Real Madrid's New Club Badge
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Dear god, I'd forgotten that ever happened. Repressed memories.....
Ah. Silly me.
The devil looks tacky, to be fair...I've never liked it but it's hardly a swastika. As for dropping parts of the badge...Real have proved everything has a price. Even your arse.
Why the arabic specifically the Devil is bad in all the religions.
This. It's not effecting any other Madrid badge.
Find it funny how some United fans are getting on their high horse about Madrid being money hungry when we are nearly just as bad, have you seen some of the sponsorship deals we have signed over the years? Football is very much a business now, these deals are important when you are spending hundreds of millions on transfers every year.
The fact that they don't mind changing it in order not to alienate certain sponsors and fans means it is progressive.
Besides the fact United have played and trained numerous times and have sponsors in Arab countries without an issue. I think this is just a case of the odd over zealous sponsor most just get on with it.
Real are selling duffer's arse?
I like the devil. I hope it's never taken off our crest.
I was just saying that for me it doesn't make sense on a number of levels. Business (brands) and heritage are intertwined after all. Plus it panders to religious intolerance which isn't good to see.
Not staunchly, I don't think. Not on level with how the Irish appear to be (from this far point of view). Both Portugal and Spain have strong Catholic tradition but in these days it's mostly only old people in churches, and the average citizen doesn't really care or let religion influence their day-to-day. In my generation a great number of people are fairly anti-religious and I don't think it would be that different in Spain.
It still should go bad with the fans, I guess depending on how important they perceive the extra revenue to be. I'd hate to see my club changing its badge for something like this, even if it was this "tiny" change, and being an atheist. It's not an irrelevant detail, it's the royal coat of arms crown they're changing, and the club is still called Real.
EDIT: Should have read the article first. A change in a credit card logo sold in a far away corner of the world isn't likely to be much of an issue. Thought they were changing the logo for good, that would be huge. Still a strange principle, but a minor thing IMO.
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Actually, that's similar enough to Ireland. The religious cohort in Irish society was always aging and the recent scandals (institutionalised paedophilia etc.) accelerated the decline amongst younger Irish people (as well as a decent chunk of the older generations too)
I get the impression that Italians are still fairly religious in the younger generations, possibly the outlier in all of this?
No, it's not deja vu.
The article is new but I swear I've read this same story about a year ago already. Am I having some kind of dejavu?!?!
Well, I was raised a Catholic in a Catholic primary school and C of E secondary school and we had lessons about other faiths etc Tolerance was definitely on the agenda in Sunday sermons etc
Seems to me that the default Islamic stance is a lot more militant than Christian religions (yes I'm aware this is a generalisation but Islamic intolerance is oft reported in recent years)
Meh, as long as they don't replace it with the IS flag, right?
made me chuckle. Well done.The article is new but I swear I've read this same story about a year ago already. Am I having some kind of dejavu?!?!
Yes they do.
As far as changes go it's not very substantial, but the idea of making changes to something like the club crest to appease sponsors doesn't sit well with me.
Pretty much this.