West Bromwich Albion to show World Cup Bid support
West Bromwich Albion will be getting firmly behind the World Cup Bid Team during Saturday's home clash with Newcastle - by adding 'England 2018' logos to the players' shirts.
The Baggies approached the Bid team to offer them the vacant space on the front of the players' shirts for this Hawthorns fixture (ko 5.30pm), which will be screened live on BBC1, back in July.
The proposal was immediately accepted and the Club are delighted to be playing their part in rallying support for England's hopes of staging the World Cup in nine years' time.
"We are delighted to be supporting the Bid campaign," said Albion Chairman Jeremy Peace.
"It would be a dream come true for every football fan in this country if we could earn the right to stage another World Cup and this is a great opportunity for us, as a club, to play our part in promoting such a great cause.
Albion's support for the Bid will go hand in hand with the full tribute planned at Saturday's game to honour the life and career of the last England manager to lead the country to a World Cup semi-final, Sir Bobby Robson.
"The Club very recently made a sizeable donation to the Foundation and we aim to raise further funds for Sir Bobby's charity by auctioning off all of the 18 shirts worn by our players on Saturday.
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Im Scottish and would love it if England got it. It would be great gor all of the UK.
Fud
Sassenachs would want us TAXPAYERS dosh to pay for it all, even us and other two hame nations. It is no benefit to the rest of the UK if they won the bid, because we have our own team who would have to qualify.
A World Cup wouldn\'t even compare to that, and who knows if you actually qualify you can come and smash up Manchester or wherever again.
Second, the logo\'s fine. At least it\'s simple. I\'d rather have this sort of thing than that monstrosity they cooked up for the London 2012 Olympic logo.
This logo looks like like it could be used for washing powder, cornflakes etc etc It\'\'s England and the World Cup for pete\'s sake. How much did the advertising gurus get paid for coming up with this !?
But lets put things into perspective. I\'m not sure that Sepp Blatter and all the FIFA executives will hand the 2018 World Cup to England as a result of a small Championship Club in the West Midlands putting the name of a country and a year on its home shirt!
Yes the game is on BBC and millions of people might see it but those people who watch this game are more than likely to be familiar with England\'s World Cup bid.
Don\'t want to sound to bias as a Wolves fan but its a stupid idea! Why not put the logo of Bobby Robson\'s Cancer Charity instead?
West Brom cannot do much to convince the FIFA bigwigs to hand the competition to England.
Bring the World Cup to England!