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There exist many truisms in football. Two of them are: - There is a shitload of money in and around the game. - Footballers are a weird and stunted bunch, many with the dullness and charisma of a sack of rocks. These two facts sometimes combine serendipitously to provide us with moments of unintentional hilarity as corporations fall over each other to fleece us of even more of our cash. As we fast approach another international tournament where it's coming home, let's celebrate all of the funny, weird, terrible and otherwise bizarre adverts with footballers in. I want to see your Overwrought Bollocks from Mega Corporations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSggaxXUS8k (fun facts: basically everyone starring in this video for the 2010 World Cup went on to have a shocking performance/ignominious early exit) Give me Manchester United players flogging all number of international beverages, terribly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6MkmonoaSw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2JA7jcieVI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2CrJFATypU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTaOLr9TTkM (seriously why do so many of these exist) Show me Deeply Cringeworthy Personal Sponsorships: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oke5G_RJWzI (what the gently caress how did I never see this at the time) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4zYt4roWWM Delight us with Michael Owen (someone else can scour the internet for evidence of the rest of the poo poo on this list): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwq7gJlH59g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIfNWmXFvBc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRG57-xJyOQ I want Deeply Out Of Touch Enforced Adverts for Club Sponsors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn6fNYwtGc4 (loving kill me also I love me a nice pint of water down the pub with my m9s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vImUCBO3yvA Whatever this is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBFAOUCi1b4 Not Really An Advert But We Stuck It On A Billboard In The Middle Of Manchester And It Was Funny:  loving Venkys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYwf2SBWa5o (The idea of a bunch of journeymen cloggers and Morten Gamst Pederson choking down mouthful after mouthful of poo poo factory farmed cold chicken to film this advert fills me with a terrible sort of misanthropic glee) I've barely scratched the surface here. Show us your weird print ads, local tie-ins, terrible shite from years hence, footballers attempting to make a quick buck hawking shite in markets far from home, whatever, let's all lol at it all.
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Jun 2, 2021 15:54
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The 90s were a superior time for football advertising. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP5Ye5-LES8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOM1k4oLGJU I'll take Cantona killing the devil with a flaming football over Wayne Rooney awkwardly telling me that a new devil has arrived any day.
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Jun 2, 2021 16:14
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Ads that stuck out at me for various reasons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgpRlNxQ3HM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvZWGYkTR7U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZA-57h64kE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2H7qqKjVVQ
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Jun 2, 2021 16:14
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Bloody 'ell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn2D7-nezwY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YyUrlxnFww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAZnyE-I7dg
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Jun 2, 2021 16:23
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qknteb8Klo Mickolution posted:Bloody 'ell. the entire op could have been manchester united adverts
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Jun 2, 2021 16:29
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I was thinking about this one while reading the England Clusterfuck Thread this morning. 
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Jun 2, 2021 16:39
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I love that everyone else appears to be fulfilling their stated contractual duties, and then Mata is all but making the lightsaber sounds
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Jun 2, 2021 16:42
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Mickolution posted:Bloody 'ell. lmao at all of these, wtf
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Jun 2, 2021 16:47
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Has Chris Smalling always been overdubbed by Richard Ayoade?
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Jun 2, 2021 16:54
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This one needs a Smack My Bitch Up-style ending where he looks in the mirror and it's Jamie Vardy
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Jun 3, 2021 17:38
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Jun 3, 2021 22:44
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Love me some old timey smoking adverts, like when they make a point of calling one particular brand smooth on the throat like did they ever consider that just not smoking was possibly maybe smoother? No? Were there any chain smoking visionaries who wondered why they were coughing up loads of shite all the time and had a mouth that tasted like an ashtray?
