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Do you think Featherstone Rovers sold out to the gods of potential PR when they renamed their stadium to Chris Moyles Stadium?
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It's not a bad thing to name a stadium or stand after a player or manager who has done great things for a club, but after sponsors/ companies etc is a really sad turn of events in my opinion.

I think you are wrong on this one...no one cares about the name, but the impact on income (and thus buying world class players) is huge and allows us (the billies) to see the world's best play...otherwise do away with all 'ads'and sponsorship in sport etc. A very retro approach. Sport is 'professional' now DG and has to be viable rather than living in a romantic dream of better times. Stadiums (grounds) were rubbish in the the 80's: death traps, food minefields, unsafe, toilet starved, ugly- but oh we 'loved' the atmosphere.

Any true Leicester City fan will know that Walkers are a huge local employer in the region. Walkers was a local family firm that made it big. Walkers has always been loyal to the city, even loyally using Gary Lineker in marketing, who is a local Leicester boy, who in turn is a financial supporter of LCFC. The old stadium was called Filbert Street. As a fan of LCFC myself, I don't know of anyone who prefers to call it "Filbert Way". Walkers Stadium is said with pride!

Brit Oval? I thought it was either a patriotic gesture or some connection with pop music. Thanks for putting me right. I suppose the fact that I now know that Brit Insurance exists must make the sponsorship a success???

Reading's ground is known as the "Mad Stad" or the "Mad House" to locals, something that probably didn't cross John "Please give me knighthood, pleeeease" Madejksi when he thought it up.

Also, following up Jag's post, Madejski is immensely popular in the town, and naming the stadium after himself was more-or-less agreed at the time. After all, when he bought the club they were getting gates of 3,000 and going nowhere.

isn't JJB the company that owner Dave Whelan made his millions with, so enabling him to take Wigan to heights previously only dreamed of. Seems to me like a way for the owner to give the club even more money, perhaps with a built in tax break, who knows?

My one-man campaign a couple of years ago to have Southampton's new stadium called The New Delhi was sadly unsuccessful.

Strum Gratz play in "The Arnold Schwartzenegger Stadium".

Colwyn Bay has "The Triact Building Terrace", the "findthetrade.co.uk end", and the "DJ Construction Family Suite"

We don't sell out, honest!

German lower league outfit Fuerth pioneered things over there with their "Playmobil-Stadion".

Sponsorship eventually turns everything into shite.

Ah - Leicester City, you say?

Well in that case, maybe I should offer my blog's name up for sale to the highest bidder. As you say, it's only right and proper.

All the added sponsorship money would just go to upgrade facilities and provide some well-deserved recompense for the chairman. This would still be the same blog, just with a heavily sponsored title.

I was thinking maybe...
Dairylea geezer or
Dettol geezer or
Duracell geezer or
Diamond White geezer or
diamond Goodyear

I'm sure nobody would mind, much.

Diamond White geezer wouldn't be too much of a hardship, would it?

(more than you can possibly imagine, Lionel)

How about:

DeBeers Geezer

or the (much) lower rent

Diamonique Geezer

I seem to recall Graz remaning thier stadium after Arnuld supported the war in Iraq or something

http://www.washtimes.com/world/2...24953-
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Oh come on, you Brits are real pikers when it comes to re-naming your sports venues with dumb sounding sponsorship names. In the US we have these abominations:

PETCO Park in San Diego
http://www.worldstadiums.com/
sta...ego\\_petco.shtml


The STAPLES Center in Los Angeles
http://www.worldstadiums.com/
sta...s\\_staples.shtml


AMWAY Arena In Orlando
http://www.worldstadiums.com/
sta...aterhouse.shtml


Those jerseys that Arsenal wear crack me up. They make the team look like the national team of some country called The Emirates.

There is "some country called The Emirates".
(UAE rank 71st in the world at the moment)

I am going for

'The Mothercare Diamond Geezer Blog site'

as the most appropriate.

Sorry- that was silly

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The Ricoh Arena was originally going to be named after Jaguar, until the car plant sacked loads of people in Coventry.

Scarborough's ground is called the McCain's Stadium, and is sometimes called the Bowl of Chips.

Oh, and Sir John Madjeski also has a gallery at the Royal Academy named after him. He's also busy attaching himself to another ancient national monument, Cilla Black.

i don't see any wrong in naming a stadium using a coach name.But the Emirates stadium is a boon for arsenal.

It came at the right time for thme.they were the runners up last season in the champions league and they invested the money in their new stadium

Members of the New Zealand National Rugby League team have "Malaysian” emblazoned across their back.
The famous (in rugby or cricket circles) Lancaster Park “sold out” to a software company and became Jade Stadium. The slow start this season for the local Super 14 team suggests they are, indeed, jaded.
A new (in 1999) stadium erected in Wellington, NZ, was named “WestpacTrust” stadium. Thankfully, the sponsor bank completed its takeover of, sorry, merger with, Trust Bank and the stadium became Westpac Stadium. It is, however, affectionately known by locals as “the cake tin”, because it looks like a cake tin. It is known, derisibly, around the rest of the country as “the cake tin”, because this is thought to be offensive to the locals.
(In writing this, spell checker did not like “derisibly”, nor did dictionery.com. Google suggested I meant “derisible”, but 24 hits suggests that folk other than me think that this word should be usified and utilitised as an adjective.)
But I’m with Strandman. The sponsorship has a purpose (the end justifies the means?): more money for the team.

The foxes'll be back Onionbag

From someone who grew up a mere spitting distance from the Bulls home, or should I say Bradford Northern (they're very much English name before some fool decided to Americanise it all,) the stadium will always be called Odsal, named after the roundabout is sits next to.

Same goes for Bradford City too, it will always be Valley Parade











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