ive used money shop about 3 times, though not in the last 8 years, and i knew it was a rip off. i can read. i can add up. its not hard to work out. once i was waiting on a delayed payment for a contract of around 5k, the bank refused to increase my overdraft. so it made more sense to pay the money shop £25 (or whatever it was) interest for a 1 month loan than pay my bank £25 every single day in charges!
 
Bladesman said:
If they aint peeling off then they certainly fade. The capital one gaffer tape sponsor for one and i know people who had the HFS loan and Desun sponsors peel away.

Like I have mentioned before Wards was our best sponsor as it was part of the actual shirt and not something that was an ironed on after thought.
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That Desun sponsor lasted around a week :eek: bloody great that was.
 
Living In a Fantasy World said:
Well I've had 2 shirts were the sponsors have come off, and some of have started to tear over time for me, like the macron icons on the sleeves have started to peel off in recent shirts.
So you keep your wear very good condition compared to me :p
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Bladesman said:
If they aint peeling off then they certainly fade. The capital one gaffer tape sponsor for one and i know people who had the HFS loan and Desun sponsors peel away.

Like I have mentioned before Wards was our best sponsor as it was part of the actual shirt and not something that was an ironed on after thought.
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I don't understand why I see so many people with the print peeling off their shirts. I don't wash them in any special way, just wash them inside out at 40° along with the rest of my washing. Even that mousemat Desun sponsor stayed firmly in place. Haven't even had any problems with the fake shirts that I've bought from Thailand.

I agree about the Wards sponsor though, this home shirt is the best one we've ever had IMO. I was only about 12 or 13 when it was out though so it obviously doesn't fit me any more. Would love it if I could get this again in my size.

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Agreed, its not the most desirable of sponsors but its not like its that much worse than other sponsors we've had is it? Over the last few years we've had adverts for credit cards, beers and a loan company and an online gambling site. Don't remember too much outcry about 'the kids' then.

Out of interest Is this better or worse than "Blades United" or whatever the hell we called it when we sponsored ourselves.
 
I don't think it makes any difference if we have an online betting company, payday lender or Arnold lavers timber yard on the front of our shirt. If the company provides a service that people need then they will use it, and it makes more sense for our club to bring in more money through a sponsorship deal however unpalatable the lender is.

We had Capitol One for a couple of years. A credit card lender who charge a big rate of APR, and a few years ago MBNA did a Sheffield United credit card at a hefty rate of interest as well
 
Ethics and football parted company a long time ago (or when the PLwas formed ) which we were ,of course, inaugural members of and is now fittingly sponsored by a bank. I think we have to shrug and bear it , for all I know de-sun manufactured chemical weapons, I know Wards did !
 
I'm sure there's a South Yorkshire Pro's forum somewhere where the topic is the declining quality of John. It'd get about the same amount of sympathy.
 
TAMUS said:
Exploiting the thick , stupid and vunerable to make the rich richer its just wong ..
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Given what we put up with as blades fans but we keep turning up, paying good money to watch the blades probably think they have found a perfect target market :-)
 
Is this for real? Just when I thought we couldn't sink any lower...

Where will the money for SUFC in such a deal come from? The answer is from the poor and the vulnerable paying disgustingly high interest rates.

Tell me it ain't so. :(
 
There's nothing about it on the news, are people just assuming that we'd be bunking up with Wednesday again and they've turned one down, whereas we are desperate so haven't?

I'm loving the thread though, quite fascinating reading what some fans of a "working class, family club" think of the some of the most desperate people in society. All in the name of signing another League 1 journeyman.

If United, and it's a big if, agreed with any payday lender, then I will feel part of me has been ripped away. It's just immoral. People can compare with previous sponsors and in a way they are correct (yet we're all underwhelmed to be sponsored by a car dealership) but payday lenders are something else born out of the sheer desperation of people in a panic at the worst possible time, seemingly aimed at keeping the people desperate rather than helping them get out of the hole they're in long-term.
 



