[Football] Unfortunate sponsorship at Southend

[The Clamp]

Not a great joke, I’ll give you that. But really, getting offended?

 

[Gwylan]

It's just amazing that no one from the club picked up on this

Maybe the club pitched it to them deliberately. If it had been a Jones, the local butcher, no-one would have mentioned it. But now it's gone viral - as someone said earlier, fabulous publicity for the company.

 

[cjd]

This has gone viral because people are amused about a connection between a football ground and a couple who raped, sadistically abused and then murdered their own teenage daughter....as well as a minimum of 11 others.


Sorry...I just don't understand that humour.

 

[The Clamp]

This has gone viral because people are amused about a connection between a football ground and a couple who raped, sadistically abused and then murdered their own teenage daughter....as well as a minimum of 11 others.


Sorry...I just don't understand that humour.

Rightly or wrongly, it’s the British sense of humour. Gallows humour, if you will.

People laugh at Jimmy Savile, Hitler, the Yorkshire Ripper.

Never chuckled at Viz? Harold & Fred; They make people dead.
Never laughed at Dad’s Army?
No?

Nobody condones their acts. Nobody would copy their acts. But it’s the British way, it helps people deal with the horror of it all.

Fair enough you don’t find it funny, but you don’t understand it? Come off it.

 

[Brian Fantana]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-62405123

U-turn incoming.

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

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[The Clamp]

I recall being on a bus tour of Belfast. He told us how the ice hockey team was originally called the Belfast Bombers. Nobody has clocked the name until it was too late. True story. It got a laugh.
I have family that died in Belfast in the troubles. I spent summers there during the 80’s. But I still found it amusing.

It’s the British way.

 

[Gwylan]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-62405123

U-turn incoming.

I still think it could have been deliberate. Get initial publicity for the name and then more for the change. If I were PR guy for G&R, I'd be laughing at the brand recognition this has brought.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Bet they will try and bury this pretty quickly

 

[Brok]

Not a great joke, I’ll give you that. But really, getting offended?

Correct, the 'joke' was crap.

 

[The Clamp]

Correct, the 'joke' was crap.

Oh well. I’m sorry you’re so easily offended.

 

[RandyWanger]

Why not call it the Gilbert & Rose Stand

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-62405123

‘Southend United reconsiders name of stand featuring 'Rose West'’

You would have thought Southend of all clubs would be up for a Gavin and Stacey style joke.

 

[Brok]

Oh well. I’m sorry you’re so easily offended.

I think that most things you can joke about, other things are a bit tasteless.

 

[Motogull]

No publicity is bad publicity - G&W probably know this

Not on this occasion. Even I think it is over the line.

The Gilbert & Rose Stand as already stated would be fine.

Its a good job it was Southend rather than Swindon, a Bristol club or Gloucester.

 

[The Clamp]

I think that most things you can joke about, other things are a bit tasteless.

It being tasteless is the humour.

Not your thing. Fair play.

 

[clapham_gull]

This has gone viral because people are amused about a connection between a football ground and a couple who raped, sadistically abused and then murdered their own teenage daughter....as well as a minimum of 11 others.

Sorry...I just don't understand that humour.

It is a very British style of humour though. Jimmy Savile, Michael Jackson, Princess Diana etc.. Whether you find it funny or not is obviously personal taste.

 

[Brok]

It being tasteless is the humour.

Not your thing. Fair play.

OK. let's leave it there then....

 

[Giraffe]

I still think it could have been deliberate. Get initial publicity for the name and then more for the change. If I were PR guy for G&R, I'd be laughing at the brand recognition this has brought.

Absolutely this. There is no chance they didn’t realise the issue. Absolutely done for maximum publicity.