Players losing their bottle

[the count]

Euro 2020: Uefa warns teams could be fined if they move drinks at news conferences


On Monday, Portugal captain Ronaldo removed two bottles of Coca-Cola and encouraged people to drink water.
The next day, France midfielder Pogba, a practising Muslim, discreetly removed a bottle of Heineken beer.
Italy's Manuel Locatelli also replaced Coca-Cola with water on Wednesday.
"Uefa has reminded participating teams that partnerships are integral to the delivery of the tournament and to ensuring the development of football across Europe, including for youth and women," tournament organisers said on Thursday.
Uefa's Euro 2020 tournament director Martin Kallen said players were contractually obliged "through their federation of the tournament regulations to follow".
However, he said he understood the actions of players who, like Pogba, did such things for religious reasons.
Teams have been reminded of their contractual regulations and Kallen said disciplinary action was "a possibility".
Uefa does not intend to directly fine players and any sanctions are at the discretion of the national federations.
"We are never fining players directly from the Uefa side, we will do this always through the participating national association and then they could look if they will go further to the player, but we are not going directly for the moment to the player," Kallen said.
"We have the regulations signed by the participating federations."

 

[Bradley]

It's interesting, you can see the point of Ronaldo in terms of his influence on kids and health etc. It doesn't make that much difference to his pocket at this point, he's made his millions. But if the likes of Coca Cola pull sponsorship from events, it makes it a lot harder for the next Ronaldo to earn obscene amounts of cash. I'm alright with that too in fairness.

 

[Bradley]

I probably overlooked the fact that the sponsorship money is more lining UEFA and FIFA pockets than the players. So that's why they are so fucked off with this.

 

[keniget]

Predictable response by UEFA - they can't have their sponsors being shat on like that so publicly.

And players are like sheep - as soon as one does something, they'll all be doing it. Though I was amused by Yarmolenko's take.

 

[LeTallecWiz]

 

[LeTallecWiz]

Predictable response by UEFA - they can't have their sponsors being shat on like that so publicly.

And players are like sheep - as soon as one does something, they'll all be doing it. Though I was amused by Yarmolenko's take.

The Russias coach was funny too.

 

[Beamrider]

Of course, if UEFA got some decent sponsors, rather than ones that want to sports wash their reputation, then there wouldn't be an issue.
Fair play to Ronaldo, and I hope more players follow suit.

 

[Athens]

UEFA really are a shower of bastards.

Wasn't there an incident during one Euro championship when loads of Dutch fans were told to remove their shorts before entering the stadium because they had the logo from a beer that weren't sponsors?

 

[the count]

UEFA really are a shower of bastards.

Wasn't there an incident during one Euro championship when loads of Dutch fans were told to remove their shorts before entering the stadium because they had the logo from a beer that weren't sponsors?

Was it that some company were using models to wear eye catching clothing to games with the sponsors name all over them knowing that the cameras would pick them out in the crowd.
Amstel maybe?

 

[Athens]

Was it that some company were using models to wear eye catching clothing to games with the sponsors name all over them knowing that the cameras would pick them out in the crowd.
Amstel maybe?

Yeah, I believe they've pulled similar stunts a few times. I think they handed out these shorts to the Dutch fans after the end of one match so the Dutch guys wore them to the next one, but then were told to remove them. I can't remember which company it was.

Edit: I think the model stunt was done first and that's why the organisers then started asking punters to remove clothing with the names of other brands.

 

[The Nomad]

They irony is Ronaldo made a fair wedge from endorsing coke earlier in his career. Only to say not a drop will pass his lips.

He should give all that money back the cunt.

 

[tombrown]

UEFA really are a shower of bastards.

Wasn't there an incident during one Euro championship when loads of Dutch fans were told to remove their shorts before entering the stadium because they had the logo from a beer that weren't sponsors?

I think the UEFA official, in that case, was a Catholic priest and he later claimed it had nothing to do with the beer logo

 

[Athens]

I think the UEFA official, in that case, was a Catholic priest and he later claimed it had nothing to do with the beer logo

Nah, these were adults, not schoolboys.

 

[Hansern]

Of course, if UEFA got some decent sponsors, rather than ones that want to sports wash their reputation, then there wouldn't be an issue.
Fair play to Ronaldo, and I hope more players follow suit.

Whats wrong with Coca-Cola?

 

[StevieM]

UEFA really are a shower of bastards.

Wasn't there an incident during one Euro championship when loads of Dutch fans were told to remove their shorts before entering the stadium because they had the logo from a beer that weren't sponsors?

