lost in london
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As far as I am aware, none our our stands are named. Hopefully one day sooner rather than later the west stand will be named the Tony Bloom Stand, but how about handing over naming rights to one of the stands to a charity?
It wouldn't have to be on a permanent basis, a season or half season, and in amongst the adverts for betting websites in chinese that scroll around the pitch, an occasional advert for the relevant charity could be shown on the pitchside boards, perhaps a charity's logo could be shown on any printed tickets, a named board could be put on the top of the stand etc.
AITC would be the obvious first choice, but using our global exposure to promote a local (or national) charity selected by supporters seems like a relatively easy way to give something back. We've necessarily sold out by getting the revenue from the betting websites and fast food companies, this seems to me to be a neat chance to try and claw something back, hopefully without tripping over the presumably dozens of commercial agreements in place with EPL / FIFA or whoever it is that calls the shots.
It wouldn't have to be on a permanent basis, a season or half season, and in amongst the adverts for betting websites in chinese that scroll around the pitch, an occasional advert for the relevant charity could be shown on the pitchside boards, perhaps a charity's logo could be shown on any printed tickets, a named board could be put on the top of the stand etc.
AITC would be the obvious first choice, but using our global exposure to promote a local (or national) charity selected by supporters seems like a relatively easy way to give something back. We've necessarily sold out by getting the revenue from the betting websites and fast food companies, this seems to me to be a neat chance to try and claw something back, hopefully without tripping over the presumably dozens of commercial agreements in place with EPL / FIFA or whoever it is that calls the shots.