Hypocritical Football Sponsorship

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Bookies and alcohol companies sponsoring footie.

I’ve just seen an excellent interview with the legend that is Peter Shilton on how gambling nearly ruined his life.

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Yet we allow gambling and drinking (caveat – I like the sauce) massively to sponsor many sports, including association football.

Do you remember when Blair banned tobacco adverts in sports apart from F1 because of ‘the Bernie’, the million squid that whore fucking m!dget bunged the Labour party?

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No man has ever beaten his wife and family after smoking a pack of 20 Bensons.

However, alcohol and gambling have ruined lives left, right and centre in this otherwise wonderful country.

I despair when I hear that Paddy Power and Carlsberg are the ‘official’ sponsors of my association football club (I’m a Gooner).

Fuck off, you cunts.

Nominated by: Dark key cunt

31 thoughts on “Hypocritical Football Sponsorship”

    • More than half a century ago, my dad said he’d never set foot in a betting shop.
      He said ‘I have enough trouble paying for my own car without paying for some bugger else’s too”
      Gambling is a tax on the mathematically disadvanctaged.

  2. It’s the main reason why I won’t buy a Villa shirt any more. I’m not going to shell out a wad of cash just so that I can act as a walking advert for some cunt or other.
    (at least Villa’s latest sponsors aren’t punting booze or gambling tho).

  3. Good nom.

    Unfortunately the sport formerly known as football, sold it’s soul to the devil a long time ago.

    Ubiquitous gambling advertising is another symptom.

    “Please be gamble aware”
    “When the fun stops – stop!”

    In the mean time come and waste your hard earned money with us.

    Fuck off.

    • There was Ray Winston inviting us all to “bet in-play naaaah” in his ‘I will break your legs’ sort of way. The Peter Shilton interview was an eye opener, he was winning and losing tens of thousand of pounds in an age just before the wages really skyrocketed. Glad he got it together.

  4. Forest should be relegated simply for having Football Index as a previous sponsor. I mean, it was obvious that crap was a scam even before it got exposed a such.

  5. It was Labour who deregulated gambling I think? Another disaster authored by Tony Blair.

    Who are the main victims of gambling? Not high profile sportsman or the rich but the vast majority of victims are working class and or benefits claimants.

    Gambling is a stupid thing to do if you are not capable of limiting yourself to an occasional flutter, problem is many don’t find out they don’t have a limit until it’s too late.

    In the modern world gambling is considered a sport and prostitutes are sex workers.

    The rebuilding of Babylon on a massive scale.

    • Gambling is human nature, but you should only be allowed to bet on who will win and by how many points, in what round for boxing, etc. Letting people bet on every inch and corner and even red cards is pathetic. A guy playing for a low league team in Scotland along with his mates recently got sentenced for match-fixing when the player deliberately got himself sent off near the end of game to win over 3 grand each. This kind of stuff goes on all the time now. It’s really bad in America.

      Yeah, FIFA need to step in with the gambling degeneracy that football promotes. But “kick racism out of football” is the agenda, they won’t speak out about how gambling addition ruins families.

      Reminds me of the scene on Bad Lieutenant with Harry Keitel betting $250,000 on Daryl Strawberry to win the baseball game after his massive losses and he loses his shit…

      (2 minutes)
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir8Y4iFrWk8

    • The gambling firms are definitely the worst of the two evils
      You win regularly or (beat SP) they will restrict you to peanuts for stakes. In other words they don’t want you, it’s not worth the effort

      There is betfair exchange but they have premium charges if you become successful ( paddy power owns a 51%share or 49@ I forget)
      So the revolution that was The exchanges is nothing near what it was originally, but still doable
      This only applies to punters that are long term winners
      If you are not one of those , they ((the bookies) will accommodate your every desire for your mug money
      The amount of shit markets they can make up in one single event is mind boggling.

      As for there virtual shit on display every 5 seconds in the shops is irresponsible beyond belief.

      They seem to be feeling the pinch after the lockdowns but time will tell

      • I have an addictive personality, but somehow I managed to avoid gambling. I came close around 2009 for a few months, but luckily I have a low tolerance for boredom and there’s a very boring side to gambling, so I just maintained my other addictions and avoid being one of those guys who lose the plot with their bank cards and laptop.

    • I remember when Blair and his Labour Party were caught out with the Ecclestone million quid bribe. His response ” Trust me, I am honest sort of a bloke, we didn’t change the legislation because of the donation”

      That turned out well didn’t it?

  6. Coca Cola being the official sponsor of FIFA for decades is a disgrace. Why isn’t it Adidas or Nike? Not that they are paragons of virtue as corporations, but at least are sports-minded entities. Coca Cola is just sugary diarrhea and the cans end up in the ocean.

  7. The BBC are making a drama series about Jimmy Savile with Steve Coogan playing the nation’s favourite deviant.

    Some would say that’s a gamble, I say how fucking dare they!

