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New Shirt Sponsor - Possibly Making An Appearance Tonight

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  1. Shola's Best Hat

    Shola's Best Hat Member

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    Saucy:

    http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/nort...ave-new-shirt-sponsor-tonight-72703-30059056/

    NEWCASTLE United could face Manchester United tonight with a new sponsor emblazoned across their shirts, it is understood.

    The club’s kit sponsor Northern Rock may be replaced with the Virgin Money logo after a late deal was brokered between the team and the company.

    If that happens it will mark the end of Northern Rock's eight-year relationship with the St James’ Park outfit.

    A statement is expected to be released later this afternoon confirming a sponsorship deal between NUFC and Virgin Money.

    It comes after Gosforth-based Northern Rock was sold to Richard Branson’s Virgin empire in a £747m deal in November – which included 75 branches and 2,100 staff, one million customers, a £14bn mortgage book and retail deposits worth £16bn

    The buy-out secured jobs in the region after it was revealed they were protected from compulsory redundancies for the next three years.

    Newcastle United’s latest sponsorship deal is believed to have been secured after Virgin Money’s chief executive visited the region yesterday.

    Jayne-Anne Gadhia said the name would not be changing on Newcastle United’s shirts for tonight’s game against Manchester United, but that position appears to have changed following 11th-hour talks.

    The Rock secured a £10m deal in January last year to sponsor Newcastle United for four years, but the firm enacted a break clause in November to cancel that deal at the end of the current season.

    It is not currently known how long the new deal is for, and more information is expected this afternoon.
     
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    My guess.
     
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  3. goldie

    goldie Well-Known Member

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    Virgin logo is red so no doubt we'll be wearing red and blue before long (sports direct colours)

    FFS
     
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  4. biggeordiedave

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    That was quick.
     
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  5. skalpel

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    What can I say? I'm handy with the clone stamp tool.
     
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  6. biggeordiedave

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    You are a miserable ****er aren't you? What's next Sports Direct FC? Removing Shearers and the Club Shop to make a huge Sports Direct store?
     
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    Doesn't look too bad actually.

    It would be better if they got rid of the red and maybe made more of a black/white contrast.
     
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  8. Shola's Best Hat

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    Any chance they might ditch the red background and enlarge the plain "Virgin" text you reckon? Red looks awful against a white and black background.

    Edit: Mr DavideDuck has just pointed this out
     
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    Well I'd like to see what it'd look like if we were sponsored by Richard Griffiths <laugh>.
     
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    <laugh>!! If I could be arsed to do one again, this would be the one I'd do.
     
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    Exactly my fear.
     
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  12. skalpel

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    Agreed, but they probably won't do that will they? Wouldn't be noticable enough; they won't give the tiniest shred of **** about how the shirt looks.
     
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    OI! Shhhh!!!! What if MA read that?

    <cheers>
     
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    Wonder if they are buying the stadium naming rights aswell, I hope they are.
     
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    Don't give MA ideas.
     
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    queue the 'trophy virgin' insults...
     
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    What a shame we can't take a photo of Tash in one. So many jokes, so little time.
     
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    Stand by for all the virgin gags.
     
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  19. Shola's Best Hat

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    Hopefully this'll mean a bargain basement current shirt for those of us who've been too tight to buy one yet.
     
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  20. I Bleed Black & White

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    It'd be full of confused peado's who bought tickets for "The Virgin Arena".
     
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