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Jun 3, 2021 23:46
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I've never seen the Ringo cookies outside of Italy, but I'm sure they have them in other European countries at least. They kinda taste like poo poo but they've been around forever and do a lot of football ads. Kaka saying "Do you ringo?" in weird Ital-English always made me kind of ill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJtuXGcqAwQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HokdYILBO4 Ronald was in this one very recently and he got a lot of poo poo because of the last 2 seconds where he says "ti aspecto!". It means "I'm waiting for you" but the word is "aspetto" without the c. You have to wonder if they did 1 take of this and he hosed off without bothering to redo any of it because he costs a million euros a second to be in an ad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlkqhYkeASg
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Jun 4, 2021 00:08
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Butterfly Valley posted:Love me some old timey smoking adverts, like when they make a point of calling one particular brand smooth on the throat like did they ever consider that just not smoking was possibly maybe smoother? No? Were there any chain smoking visionaries who wondered why they were coughing up loads of shite all the time and had a mouth that tasted like an ashtray? They were trying to sell the cigarettes OP
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Jun 4, 2021 00:09
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This McDonalds/O’Higgins collab e: this is more advertising in football, but gently caress it I’m posting it
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Jun 4, 2021 03:15
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Redczar posted:This McDonalds/O’Higgins collab https://twitter.com/MattChReport/status/1252583855887986689
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Jun 4, 2021 03:18
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still the best football advert? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP5Ye5-LES8
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Jun 4, 2021 13:41
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It's a banger. I prefer this one https://youtu.be/I1_x0r9zDsY Or the cage ones.
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Jun 4, 2021 14:04
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Is it mandatory to have Eric Cantona mugging in every football advert?
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Jun 4, 2021 14:07
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I quite like the one with Suarez working in an office; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT6tUK1WbC4
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Jun 4, 2021 14:47
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that leo messi footbubbles one is pure  , how much could they possibly be paying him?
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Jun 5, 2021 08:48
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I just remembered this sega commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGTiVC-Zj-0
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Jun 5, 2021 15:17
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Jun 5, 2021 16:56
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Peter Shillton
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Jun 5, 2021 16:58
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Trying to find the Glen Hoddle Cheerios box from the 90s but Googling "Glen Hoddle Cheerios" just pops up a load of things about his heart attack
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Jun 5, 2021 17:02
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Now I want some Gerrard slippers
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Jun 5, 2021 18:15
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"Your husky good looks will be the stepping stone to an exciting new life" is an excellent phrase thanks
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Jun 5, 2021 21:35
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My buddy in high school who got me into football was a big Man U supporter who had these ads taped on his bedroom wall:   Becks sure has shilled for a lot of stuff.
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Jun 5, 2021 22:11
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Keegan is a goldmine for this thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf-4Gbqyni4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSBAVfwPRvs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE8Lk2kSCDo
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Jun 5, 2021 23:11
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https://youtu.be/uyZ7TfC5shU
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Jun 6, 2021 02:34
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Deserves to be inline
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Jun 6, 2021 14:40
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This one's my favorite. It scratches such a fantasy football itch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfEGxyS7_8g
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Jun 7, 2021 04:47
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The Cantona cage match ones were the best but I did also really enjoy Write The Future because it introduced a global audience to the batshit insanity of Focus.
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Jun 7, 2021 19:45
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Just saw this one in the wild: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rn8yxZhETs
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Jun 11, 2021 14:05
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Can only find the Twitter version of this one, but have seen it on TV. Acting is on a par with Rooney... https://twitter.com/boylesports/status/1400761886774284296?s=11
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Jun 14, 2021 11:10
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blessed ronald stands alone against this crass commercialisation https://streamable.com/wrreh5
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Jun 14, 2021 18:49
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lukaku starred in a kinder bueno ad when he was 16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE8QDDtmbWs
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Jun 14, 2021 21:31
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belgend posted:lukaku starred in a kinder bueno ad when he was 16 Dude looks 30.
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Jun 14, 2021 23:53
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FullLeatherJacket posted:blessed ronald stands alone against this crass commercialisation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhJlUUoewtw
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