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We need to talk about Mighty Red.

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Cos they were about last time Arsenal won a trophy

(Originally posted in April 2014)
 
Portly said:
Northern football supporters, and particularly Liverpool and Everton supporters, take their football really seriously. They hate razamatazz ideas like mascots as they feel they defile the sanctity of the stadium. When Sky Sports first started broadcasting Premier League matches, they hit on the idea of scantily-clad go-go dancers. These were chased away with the same zeal as if they had popped up during a Methodist conference.

Actually I quite liked the idea of the go-go dancers. 🙁
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It's all got fuck all to do with the match.

I hate all that shite. I hate shitty forced half time entertainment instead of some fat waster taking pens. I hate mascots, I hate jester hats, big fuck off foam hands, people watching the match through their phones (the excuse that it's their only time there is daft, if it's your only time there then enjoy it instead of watching on a small screen), the never ending sponsors (Liverpool fc only use kleenex toilet roll to wipe their shite off their arse), I hate that awful goddamn basketball music that clubs like Bolton & Blackburn play when their team scores, the fact that commentators are forced to call grounds by their sponsored names.

It's all shite.

Liverpool have avoided a great deal of it, to do something as tacky as this is awful.

Besides that, if you're a young mascot, who do you want to lead you onto the pitch, Steven Gerrard, or some arsehole in a red pterodactyl costume? It's stealing their most precious moment of the day. They can fuck off.
 
As far as mascots go though, Mighty Red is amongst the best out there. Actually makes sense with the club, and not too creepy.

I don't have a problem with it.

We wouldn't be trotting him out there if it didn't work, we are run by successful businessmen after all. And is it works, I can't really complain.
 
Portly said:
Northern football supporters, and particularly Liverpool and Everton supporters, take their football really seriously. They hate razamatazz ideas like mascots as they feel they defile the sanctity of the stadium. When Sky Sports first started broadcasting Premier League matches, they hit on the idea of scantily-clad go-go dancers. These were chased away with the same zeal as if they had popped up during a Methodist conference.

Actually I quite liked the idea of the go-go dancers. 🙁
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Yep. Mind you, Goodison does feature such tacky little things as the 'Show your appreciation for...' announcements for subs etc. Still quite restrained, I guess, given the fact that Bill 'Fifty years in the business, darling' Kenwright is in charge!

(And I wish someone would sabotage that new ritual of the ref collecting the match ball from a special little dais on the pitch. Nick the ball and put a wad of fake notes there instead ready for the cameras.)
 
FoxForceFive said:
It's all got fuck all to do with the match.

I hate all that shite. I hate shitty forced half time entertainment instead of some fat waster taking pens. I hate mascots, I hate jester hats, big fuck off foam hands, people watching the match through their phones (the excuse that it's their only time there is daft, if it's your only time there then enjoy it instead of watching on a small screen), the never ending sponsors (Liverpool fc only use kleenex toilet roll to wipe their shite off their arse), I hate that awful goddamn basketball music that clubs like Bolton & Blackburn play when their team scores, the fact that commentators are forced to call grounds by their sponsored names.

It's all shite.

Liverpool have avoided a great deal of it, to do something as tacky as this is awful.

Besides that, if you're a young mascot, who do you want to lead you onto the pitch, Steven Gerrard, or some arsehole in a red pterodactyl costume? It's stealing their most precious moment of the day. They can fuck off.
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Agree with all of this, especially the basketball music. I watch a lot of local ice hockey, that's where this stuff works, chucking the puck at half time, music between play, and music when scoring, Frizzy the bear walking around the rink posing for pictures with the kids, it's great, it's the way the sport is and works with the close knit family feel you get a lot at ice hockey. Football is a completely different game, it's traditions are English, not North American, it doesn't need tat level of exuberance, it just needs to remain grounded and simple, hopefully fans will moan enough that Mighty Red stays out of the stadium.
 
Seriously some of you take things far to seriously, it's a mascot and if some of the younger fans enjoy then what's the big deal?

Get over it.
 
How do you know the younger fans like it? You read it in a press release? I suspect YOU are Mighty Red and therefore require duffing up.
 
I asked my daughter, aged 9, to appraise Mighty Red as a bit of an independent reviewer. Here are the results.....


So this is Mighty Red, new LFC mascot, what do you think:

Erm....what is it? What's it meant to be? It's weird Dad.

It's meant to be a Liverbird *point out the Liverbird on an LFC badge*:

Hahaha. It isn't.

Do you find it scary? (*Aimee has a weird phobia of clowns and strange costumed figures sorta thing):

No. It's just a bit stupid. Definitely not cool.


OK, Aimee is prolly a bit old, but then for whom is Mighty Red going to appeal? 3-6? Is it really worth it for the 3-6 year old demographic?
 
The poor bloke that's vacating the costume must feel like some divvy now.
Thought he had a job for life there.
It's probably Ian Ayre though.
 
i'm thinking.....do they wear that suit naked/semi-naked/clothed ?

what if it's in the searing heat of summer ?

and if nude, a bit weird innit ?

almost pedo-bear like territory.
 
They must be using some very basic poll programme at the Echo, I've voted 'No' 10 times now just by refreshing their page with a type of "Hide My Ass" service. I think I'll stop soon.
 
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