Comments on: Aston Villa announce sponsorship deal with Acorns

By: Callumbcfc

Callumbcfc — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:39:26 +0000

Fair play Villa, coming from a bluenose.

By: Villa _hg

Villa _hg — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:47:32 +0000

Why do you have to make giving money to charity a competition? Villa are just the first to put a charity on their shirt in the prem league. Props to them

By: BluesForLife

BluesForLife — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:56:37 +0000

I support Chelsea, but as an American I love to see how Lerner is setting a good example for American owners in the Prem. I’ve always liked Villa and it’s great to see them doing this. Fair play to them and to Lerner; he’s a class act.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:40:14 +0000

Chris you jealous moron, stfu accept it villa have done better than everton in donating money to charities. While all charities are good, villa are helping spread awareness of the charity and donating more than 6 million pound to it, which is more than everton have done. So just because Villa have outdone everton accept it, your clearly a bitter everton fan. Accept it.

Well done Villa from an FC United fan

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:25:32 +0000

You obviously dont’ know of everton in the community then.

They help under privelaged children in the poorer areas in Liverpool and send them on specially arranged training days in order for them to get away from the deprived areas they’re used to.

Then there’s the whole village everton donated £2million to build in thailand after the tsunami.

Plus there is all the former players charities and all the donations to a local children’s hospice.

I’m all for charity, but I think this is just a PR stunt. And the fact everyone is making a huge fuss over it is wrong.

And everton donated 75% of the shirt sales.

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:21:42 +0000

Chris, you’ve got it all wrong mate, Villa have organised days, events, fundraising drives for acorns for about 2 years without really getting anywhere, where as both Villa and Everton have made great gestures to charity, villa’s gone a step further

its genius really, our contract with 32red was up, in jan negotations we couldnt guarentee europe, we do charity PR for a year, do get europe get higher shirt sponsor next year – everybody wins

By: newcastle utd Gavin McElroy

newcastle utd Gavin McElroy — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:52:17 +0000

sure look at us (newcastle utd) we kept northern rock despite all the controversy suronding them we kept a local company on because they supply the coumminty with jobs so well done to lener but i agree with chris orther teams have dont it before so its no big chesse

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:57:36 +0000

who cares if it’s a publicity stunt – surely that’s the idea?! To raise awareness of charities work – the more shirts they sell the better for the charities, who obviously get a cut of the profits…

C-M is spot on – why don’t the big four do it? Don’t criticise Villa, look at the big four…

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:42:54 +0000

Brilliant move. Well done Villa.

I’m a Spurs fan but have always liked Villa. You’ve got a great manager, some great English talent and it looks like a great chairman too. Looking forward to tussle with you for European places next season (given that we don’t implode like last season!).

Hope other clubs follow suit. I’d much rather see Spurs with a chairty on their shirt than a gambling firm.

By: C-M

C-M — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:33:52 +0000

Chris, Villa have been involved with charities for years – to waive the money a sponsorship package is a massive decision, and you don’t see any of the ‘big clubs’ (i.e Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal & Chelsea) giving anything back on a similar scale, do you?

Lets see if this promotes similar attitudes towards the community from other teams.

Everton did ONE DAY, sold shirts, and still had 50% of the sales, which is more than they cost to make anyway. So surely Villa going an ENTIRE SEASON without ANY of the normal income recieved from sponsorship packages is impressive?

I think so.