I have just realised that Blackpool's kit sponsor is non other than Wonga, the money loaning outfit. It seems funny really (well actually not very for the poor sods who are tempted in) that with all the money flying about in the Premiership recently, and with Charlie Adam's five to ten million pound on off transfer talk, that a club would want to advertise a company who no doubt provide misery to many people who are desperately in need of a few quid. For the five hundred grand, or whatever Wonga paid Blackpool to have their logo splashed all over the team shirts, they will most probably be getting ten fold back by charging an extortionate interest on loans that quite clearly can't and won't be paid back in the allotted time.
There is no real reason for this rant, I just don't like the fact that a player can be playing for a Premiership team, and earning thirty or forty grand a week, whilst endorsing a company who are very obviously preying on the financially vulnerable. Rant over.
In other news, I had a close shave with axe today, I cannot believe the ineligibility issue, and I am in desperate need of something wet to drink.
Over and out.
CH
1 comment:
I quite agree with you!
Anyone with principles would have not even entertained the idea of choosing such a sponsor....but principles seem to go out of the window when money is involved, eh?!
On and I bet those players just love prancing around the pitch with 'WONGA' on their shirts. (Of course.. it could be worse ! ;-)
Apparently, the word "Wonga" is derived from the Romany word "wanger" , meaning "coal".
"Coal" was also used as a slang term for money in the 18th & 19th centuries.
You learn something new every day!! ;-)
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