Footie's bizarre backers

RICKY ISN'T GAME'S ODDEST SPONSOR

- JAMES MOORE

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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