Hey! None Of That!
An amateur cricket team in England has had to buy new jerseys and refund a sponsors money after the local league objected to the sponsor and threatened to take away every point the team scored. Why? Because the would be sponsor was a chain of adult shops selling pornographic videos and sex toys - quite legally - all across Northwest England and Wales. The league had originally approved the sponsorship, but withdrew permission when their governing body objected.
Southport Trinity Cricket Club, in Lancashire, north-west England, had already produced shirts for its players displaying the logo of Nice'n'Naughty - a chain of adult shops selling pornographic videos and sex toys - in time for the start of their season this Saturday.
However, the amateur team was forced to ditch the shirts and refund Nice'n'Naughty's sponsorship money after being threatened with expulsion from the Liverpool and District Competition of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Premier League.
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The company's website boasts: "We are the UK's leading chain of licensed sex shops and offer an extensive range of hardcore VHS/DVD, magazines, fetish wear, PVC clothing, rubber clothing, leather clothing, boots, shoes, wigs, breast forms, bondage equipment, lingerie, hosiery, sex toys and novelties."
Hey, they should have been able to work some of that gear into the game. That would make it more interesting, wouldn't it?
Weird Stuff | Gaius Wednesday, 12 April , 2006
By Tom, Wednesday, 12 April , 2006 @ 5:46 pm
Look at it this way - at least they didn’t put the Mohammed cartoons on the jerseys. Otherwise, they might have had a little more to worry about!
By Gauis Arbo, Wednesday, 12 April , 2006 @ 8:36 pm
THAT would have been interesting, wouldn’t it?