Newcastle's away kit for next season has been revealed... through the medium of a rather sultry looking Steven Taylor. He must have been working on his pout. It's the first Magpies shirt to be released since a controversial sponsorship deal with payday loan company Wonga.com was announced. The Puma kit comes in an insignia blue [.
Derek LLambias was forced to defend his decision to sign a sponsorship deal with Wonga, the pay-day loan company, and Derek says the club did background research into the company, and found nothing wrong with the way they do business. Alan Pardew and Derek LLambias at news conference yesterday The deal has the Newcastle City [.
There's a theory being put forward in some quarters (it was mostly flippantly pointed out on Twitter when the deal was announced) that Newcastle may lose devout Muslim quartet Demba Ba, Papiss Cisse, Cheick Tiote and Hatem Ben Arfa after signing a shirt sponsorship deal that may just infringe Sharia law.
Newcastle's Muslim players have been warned that wearing shirts bearing the logo of new sponsors Wonga would infringe Sharia law. The Magpies announced a £24 million deal with the payday loan company yesterday. Now the Muslim Council of Britain has spoken out to warn the likes of Demba Ba, Papiss Cisse, Cheick Tiote and Hatem [.
It seems that Newcastle United have somehow managed to pull off yet another sponsorship deal with
sportwear giant, Sports Direct, this time for the club's training kits. This adds to the company's
existing sponsorship of St James' Park stadium, the pitchside hoardings, the roof, the walls, the
players' tunnels, the dugouts, the Benton training ground, [.
With football teams at lower levels beginning to feel the effects of the recession, despite leagues such as the Premier League remaining wilfully ignorant, clubs are going to further and further levels in order to raise some much needed cash. Greek team Voukefala, who hail from Larissa, have perhaps gone one stage too far, however.
England have announced a new sponsorship deal with leading sports giant
Nike, who will feature on the first England Nike design in spring
of next year, ending the associations partnership with Umbro.
Nike will become just the third shirt designers for the England national team having also wore
Admiral shirts in the past.
A couple of days after Sheffield United announced that soon their fans would be able to take a
seat in Jessica Ennis' lower tier comes the news that Burnley are to rename one of
the stands at Turf Moor after signing a sponsorship deal with a Lancashire company that specialises
in electronic cigarettes and the like.
Yesterday was a day for strange stand name changes. After we brought you news of Sheffield United
naming a stand in honour of Jessica Ennis, that turned out to be the second weirdest one of the
day. Because Championship side Burnley have signed a sponsorship deal with Totally Wicked, the
makers of a range of [.
Following the Jamaica Football Federation renewal of its technical sponsorship deal with Kappa for
a three-year period in January, the Jamaica 2012/13 home and away jerseys have been launched.
Both...
Danish powerhouse F.C. Copenhagen (also known as F.C. København or FCK) recently signed a four
year technical sponsorship deal with adidas. Løverne (The Lions) have since launched their adidas
2012/13...
Defending German Bundesliga and DFB Pokal champions Borussia Dortmund signed a technical
sponsorship deal with PUMA in October 2011. The club has now unveiled its 2012/12 PUMA home, away
and...
Back in May, French Ligue 1 club FC Girondins de Bordeaux (usually referred to as just Bordeaux)
extended its technical sponsorship deal with Germany's PUMA for another eight years. The...
After a year of wearing Burrda gear, 2009/10 Dutch Eredivisie champions FC Twente have signed a
technical sponsorship deal with American sportswear giant Nike. On Sunday, soccer fans were
given...
Scottish Premier League side Heart of Midlothian FC (commonly referred to as Hearts FC) signed a
technical sponsorship deal with adidas last week after using Umbro gear for last season....
After wearing adidas kits over the last six season, Liverpool FC signed a reported £150m ($232m)
technical sponsorship deal with Michigan-based Warrior Sports in January. As the firm known for...
French Ligue 1 club FC Girondins de Bordeaux (usually referred to as just Bordeaux) extended its
long-running technical sponsorship deal with Germany's PUMA for another eight years last week.
The...
Manchester United's seven-year shirt sponsorship deal with General Motors' Chevrolet brand is worth
a record-breaking $559m (£357m), which is about £51m a year.
Manchester United's new shirt sponsorship deal with Chevrolet is worth an "incredible" $559
million under its seven-year shirt sponsorship agreement.
Chevrolet takes over from the insurer Aon starting with the 2014-15 season. Manchester United
said it will receive $70 million during the first season of the new deal.
