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By: Ebbsfleet United - A Different Kind of Football Club | Eurocritics Magazine

Ebbsfleet United - A Different Kind of Football Club | Eurocritics Magazine — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:04:56 +0000

[...] as an antidote to the increasingly pervasive influence of big business in football, I have recently joined the over 30,000 football fans from 122 different countries that have [...]

By: Christopher Rose

Christopher Rose — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:56:25 +0000

Hi Dave,

Yeah, how about those Welsh football teams?

Romantic stuff for such a poetic nation, eh? What next, renaming poems or something? How about Under Cravendale Wood instead of Under Milk Wood?

By: Dave Jennings

Dave Jennings — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:09:01 +0000

I’ve long since resigned myself to the idea that watching football now involves going into a ground renamed after a sponsor, sitting in a stand named after another sponsor, and watching two teams with sponsors’ logos on their shirts playing in competitions bearing yet more sponsors’ names. Such is the cost in dignity of affording players’ wages. There is, however, a line that should never be crossed, and your story hints at it: the renaming of clubs after sponsors. Please, dear footie authorities, let us in England and Scotland never reach the depths of depravity plumbed in the League of Wales, where fixtures between Airbus UK and Total Network Solutions have been known. What did the fans chant? ‘Come on you Solutions’ just doesn’t sound right, does it?

Though I did admire the ingenuity shown by the latter club when their deal with the communications company ended: they’d been known as T.N.S. for years, so they invented a new name to fit the initials. Smart move, The New Saints FC!

By: Blogsvine

Blogsvine — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:48:29 +0000

Football is Big Business | Eurocritics Magazine…

How one small football fan fought the law – and the law lost interest – plus how corporatism is overwhelming the world’s greatest game….