Image by Flickr user IndieRonin and made available under Creative Commons - many thanks
Last weekend, on my way back from the special event that was Teachmeet Beyond, I had the chance to watch the Champions League Final.
Barcelona are a special football team. They have some excellent players of course, and do things in their own particular way: not taking corners in the traditional way for example...
One of the other special things that they do is to have a link with the children's charity UNICEF, which is about five years old now. Rather than have a sponsorship deal where the club is paid to advertise a trans-national company or local firm, Barcelona donate around 1.5 million Euros a year to fund projects by UNICEF.
It's also, as a Leeds fan, always a pleasure to see Man Utd lose...
I'm grateful to my Twitter stream for the 'company' of several people during the match... Lots of funny comments. One of them was "as if things aren't bad enough for Man Utd., they're going to get their losers medals from Nick Clegg"... and then he was actually there !
I was just rounding off this post and doing the final research and image selection when I came across this news item which sort of changed the slant of the post slightly...
Seems that from the 1st of July this year (in a few weeks time) the shirts will say QATAR FOUNDATION on the front. However, there will still be the UNICEF connection...
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