Come off it Star, what about that poor little old slightly disabled old lady who's car is essential for her to get around?
 
grafikhaus said:
Quite. Or the people on 'Skint' (for those who haven't seen it, they make Jeremy Kyle look like Downton Abbey).
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It's come out though that "Skint" has largely been set-up by TV producers desperate for another shock-u-mentary....they have scraped the bottom of the barrell so much that there's no barrell left so they now target under-privilaged estates and ply them with crates of stella and bags of weed, then sit back, start the cameras rolling and watch the carnage unfold.......pathetic.
 
Just to throw this out there...

For those who think it doesn't matter whose name United have on their shirts as long as they pay the money; would they be equally happy to have the names of Chariots Gay Sauna or La Chambre Swingers' Club emblazoned across the famous red and white stripes?
 
Torrix1889 said:
It's come out though that "Skint" has largely been set-up by TV producers desperate for another shock-u-mentary....
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No way! Tv producers in being a bunch of twats shocker...

Darren said:
Just to throw this out there...

For those who think it doesn't matter whose name United have on their shirts as long as they pay the money; would they be equally happy to have the names of Chariots Gay Sauna or La Chambre Swingers' Club emblazoned across the famous red and white stripes?
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I can honestly say I couldn`t give a shit. They can run around with COCK written on the shirts for all I care.

A bigger issue is if SUFC are making any sort of claim to being a "Family Club" anymore. If they are then arguably, Payday Loans companies, Swingers Clubs, Gambling, and Booze (I'm sure there are more) should be off the table in terms of sponsors
 
Darren said:
Just to throw this out there...

For those who think it doesn't matter whose name United have on their shirts as long as they pay the money; would they be equally happy to have the names of Chariots Gay Sauna or La Chambre Swingers' Club emblazoned across the famous red and white stripes?
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Don't joke about it, there was a brothel in Greece that sponsored a league team!!
 
Woodwaaard said:
Sometimes I really, really wonder about the sanity of some SUFC decision makers

Our S6 bretheren have turned down an approach from a Pay-day loan company and guess what?.....................That's right, we think it's a great idea and have signed up the same company

A Pay-day loan company for F***s sake!

Yes it's true folks, SUFC thinks it's a good idea to promote 2000% APR* interest loans to their fans and the wider viewing public (* guesstimate, but you get the drift)

You stupid, stupid, stupid commercial people

I hope our replica shirt sales are zero

A usually tolerant but currently apoplectic Woodwaaard
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Fuck it. Get the sponsor who works within the law and gives us most cash. When clubs are happy to pay £100,000 per day to a player to kick wind about, and we're happy to watch, I don't think it's the place to get too moral.

If you're too thick to work out the consequences of 2000% APR, then the world is better of without you anyway.

:)

UTB
 
Darren said:
Just to throw this out there...

For those who think it doesn't matter whose name United have on their shirts as long as they pay the money; would they be equally happy to have the names of Chariots Gay Sauna or La Chambre Swingers' Club emblazoned across the famous red and white stripes?
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Would they offer quid a kid? :eek:
 
madeinsheffield said:
Don't joke about it, there was a brothel in Greece that sponsored a league team!!
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Actually, in the Blades News that Reg Brealey brought out in the early 80's (all copies lovingly preserved by me in a not at all anal way) there was a regular advert for the Omega sauna and massage parlour (for which read "brothel").

It was Reg, of course, who first decided to call SUFC a "Family Club".
 
SellyOakBlade said:
No way! Tv producers in being a bunch of twats shocker...



I can honestly say I couldn`t give a shit. They can run around with COCK written on the shirts for all I care.

A bigger issue is if SUFC are making any sort of claim to being a "Family Club" anymore. If they are then arguably, Payday Loans companies, Swingers Clubs, Gambling, and Booze (I'm sure there are more) should be off the table in terms of sponsors
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Well, indeed. From a purely commercial point of view, one would think that most football clubs would conclude that the losses in reputation, sales of shirts etc would outweigh the gains to be made from advertising knocking shops. Given the current reputation of payday loan companies, one might well think - even from a completely amoral bottom line point of view - advertising them might have the same effect.
 



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