Media Discussion - 2023/24

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feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
Some rage porn for raggies and dippers in the Daily Mail about City not wearing the Emirates Fa cup logo on the sleeve of the shirt this weekend. Comments section is hilarious.
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I guess City are running out of room on the shirts to keep add all the cups we won last year
 
PPT said:
Not sure it works like that. City are only retailers of the product. The manufacturer (Asahi) who are the suppliers have infringed the trade mark. The consequential liability lies with them I would think.
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But Asahi wouldn't be manufacturing our training tops.
 
Phil1 said:
She’s a keeper that one. SuperDry is wank.
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Her thoughts exactly.

I’ve only got one Superdry item of clothing, a hoodie, which a previous girlfriend bought me, which I never wear.

Their clobber is actually along the lines of a lot of stuff I wear outside work, but it’s always looked a bit busy, and it’s fucking everywhere.

And she is a keeper, most definitely.
 
jaiguruKun said:
www.theguardian.com

Who killed Sancho’s United career? The club? Ten Hag? Or maybe just football | Barney Ronay

Most sporting failures have a pattern but, as the winger nears a loan return to Borussia Dortmund, this feels like a fault in the way things should work
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

Normally I enjoy Ronay's work but this one left me very confused. Maybe that's the point?
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Super-intellectual sports journalist can't put his finger on why Sancho didn't work at United? Really? He could have looked at the careers of almost everyone else in that club if he wanted to identify a common denominator. I am guessing he didn't want to look too closely.
 
PPT said:
Not sure it works like that. City are only retailers of the product. The manufacturer (Asahi) who are the suppliers have infringed the trade mark. The consequential liability lies with them I would think.
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I‘m not sure that Asahi have actually infringed the copyright so it maybe that Superdry have jumped the gun with this pathetic action. It’s effectively asking us to destroy our training kit. You can only assume some rabid Dipper or Rag in the boardroom at Superdry has instigated this nonsense. If Superdry really were concerned you would think they would take action against the millions of cans on shelves in the high street rather than a few bits of training kit.
 
Centurions said:
Neither would City, do you expect Puma or whoever to be sued?
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I don't know. I was just suggesting why it was Man City rather than anyone else involved being targeted.

A few people have suggested it's simply bad journalism, and that it's not City involved in the case at all. It may well be incorrect, but from the news, as far as I can see, it is City that are being asked to stop using the tops, rather than Asahi being asked to stop manufacturing the beer.

If City are telling Puma to put a logo on a shirt, then who is legally responsible? Potentially Puma, but from any dealings I've had with trademarks, it could well be City that are first in line.
 
halfcenturyup said:
Super-intellectual sports journalist can't put his finger on why Sancho didn't work at United? Really? He could have looked at the careers of almost everyone else in that club if he wanted to identify a common denominator. I am guessing he didn't want to look too closely.
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I assume you mean super intellectual relative to other sports journalists?

There are a number of reasons, but the principal one is that sport is won and lost in the head, as much as anywhere.

He didn’t have the desire, application or resolve to make the most of himself. Doubtless mental health played a part, but that doesn’t alter the reasons behind his inability to make anything resembling the most of his talent.

Also, as you have said he was in the wrong place. United are a fucking joke.

For his sake, I hope he comes to appreciate that going back isn’t always a mistake, and he finds being in the spotlight a bit less makes him less unhappy.
 
nmc said:
I‘m not sure that Asahi have actually infringed the copyright so it maybe that Superdry have jumped the gun with this pathetic action. It’s effectively asking us to destroy our training kit. You can only assume some rabid Dipper or Rag in the boardroom at Superdry has instigated this nonsense. If Superdry really were concerned you would think they would take action against the millions of cans on shelves in the high street rather than a few bits of training kit.
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Super Dry probably don't have a trademark for drinks. They do have a trademark for clothes with the words Super Dry written on them, hence why they would target the training kit, and not the drink.
 
You would think Asahi if they wanted to could turn round and tell SuperDry (a company from Cheltenham - who have used Japanese branding as their USP and founded in 2003 - despite having no links to Japan) to stop using SuperDry as they are infringing Asahi’s Super Dry brand that has been in existence since 1987 on a Japanese company that has been in existence since the late 1800’s.

I mean if anyone has copied someone…
 
SuperDry are cheeky cunts. Hope it costs them a fortune, a frivolous court case that will only benefit those arguing the case.
 
You would think if they thought people were getting mistaken between the two it would be to their benefit, they are getting some free advertising on the world's number 1 football teams shirts, something that would cost them millions.

Other than that it seems a very silly venture, nobody is that stupid to think the tops are designed or made by SupersDry, hopefully, this will cost them a lot of money and another company goes on the do not buy anything off list.
 
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