# so did barclays financial save english football **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 12, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-did-barclays-financial-save-english-football/793457 "2017-08-12T19:12:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-did-barclays-financial-save-english-football/793457/1 "2017-08-12T19:12:58Z")
I was going to check my aunts Barclays card and I typed it wrong and got the uk site and they had this “aint we great” article on how after the soccer riots they saved major league football football > **['Last-gasp' rescue of the Football League | Barclays](https://home.barclays/news/2017/08/last-gasp-rescue-of-the-football-league/)** > > In 1987, the English game was on the brink of disaster … then Barclays stepped in. I wondered how much of was true … ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-did-barclays-financial-save-english-football/793457/2 "2017-08-12T19:28:15Z")
Banks — and any other businesses — sponsoring _ **Football** _ — or any other sport makes me sick and pushes me to find alternatives. If they want to do good they can help single mothers or something. Fucking, fucking, fucking Football. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-did-barclays-financial-save-english-football/793457/3 "2017-08-12T22:01:24Z")
It’s almost complete bollocks, of course. To suggest that the then Football League would have somehow collapsed had the sponsorship deal not been announced is silly. The money in question was barely £35,000/yr per club in the top two tiers. Hardly the sort of money that bankrupts top footie clubs. I’d have been more willing to support a statement about the effect of sponsoring the move to the Premier League, but Barclay’s didn’t sponsor the PL until after 2000. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2017, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-did-barclays-financial-save-english-football/793457/4 "2017-08-12T23:07:37Z")
wow guys these days get 35k a year just for playing … it was cheap back then heh But yeah I thought it was a bit overstated and wanted to check ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2017, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-did-barclays-financial-save-english-football/793457/5 "2017-08-12T23:16:44Z")
> [@Evan\_Drake](#): > > Banks — and any other businesses — sponsoring _ **Football** _ — or any other sport makes me sick and pushes me to find alternatives. > > If they want to do good they can help single mothers or something. How do you know that they don’t do both? I don’t give a shit about sports but I know that sponsoring sports is great for marketing which increases business which leads to job growth and money for investors. They wouldn’t do it it wasn’t good for business. A simple Google search will show you that Barclay’s gives a ton of money and support to charities. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a PR thing which is also good for business. Still, your anger is hugely misplaced. ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-did-barclays-financial-save-english-football/793457/6 "2017-08-12T23:27:00Z")
I object to the fostering of simpleminded decadence typified by sports culture and it’s glorification in British life; and the fact up to a decade ago banks extorted huge profits through say, £30 each overdrawn letter ( the government clamped down on this ) and spent it on crap like football. If they had spent it on Arts, say concerts whether classical or pop-music, I wouldn’t be thrilled at my and millions having to pay for their generosity \*, but I could accept that. But the football industry is more than capable of looking after it’s own. So their marketing strategy actively _deters_ me and others. Which is like a billionaire setting up a charitable foundation, taking/extorting donations to fund it, and then taking all the kudos for money given that the donors would have given themselves. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2017, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-did-barclays-financial-save-english-football/793457/7 "2017-08-12T23:48:42Z")
It’s not supporting sports. It’s advertising. And they do the same thing with music too. You just don’t like sports. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2017, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-did-barclays-financial-save-english-football/793457/8 "2017-08-13T11:12:35Z")
.barclays is a tld now?