Tuesday, January 6, 2009

O too much....

Tonbridge blog couldn't help but notice and be slightly pissed off by all the sponsorship around at the Six Nations rugby on Saturday. Our TV screens were awash with Brains Bitter, Guinness Stout, Murray, O2, Royal Bank of Scotland and that's just for starters. Both Ireland and England might as well have been called O2 Team 1 and O2 Team 2; you'd have thought that they would at least have had different mobile phone networks pitched up against each other. Then there's the tournament sponsors, the kit sponsors Nike and Caterbury amongst others, the gum scield sponsors, isotonic drinks suppliers (what was wrong with a segment of orange? Jaffa orange of course!), even the blumin refs have sponsors, Fly Emmirates, presumeably because everyone who watches rugby can afford a tax free shoping trip to Dubai. Surely Specsavers opticians would be more appropriate for the refs and officials anyway! Did I miss any, Oh yes they'll be hundreds more smaller sponsors, advertisers and hangers on. Our own team, the Tonbridge Juddians is no better, they have DC Scoffolding, Larkins Brewery, Atemis, The Alishan Restaurant (rugger buggers like their curry!) Warners Solicitors (they also get divorced and move house alot) to name just a few of their "partners" What next Mr. Books bookshop supplying all their reading requirements (Oh I already do!) We turn on our TV sets and what do we get, Esther Ranson trying to be serious flogging us accident insurance, Carole Voderman lining her pockets with tacky loans ads, Peugeot bringing us the drama on ITV, Bailey's bringing us Sex in The City, Powergen and EDF are apparently responsible for bringing us the weather (more fool them) The bleedin' roundabouts in Tonbridge will soon have sponsors, if the council gets its way, and I'm not joking. I'm sure all this raises some much needed cash for all concerned, but really, come on now hasn't it all gone O2 far....
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