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Footie's bizarre backers
Daily Star
|August 27, 2025
RICKY ISN'T GAME'S ODDEST SPONSOR
TV wag Ricky Gervais has said he would be prepared to sponsor a football club - as long as the players wore shirts that said: “I love Ricky” or “I want my mummy”.
As we revealed yesterday, The Office star-whose vodka brand already sponsors York City - would personally back another team if he could make them sport a funny message on their kits.
But there have already been plenty of unusual soccer sponsors, as JAMES MOORE reveals...
What a shot!
Black Death Vodka sponsored Scarborough FC during the 1990-91 season, until the name was banned by the FA. In 1973 Jägermeister got round a curb on sponsoring shirts when German team Eintracht Braunschweig changed their club badge to the name of the liqueur brand.
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