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WileBrownAstle · Joined: 03 Nov 2009 Posts: 1042 Location: Crewe

Manchester City have confirmed the City of Manchester Stadium will be renamed the Etihad Stadium after signing a 10-year deal with the airline.
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James · Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Posts: 485

I know i was a little sleepy this morning but i'm sure i read the sponsorship figure was around the £120million mark, that is just crazy, although to be fair they'll probably offer it all to Tevez in wages for the next two years..
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WileBrownAstle · Joined: 03 Nov 2009 Posts: 1042 Location: Crewe

I find it crazy too mate, The Foxes renamed there gorund this week as well.
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Auchinleckian · Forum Moderator Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 4352

When I first saw that I thought it said "E" Jihad...now that could have been absolutely mind blowing!

foxes1 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 1223 Location: Leicester

Our stadium is now known as the King Power Stadium 'KP ' for short and we are absolutely 'NUTS' about it Laughing

Also ETIHAD in Arabic means UNITED Shocked

WileBrownAstle · Joined: 03 Nov 2009 Posts: 1042 Location: Crewe

Never knew that about the UNITED bit.
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James · Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Posts: 485

As well as the stadium, there is also shirt and other sponsorship included to make a grand total of £400Million over the ten years Shocked

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pompeypete · Forum Moderator Joined: 17 Sep 2009 Posts: 1094

Just a fiddle to enable them to play in europe when the new rules take effect.
ie can't spend more than their income.

Watch the other top clubs come up with simalar ideas.
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MaccProgrammesWanted · Joined: 30 Sep 2010 Posts: 297 Location: Macclesfield

foxes1 wrote:

Our stadium is now known as the King Power Stadium 'KP ' for short and we are absolutely 'NUTS' about it Laughing

Also ETIHAD in Arabic means UNITED Shocked

Technically a better translation would translate it to 'unity' or 'union'. Although not a million miles away from the word United, it isn't - the press just had to jump on something that was being wrongly said on twitter.

Using this concept maybe we should now be calling the red half of the city 'Manchester Union' Laughing

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York · Joined: 07 Sep 2010 Posts: 43 Location: Acomb, York

Just a different way of money laundring.
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