The most recent stunt pulled by the new Vancouver Whitecaps regime/babysitting service has been to pull Swangard concourse table privledges away from the World Football Pages (http://www3.telus.net/worldfootballpages/). The WFP is our only truly local footie rag here in British Columbia, and it's the only paper that regularly gives publicity to the Whitecaps, VMSL, and other local amateur footie. New Whitecaps Director of "Marketing" (read "head of silly half-time stunts") Rick Ramsbottom decided to inform the WFP that their free concourse access has been cut off, and that they must now pay a rental fee in order to have a table inside Swangard Stadium. What a bloody joke! WFP is one of the best sources of free advertising the Whitecaps get, and yet naive Ramsbottom has the audacity to try and make a extra couple of bucks from trying to milk the WFP. The brains behind the WFP, Chris, has sunk a personal fortune into the WFP ship, and as such, I feel that we owe this bloke something. We all whinge and whine how we wish footie could be better here in North America, and here's a bloke who's actually going something concrete to further the cause, donating a great of both his time and money. As such, I think that the least we could do is rally behind him regarding this issue of getting a free table in the Swangard concourse, regardless of whether we agree with what's written inside the WFP. So, here's how you can help: 1.) email the Whitecaps (even if you live outside of British Columbia, which is the case for 99.5% of you on here) Director of Sales and Marketing, Rick Ramsbottom - rramsbottom@whitecapssoccer.com Director of Soccer Operations, Bob Lenarduzzi - blenarduzzi@prowavesoccer.com President, Greg Kerfoot - gkerfoot@whitecapssoccer.com 2.) pass this message onto other footie supporters Cheers.
I can't believe that the Whitecaps management would shoot themselves in the foot by doing this. The WFP gives a lot of free press to the Whitecaps.