Stadium Naming Rights / Press Conference [Merged]

[bobmcfc]

Can we ban Holtie ?

 

[Bellamy's Caddy]

The City of Manchester Stadium is a mouthful. No-one calls it 'SPORTCity' much either if at all. Some people use the press term Eastlands (i personally don't) and the stadium itself has been home to City for around 8 years, this deal means it'll be called the Etihad Stadium for 10 years, maybe longer if they renegotiate.

I have no problem with it finally having a certified, agreed upon, name like the Etihad, or 'Union' Stadium.

It's short, sweet and simple. CoMS was sort of catchy, and it was nice to have it known as the City of Manchester Stadium, but it's too much of a mouthful in conversation.

I agree mate, it was a long winded name and I not heard many City fans refer to it like that, most I know called it Eastlands and some COMS. Holt's argument is made redundant by the fact that our stadium was more commonly referred to by nicknames rather than its official title, so it can actually be claimed that this deal, regardless of its financial implications, gives a clear identity to the Stadium.

The ''selling our soul'' argument might have been applicable if we had renamed Maine Road, but to rename a stadium that is less than 10 years old doesn't have anywhere near the same implications, especially as the City of Manchester Stadium rarely got a namecheck anyway. If SSN for example have a reporter outside our stadium they have previously said ''And we go to join Frazer Daynton at Eastlands'' not the City of Manchester Stadium.

The fact that Oliver Holt is resorting to the old ''etihad means united'' jibe shows how his judgement is clouded on this matter and the comment likening the renaming of a generic stadium to us changing our team name is just making him look foolish.

For some Etihad means Unity, but he Airline themselves state Etihad means 'Union' so i'll go with what our sponsors say.

"What time do City kick off at the 'Union' tonight?" That'll be great to say on Champions League nights!

Haha, yeah. To be honest I'll still call it Eastlands anyway, not out of spite, its just what its always been known as to me and the people I go to games with, creatures of habit and all that.

 

[Uwe Already]

I just found a fun anagram of our for a possible stadium name:

ETIHAD STADIUM

AMID HATE IS UTD!

......its been a slow day at work.

Ha! "Utd A Media Shit" made me smile from http://wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html

 

[Ovo]

Whoever tweeted ollie holt "your name translated into Arabic is ****. Did you know that?"
Is a legend

Hahahaha

 

[molineuxblue]

Can't see any mention here of Tariq Panja's tweet that the naming deal is worth "more than £300m".

 

[blinkblue]

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-08/manchester-city-said-to-earn-300-million-pounds-in-10-year-etihad-pact.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-0 ... -pact.html</a>?

I like the sound of that one!

 

[bluefandk]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-08/manchester-city-said-to-earn-300-million-pounds-in-10-year-etihad-pact.html?

I like the sound of that one!

Holy smokes!

If thats accurate then thats 30 mill a year!

Put that in yer pipe and smoke it twatini!

 

[bluevengence]

Can we ban Holtie ?

I bet the two faced cnut dos`nt turn down the free
grub and booze from our sponsors ETIHAD when he
slithers up for a game this season

 

[Bluemoon115]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-08/manchester-city-said-to-earn-300-million-pounds-in-10-year-etihad-pact.html?

I like the sound of that one!

Holy smokes!

If thats accurate then thats 30 mill a year!

Put that in yer pipe and smoke it twatini!

And because it's for the entire SportCity, there is no precedent, therefore it is exactly market value.

 

[bluefandk]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-08/manchester-city-said-to-earn-300-million-pounds-in-10-year-etihad-pact.html?

I like the sound of that one!

Holy smokes!

If thats accurate then thats 30 mill a year!

Put that in yer pipe and smoke it twatini!

And because it's for the entire SportCity, there is no precedent, therefore it is exactly market value.

Hehe somewhere twatinis head just exploded :-)