Almost immediately after announcing a seven-year shirt sponsorship deal with Chevrolet worth an
estimated £200 million the Glazer family pushed ahead with their much maligned plan to unleash a
Manchester United IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. From the first rumor of the move, fans and
media have been united in questioning it.
The problem with a fundamental breakdown in trust is that whatever the motives may be for any of
the parties concerned, they will be viewed with suspicion by those on the other side. Even with our
most level of heads on, however, it is difficult not to view the timing of the resubmission of
Manchester Uniteds proposed Initial Public Offering (IPO) with at least one eyebrow raised, and
coming, as it does, the day after the announcement of a lucrative shirt sponsorship deal with the
Chevrolet car company.
Manchester United have surpassed Barcelona's £125m world record shirt sponsorship deal with the
Qatar Foundation by striking a seven-year shirt agreement with Chevrolet worth in excess of
£25m-a-year.
United, whose current £20m-a-year shirt deal with the American insurance giant Aon still has
two seasons left to run, will begin their partnership with Chevrolet at the start of the 2014-15
campaign.
Ducky's Note: Keeping with out string of really random posts form here and then here,
Bhavin throws in his hat into the fray with a prediction of the news items that
will make headlines next season. As a Roma (yes!) and Arsenal fan, Bhavin is that guy who became a
goalie for his college team cos he sucked as an outfield player.
Around this time last summer, Manchester City, owned by a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family,
signed the richest sponsorship deal in the history of sports with Etihad Airways, owned by the Abu
Dhabi royal family. This was seen as a convenient and somewhat blatant way for a big-spender to get
around UEFA's impending Financial Fair Play rules, which require clubs to balance their books and
break even, with the help of a friend (or family).
Pepsi and Coca-Cola are still at each other's throats after all these years. Who knew? Word is
coming in from Brazil this morning that Coke have pulled the plug on Ronaldinho's $750,000-a-year
sponsorship deal after he gave a press conference for his latest club, Atletico Mineiro, from
behind a couple of cans of Pepsi -Â Pepsi being an official sponsor of Mineiro and all.
A little more than a month after leaving Flamengo over unpaid wages, Ronaldinho is the one being
accused of breaching contracts as Coca-Cola ends his lucrative sponsorship deal less than a year
after it was signed. The breaking point for the R$1.5M ($737,400) a year deal that was to run
through the 2014 World Cup in Brazil was apparently that Ronaldinho appeared with cans of Pepsi, a
sponsor of his new club Atletico Mineiro, at press conferences.
FC Dallas announced a multi-year, multi-million-dollar jersey sponsorship deal with AdvoCare, a
Plano, Texas-based health and wellness company. Financial terms of the deal, the first jersey
sponsorship deal in team history, were not disclosed, but it will last for three and a half
years.
I will skip the long preamble for this 3 questions piece because I know how most of you feel
about FC Dallas, and it's the same way I feel about them. You don't need my prose to stoke the
proverbial fires (pun intended) for "Hate Week". That's right folks, we get not 1 but 2 bitter
enemies in the same week.
Gold-medal gymnast Aly Raisman was one of our faves to watch during the Olympics so was happy to read she signed her first major endorsement deal since returning from the London.
The Needham, Mass., native this week signed a one-year deal to endorse Poland Spring water. The gymnast and Maine-based beverages company announced the deal Monday outside Needham Town Hall, which sported a banner congratulating the 18-year-old for her medals.
Kendal Town FC have signed possibly the weirdest sponsorship deal, with American firm Rosetta.
Rosetta make a product called the 'Beard Beardie', a woolly hat that includes a fake beard to keep
the face warm. And they look ridiculous. The Beard Beanies seem like an April Fools joke product,
but apparently they have had huge [.
Northern Premier League side Kendal Town FC have signed a frankly ridiculous sponsorship deal
that will see the players having wear fake beards at all times training, travelling and
warming-up.
Kendal have signed a deal with US firm Rosetta Trading, who produce the 'Beard Beanie' a woolly
hat with a knitted beard stitched onto it which are apparently massive sellers in the USA according
to Rosetta themselves.
With Rangers entry into Division Three now all but confirmed, football shirt expert Steven Dow
takes a look at an unexpected consequence - and identifies some winners - from Scottish football's
summer of uncertainty:
On the face of it, they are just two thin pieces of material that heat seal onto a football shirt.
Uefa announce new official sponsorship deal with Paddy Power Pants
By Walter Broeckx
Somehow Nicklas Bendtner has something with his underpants. A few years ago we had the incident
when after a game he was being caught with his trousers at knee height when leaving a club and
showing his underpants.
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