ARTICLE: The Orient Game – Match Programme

[ClaretTony]

A look at the programme from that day

See link
https://www.uptheclarets.com/the-orient ... -programme

[huw.Y.WattfromWare]

Just been looking at mine and noticed you were ball sponsor for the Colchester game.
Attendance: 1692. That is how far we've come.

[ClaretTony]

Just been looking at mine and noticed you were ball sponsor for the Colchester game.
Attendance: 1692. That is how far we've come.

I was. Ball sponsor for the game with the lowest attendance. It was a farce. The photographer didn’t turn up because he was owed money, they’d not arranged seats for us and after the game Bernard Rothwell, a director, tried to throw us out because he didn’t know who we were. One of my guests that night, someone I was trying to get to invest, could have bought and sold Rothwell over and over again but found him so offensive I couldn’t even persuade him to come to another game.

Joe Gallagher, Leighton James & Billy Rodaway were brilliant with us that night.

As for the ball, I gave it away a year later for a charity raffle.

[Cajun]

The cover of the programme is as poor as some of the football we played then. I have two copies, one bought, one picked up off the pitch later on

[Burnley1989]

I was. Ball sponsor for the game with the lowest attendance. It was a farce. The photographer didn’t turn up because he was owed money, they’d not arranged seats for us and after the game Bernard Rothwell, a director, tried to throw us out because he didn’t know who we were. One of my guests that night, someone I was trying to get to invest, could have bought and sold Rothwell over and over again but found him so offensive I couldn’t even persuade him to come to another game.

Joe Gallagher, Leighton James & Billy Rodaway were brilliant with us that night.

As for the ball, I gave it away a year later for a charity raffle.

I love it when people completely underestimate others like that, I’ve been with a millionaire when some snotty women asked us to leave a bar if we weren’t going to spend the sort of money she expected (buy a bottle of spirits at £300 each) we just walked out as some random person explained who he was to her

[ClaretTony]

I love it when people completely underestimate others like that, I’ve been with a millionaire when some snotty women asked us to leave a bar if we weren’t going to spend the sort of money she expected (buy a bottle of spirits at £300 each) we just walked out as some random person explained who he was to her

Rothwell was pompous and ignorant - thought he was the big I am when he got on the board

[tim_noone]

I was. Ball sponsor for the game with the lowest attendance. It was a farce. The photographer didn’t turn up because he was owed money, they’d not arranged seats for us and after the game Bernard Rothwell, a director, tried to throw us out because he didn’t know who we were. One of my guests that night, someone I was trying to get to invest, could have bought and sold Rothwell over and over again but found him so offensive I couldn’t even persuade him to come to another game.

Joe Gallagher, Leighton James & Billy Rodaway were brilliant with us that night.

As for the ball, I gave it away a year later for a charity raffle.

Have I read this post before?

[bfcjg]

Who was the potential investor Tony or is it confidential ?

[ClaretTony]

Who was the potential investor Tony or is it confidential ?

He’s since passed away. He wasn’t mega rich but he’d have been of some help at the time.

[bfcjg]

Did he also like cricket ?

[ClaretTony]

Did he also like cricket ?

Strange question but not as I’m aware.

[Herts Clarets]

Not the first time I have heard Rothwell described as pompous and ignorant......

[groove]

I didn't manage to buy a programme that day. They'd all been snapped up by vulturous ghouls. A mate from school came to the match with us, a United fan. His Dad had given him an extra fiver to purchase 10 programmes. I remember feeling glad that they'd sold out.

[J_Grimshaw]

Is it true there was a limited edition grander programme in blue?

[ClaretTony]

Is it true there was a limited edition grander programme in blue?

Never seen one

[IanMcL]

The programmes were long gone when I got there.

As for your question:

Ever heard anyone go ‘Ah, Lords Printers, that’s where I’ll go for all those printing jobs I’ve been meaning to do but never quite got around to’? Whatever, if it pays for the programme, who cares?'
.............

It is all part of the negotiation on price! The advert being thrown in, by one side or the other, to seal the deal.

What's the point? Same as other ads. The fans work somewhere, so when their company or their boss thinks out loud, about increasing awareness, the printers name will be in the mix. Feel good factor for BFC could also come into play.

That time when your hobby club committee say, "We need some hand bills, posters, programmes for our big event", a fan will spit out those words, Might be worth getting a quote from Lord's printers".

The other reason....companies advertise because the owner is a fan, doing their best to help their club.