    They know more about Savile than the rest of us eh?

    Despicable cunts!

    • Oh fucking hell, I thought you were joking. But no, it’s underway…

      https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/steve-coogan-jimmy-savile-bbc-b1927225.html

      Fucking hell. Coogan is just the pits. I loved Alan Partridge, but Coogan has lost his mind in the past few years. To make drama out of Jimmy Savile is impossible. There’s no way of bringing pathos to the victims when the main character is jumping about in a pink shellsuit, gold chains and a massive cigar then traumatizing a child in a hospital. Fucking hell, this needs to be stopped. I don’t pay 159 notes per year for insanity like this. This needs to be emergency cunted.

      • The BBC are total hypocrites where Sir Jim’ll is concerned. They won’t show any Top Of The Pops episodes featuring Savile, claiming they don’t want to traumatise his victims (a bit fucking late for that anyway). When, in truth, the BBC are only covering themselves.

        As I said, they will ban any footage of Savile, yet they will broadcast a sensationalist t ‘drama’ about the dirty old peroxide kiddiefiddling necro cunt. The post-2012 Beeb like to make out Savile never existed. Then they say they’re making a ‘drama’ about him?! Hypocritical cunts.

        And trust that insufferable luvvie bellend Coogan to be involved in such shite. What a cunt he really is.

  8. Are people really influenced by the name of a company on a football shirt ?…I enjoy a bet but I’m unlikely to change betting firm just because some footballer has the name of an alternative company on his kit…nor am I likely to suddenly decide to from Mike Ashley’s exciting range of leisure-wear on the strength of him renaming St.James Park to Sports Direct Arena.
    I’d imagine that anything associated with Premier League football would be anathema to anyone of taste…and as for the type who wear football shirts and buy overpriced merchandise…well,fuck them.

    • Footballers pop up sodding everywhere now..I picked up a free paper from a supermarket today to do the competitions, and there was an article about St Rashford and that Tom Kerridge bloke, who resembles a shaved Honey Monster, saving the nations kiddies from starvation by sharing the recipe for that great delicacy, Eggy Bread. Christ on a crutch.

  9. Manchester City are fucking laughable.

    The cunts wear rainbow armbands, and Pep Fraudiola yacks on about LGBT rights. Yet the whole set up is owned by a Gulf State dictatorship that imprisons and persecutes gays. 🤣

    The woke all new City also referred to United as ‘Munichs’ in their official match programme. So, they are bigger cunts than ever. The Gorton Globetrotters…. Hypocriitical cunts and pure comedy.😒

    • The team is worth $1.2 billion on paper, but they can’t work as a team. You only get about $22 million for winning the Champions League, anyway, so why spend the military budget of Ireland to win a tin cup. Football is a simple game, it’s fun, it brings people together. But it’s danger of jumping the shark this decade and turning people off in droves, just like what happened with going to church to feel the power of God. I could see African and Islamic countries dominating football in twenty years time.

  10. Can’t really agree with this nom. Seeking to stop advertising is just another form of cancelling. We cannot, and should not use the weakest members of society as the yardstick for everyone. Betting can be a curse but I do not accept that it is any cause/excuse for hitting women. The lowlifes who hit women are just scum looking for an excuse for their loathsome behaviour. Similarly with alcohol. Many of us will have been pissed, but not have hit women (including from drinking Steller). You might as well say having a tattoo or wearing a string vest means you will hit women.

    On the upside, The Gunners won but, paradoxically, some fans/cunts will beat their womenfolk even though they won!

    • Should have put inverted commas around the word ‘their’ above, obvs!

    • Evening Twenty

      I seen the result.

      Tottenham Hotspur are a fucking sorry disgrace.
      After repeatedly qualifying for the so called Champions League on a (relatively) shoestring budget thanks to Mauricio Pochettino’s management, they had a genuine chance to really push on and establish themselves.
      They didn’t.
      Now they’re back where they were.
      Bang fucking average and in relation to the nomination – a decent long shot bet for relegation.
      Who gives a fuck how nice your stadium is when the team is wank.

  11. Wankers like Winstone and that irritating, wonky eyed, knees up muvver braaahn tosser Redknapp senior should be ashamed of themselves. Extolling the virtues of betting to an audience that includes kids shouldn’t be allowed, regardless of their argument that they can’t gamble until they’re over 18. It’s now an unregulated shit show aimed at swelling the treasury’s coffers.

  13. Black lives matter – the lives of gamblers and alcoholics not so much! We’ll ignore the fact that barely a life is lost in the UK due to the police (let alone black lives), meanwhile thousands die from alcohol and countless lives are ruined due to gambling and these cunts don’t have a word to say. Fuck off, virtue signaling pricks, none of them have the balls to stand up against the money men.

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