The Anonymous Widower

The Americanisation of the FA Cup

I hope the idiot, who thought it would be a good idea to ask Budweiser to sponsor the FA Cup, has done the right thing and gone to repent for the rest of his life in a monastery in Nepal or on Mount Assos.

The FA Cup is a British institution and although, it has been sponsored for some time now, all of the sponsors, hsve either been British or come from countries, where football is the national game.

Budweiser is an American company and luckily I’ve never ever sampled any of its products.  In fact as a coeliac, I can’t unless I want to be ill.

Just imagine what would happen if British Airways say, wanted to sponsor a major sporting event in the United States.

Yet again, the FA has shown that the fans don’t count.

One of the outcomes of this deal or perhaps the fact that the television rights have gone to ITV and ESPN, was that the BBC weren’t able to broadcast a radio commentary of the game this afternoon.

November 13, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | Sport | BBC, Beer, Football, ITV, Radio, Television, United States