New Rule: T-shirts for teams who have just won a cuo final must be banned.
This hideously tacky, commercial American custom has become more and more common in Britain in recent years. The most recent example was at Wembley yesterday after Luton Town won the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final. You can see the offending t-shirts on display here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2009/04/hats_off_to_luton_after_wemble.html#071427
Three things really bother me about this.
The first is the fact that a team wears their shirt for the whole campaign, and then has to cover that shirt when the campaign reaches its climax.
The second is the utter pointlessness of it. "Are those guys spraying champagne everywhere in front of the 'WINNERS' banner the winners or runners up? Geez, this was so much easier when they gave t-shirts out."
Finally, the commercialism is sickening. It's not enough for Johnstone's Paint that their logo is on the trophy, on the straps of the medals, on banners all around the stadium and that the competition is officially called the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final. No, they need total logo saturation. Hence the idiot t-shirts.
New Rule: Stop playing music when the home team scores a goal.
I have a bitter experience of this. During the 2003/04 season I worked at Norwich City's home ground, Carrow Road. That year the Canaries won the league, scoring many goals in the process. I don't know the name of the tune that was played every time they scored a goal, but needles to say it drove me mad.
Trying to manufacture atmosphere and excitement in this way is irritating and pathetic. If you need crap music to generate some noise - rather than relying on the fact that a goal has just been scored - then perhaps you should get some new fans.
1 comments:
Tbf if there's anything that needs to be eliminated in football it is indeed that idiot music that plays after a goal. What ever happened to pure atmosphere that our parents generation revelled in ? Other things I'd eliminate from cup finals is that enormous stage they bring onto the pitch and those idiot "small bits of paper" fireworks they fire all over the place. It's fine for game shows or for the Olympics but it just ain't football.
And another thing ! Stadia should not be allowed to be named after a sponsor - "The Walkers Bowl" is probably the most ridiculous of them all but the Emirates stadium, the Reebok stadium and and the JJB stadium are also wayne. I'd also like to draw your attention to the fact that York City's Bootham Crescent is now known as the KitKat crescent. Ridiculous.
The new rule has my vote
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