yep, unfortunately it is. coming soon to a football game near you ... player gets ready to take a free kick, turns to a closeup camera to say "This shot on goal is brought to you by ...."
I don't think it will ever get that bad...but... It's when a player scores and points to the advertisement on his sleeve rather than the crest on his chest...that will do it for me...
players get a yellow card for taking off their shirts while celebrating a goal (it's happened to Bobby a few times). ever wonder why? players come off the pitch at HT or the end with shirt off, no prob at all. it's regarded as "unsportsmanlike behaviour" but that is total BS as far as I'm concerned. I've never seen any rationale for it, so imo it's because the shirt-front advertisers are losing out on their top photo/video advertising opportunity. nothing else makes sense.
Nah, that's a little over the top. The precious advertising is seen everywhere at all times and the celebrating player is surrounded by shirted players who are showing off those precious advertising dollars. I don't agree with the rule but the rationale was that this would prevent players from showing political messages on their undershirt.
nope, that doesn't make sense -- if a player had a message under the shirt, then fine him. that takes care of that problem. there's only one rational explanation for it, advertiser pressure.
the stupidity of the "yellow card for no-shirt goal shirt celebrations" was hilited yesterday with CR7's sending off. ridiculous.
While I agree with your general point, any rule that sees the Ladyboy red-carded and then banned for five games can't be all bad. Same here. I bought one for my son - it looks magnificent.