I think they were all wearing Heineken suits while Budweiser was the sponsor and were made to take their clothes off if they wanted to go to the match.

Unfortunately they were all blokes...

 

[tombrown]

Nah, these were adults, not schoolboys.

I did actually read it as "Dutch boys" which was why I posted that.

Now the fact that I read it that way is worrying me ...

 

[Beamrider]

Whats wrong with Coca-Cola?

Agua!

 

[mwake]

Whats wrong with Coca-Cola?

They removed the cocaine

 

[Athens]

Whats wrong with Coca-Cola?

It does have an awful lot of sugar in it.

I love the stuff, I used to drink a half litre bottle of it every day with my lunch. Stopped drinking it ages ago, I think I've had about 3 or 4 cans of it in the past 7 years.

There's nothing like an ice cold can of it on a hot summer's day.... except for a beer, of course.

 

[refugee]

Whats wrong with Coca-Cola?

They are responsible for a lot of the worlds single use plastic.

 

[Hansern]

They are responsible for a lot of the worlds single use plastic.

The bottles are 100% recyleable, 15% plant based here in Norway.
Other countries are following as well.

 

[Hansern]

It does have an awful lot of sugar in it.

I love the stuff, I used to drink a half litre bottle of it every day with my lunch. Stopped drinking it ages ago, I think I've had about 3 or 4 cans of it in the past 7 years.

There's nothing like an ice cold can of it on a hot summer's day.... except for a beer, of course.

Yeah, obviously with Regular Coke. But you’ve got loads of sugar free or water drinks if thats the preference. Regarding regular Coke its just about how often and how many in my opinion.
Nothing wrong with enjoying some during the weekend.

I’m obviously partial though, I’ve worked there for 15 years.

 

[Athens]

Yeah, obviously with Regular Coke. But you’ve got loads of sugar free or water drinks if thats the preference. Regarding regular Coke its just about how often and how many in my opinion.
Nothing wrong with enjoying some during the weekend.

I’m obviously partial though, I’ve worked there for 15 years.

Are you lot part of the 3ε family?

 

[Hansern]

Are you lot part of the 3ε family?

Dont know what that is :/

 

[Athens]

Dont know what that is :/

That's a no then!

It's a Greek company, 3ε (three epsilon), they own the rights to bottle coke in what seems like half of Europe. Greece, Ireland, Ukraine, Russia, Poland and a few others. I only know this because I sometimes worked with a language school who had a contract with them and we had guys from Russia and whatnot come to Greece to improve their English.

It was the best job I ever had.

 

[Fallon]

The bottles are 100% recyleable, 15% plant based here in Norway.
Other countries are following as well.

They're out and out cunts!
They're still the biggest plastic polluters in the world amongst drink companies. They're also responsible for around 10M (some think much higher) hectares of deforestation in the last 30 years too.
They make $2Billion net profit a year, the pricks could be fully green if they wanted to.

 

[refugee]

The bottles are 100% recyleable, 15% plant based here in Norway.
Other countries are following as well.

So what you are saying is, they have the ability to stop being cunts, but they are waiting till someone makes them.

Also, 100% recyclable plastic is still not sustainable as PET, which they use, loses mass every time its recycled.

 

[Bradley]

So what you are saying is, they have the ability to stop being cunts, but they are waiting till someone makes them.

Also, 100% recyclable plastic is still not sustainable as PET, which they use, loses mass every time its recycled.

I took students to the plant they have in Lisburn recently.

One of their championed points on the tour was that each day they created enough PET bottles that if you laid them end to end, it would reach Cork. T'was fucking horrifying.
.

 

[ILD]

Was it that some company were using models to wear eye catching clothing to games with the sponsors name all over them knowing that the cameras would pick them out in the crowd.
Amstel maybe?

Was it something to do with models advertising Corona?

 

[Hansern]

So what you are saying is, they have the ability to stop being cunts, but they are waiting till someone makes them.

Also, 100% recyclable plastic is still not sustainable as PET, which they use, loses mass every time its recycled.

No, thats not what I’m saying. This has been a work in progress since 2012. Continuing to invest and develop in sustainable strategies. A percentage of all bottles produced have been plant bottles and sustinable, but now in 2021 in Norway every bottle produced is sustainable and plant based, also PET.
Norway is quite uniqe given that we have a return rate of 97%.
Its pretty clear that other countries will soon be 100% sustainable as well given the focus and investment.