Marcus Evans F.C.
By: Craig | June 24th, 2008
He’s alright that Marcus Evans for pumping his millions of pounds into my beloved football team and saving us from the purgatory of mid-table football (all being well). I don’t know him and like 99.9% of Town fans, I don’t even know what he looks like. Sometimes I wonder if he has a secret underground office in London that is reachable via an underground tunnel from Portman Road that only Jim Magilton and Derek Bowden are privvy to?
However, this invisible grip on the club and insistence on anonymity is definitely to be commended and is rather refreshing in this age of Thaksin Abramaglazers. That was until a week or so ago when I found out that his name will be emblazoned across the Town strip until 2013 in big white letters. This crosses a line for me. It’s as if he has declared to the world that Ipswich is solely his and it almost feels as if the club is now a handy promotional vehicle for his hospitality empire, which – if all goes to plan – will see his brand advertised to millions of people when Town do make the Premiership.
Imagine Manchester United having ‘Malcolm Glazer’ printed on their shirts or ‘Hicks and Gillett’ at Liverpool? There’d be chaos! Sure, Evans’s invisibility sets him apart from the hate figures mentioned above, but perhaps he could have left the sponsorship open to the number of local companies interested in taking the opportunity? People may welcome the reported £4m the sponsorship deal will bring into the club, but I much preferred having the local likes of Fisons across the shirt, even if it was a shit sponsor, literally.
Category: Ipswich Town Team News
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What a strange decision for an owner to make! You’re right, I simply couldn’t imagine United with Malcolm Glazer on their shirts.
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Well, give him a little break. As far as I know, Glazer’s company name isn’t Glazer. This dude actually calls his company Marcus Evans, so in that respect its no different than Emirates or Carlsberg or Gazprom and still, in my opinion better, than renaming the team Red Bull.
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Well guys
I actually work for the man
He is cool and the name of the company is Marcus Evans so maybe you should have a read
Anyway hope Ipswich will do very well this season
Thanks
Beba
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Can’t stand them being involved with our club to be honest.
Used to work there and it’s a horrible company that lies to clients, treats staff terribly, takes legal action against staff in their early 20s who earn just about minimum wage and then dare to leave the company and work for a competitor.
On a personal level I did well there but what I saw, heard and knew was shocking.
Marcus Evans is a Chelsea fan who attempted to buy Southampton before us. Ipswich in his words is “an extension of our brand” and a “commercial opportunity”. Now if this brings success to Town then fair enough but when push comes to shove it’s his business ahead of ITFC and that worries me.
PS – I know for a fact that no money actually changed hands for the sponsorship deal. ME may have put money in elsewhere but this was not a case of a large lot of money coming our way.
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So far Marcus Evans’ involvement with Ipswich Town appears to have been very beneficial for the club, bringing stability and financial investment that has enabled manager Jim Magilton to improve the squad to the point where hopefully they can challenge for promotion to the Premier League.
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