Hmm… I don’t know about you, but this Manchester United game makes me really want to see that new X-Men movie?
If you thought you had seen every possible way for the Red Devils to promote their global partnership deals.
The club have an official partner for just about everything, timekeeping, food and of course, the movie business.
Their partnership with 20th Century Fox has probably caused fans to wince the most of late. It started with the players all getting very excited about the Revenant, so much so, that a lot of them (by coincidence, we’re sure) decided to tweet about how much their looking forward to seeing the film.
Then some of their stars featured in a Deadpool trailer and just when you thought it had all come to an end, before their last game of the season against Bournemeouth, they managed to plug this partnership one more time.
Three MUFC mascots painted blue as part of promotion of club's commercial partner 20th Century Fox's new X-Men movie pic.twitter.com/m3uralo1a8
— Sam Wallace (@SamWallaceTel) May 17, 2016
On closer inspection, it gets much, much worse. Each of the 11 children have the names of the X-Men characters on the back of their kits.
Modern day football. Manchester United's mascots promoting the new X-Men movie. 🔴⚽️ pic.twitter.com/OfYsdpD3Wo
— Football Tweet ⚽ (@Football__Tweet) May 17, 2016
