
The representative of the Paddy Power bookmaker, who posted in the cities of England posters calling for football players to find a second profession, explained the reasons for this action. According to him, no one insulted athletes, and the company is not going to apologize to them.
Recall that the victim of this advertising campaign was the former captain of the Russian national football team Andrei Arshavin, who was frankly ridiculed on a Billboard near the club store of the London Arsenal. The lack of playing time Andrei is proposed to compensate for the cleaning work of toilets in the stadium .
“A special creative group worked on the creation of these posters,” one of the blog editors on Paddy Power said in an interview with “Soviet sports” . “It was they who came up with a similar action. Its goal is to appeal to the conscience of the players who receive huge salaries and at the same time either do not go on the field at all, or they are invented by the posters, with a call to find everyone with a call to find everyone Of the mentioned football players, the second work.
According to him, Andrei Arshavin was one of the first candidates. “In England, he is a noticeable figure, just like Odeming, Torres or Bosingwa. All these legionnaires get a lot of money. They are like baking cats: they don’t care what the fans think, these players do not care about the quality of their football,” the newspaper’s interlocutor believes.
"As far as I know, the second profession was not selected very carefully. Just Arshavin was less fortunate than the rest. Moreover, others had his own stories in relations with clubs. Odemwyyy went to London for negotiations with the CPR, and we advised him to become a driver of the bus fans bus. And Bosingva was unhappy that he was offered on the scam, so he was offered to help the stewardes to the steward. matches, ”added Paddy Power.