Remembering the Busby Babes

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Manchester United have decided to allow AIG corporate branding alongside the wonderful Busby Babes picture that has been put up on the front of the East Stand at Old Trafford in preparation for the 50th anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster. We, the undersigned, think it is appalling that AIG is trying to gain a commercial advantage by associating its logo with the anniversary of the tragedy, and believe this will only prove to be very bad P.R. for the company. We urge you to remove the logo as soon as possible in respect for those who lost their lives at Munich.

This terrible tragedy remains with all generations of United fans, and to see the logo of a sponsor who has nothing to do with Munich or our history causes further distance between ourselves and our club. We are disappointed with the club that they would use sponsors to highlight and publicise the Munich anniversary.

We as fans are asking the club to remove all sponsor branding, and ensure that no companies cash in on the 50th anniversary of Munich, which should be the sole preserve of the club, the fans and the families of those who perished and survived.

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# 1,811:

4:05 am PST, Jan 28, Hogne Fossland, Ireland
Please remove the AIG logo.

# 1,810:

3:26 am PST, Jan 28, Ronny Runesson, Sweden

# 1,809:

2:39 am PST, Jan 28, Nikki Morecroft, United Kingdom

# 1,808:

5:00 pm PST, Jan 27, Timm Fredrickson, Washington
Please if you must have the logo, donate a significant amount of money to the families of the deceased or some other charitble organization. If you can't or won't do this, then please remove the logo. Thank you.

# 1,807:

1:57 pm PST, Jan 27, Lee Shannon, United Kingdom

# 1,806:

1:03 pm PST, Jan 27, Name not displayed, Sweden

# 1,805:

11:33 am PST, Jan 27, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
Absolute joke, kill glazer, ACS is a scam!

# 1,804:

11:32 am PST, Jan 27, Navin Suckoo, Jamaica

# 1,803:

11:07 am PST, Jan 27, Jason Maindonald, United Kingdom

# 1,802:

10:49 am PST, Jan 27, Silky Wyld, Wisconsin

# 1,801:

9:34 am PST, Jan 27, Fredrik Werner, Sweden
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# 1,800:

7:57 am PST, Jan 27, Simon King, United Kingdom
When the club see the Munich disaster as a way of increasing revenue then it hits home how low the club will stoop. The Glazers care nothing for the history of our club, except if it means it can in someway help pay their debts

# 1,799:

6:02 am PST, Jan 27, Polly Odyssey, Missouri

# 1,798:

5:13 am PST, Jan 27, Adib Kosnan, Singapore

# 1,797:

3:48 am PST, Jan 27, Hollie Entwisle, United Kingdom

# 1,796:

3:32 am PST, Jan 27, Marcus S�derlund, Sweden
Madness!

# 1,795:

1:49 am PST, Jan 27, Name not displayed, Malta
This is a small thing for all their families. They were such good players. They will always be in the heart of the United supporters, old or young.

# 1,794:

11:28 pm PST, Jan 26, Lynn Barnes, Michigan

# 1,793:

11:00 pm PST, Jan 26, Bert Lewis, United Kingdom

# 1,792:

10:30 pm PST, Jan 26, Sharon Zahra, Australia
Out of respect to the Busby Babes and their famalies, why do we need a logo that has no great significance to that particular day.

# 1,791:

9:38 pm PST, Jan 26, Mikael Nilsson, Sweden

# 1,790:

8:40 pm PST, Jan 26, Mitchell Downes, Australia

# 1,789:

7:00 pm PST, Jan 26, BiLL Fowlie, Maine

# 1,788:

5:26 pm PST, Jan 26, Lukasz Fenrych, United Kingdom

# 1,787:

5:20 pm PST, Jan 26, Valerie L lurie, New Hampshire
remember the heros

# 1,786:

4:12 pm PST, Jan 26, Matt Cannon, United Kingdom
the overview says it all the banner is to remember the heroes not for an oppurtunistic advert

# 1,785:

2:55 pm PST, Jan 26, Tom Roberts, United Kingdom
Remember

# 1,784:

1:51 pm PST, Jan 26, Anders Carlson, Sweden
It`s a disgrace. What the hell has AIG with this tragedy to do??? Nothing

# 1,783:

1:01 pm PST, Jan 26, R Agha, United Kingdom
RIP ,

# 1,782:

12:14 pm PST, Jan 26, Rebecca Everhart, Indiana

# 1,781:

11:50 am PST, Jan 26, Andrew Callaghan, United Kingdom
This is about people who were around 50 years ago who suffered a terrible tragedy. It is a time to remember them and the fact they lost their lives representing Manchester United Football Club and respecting them and their families. It is certainly not an event to promote a company and try to get their name splashed all over a respectful event that has nothing to do with cooperate sponsership. It is a disgraceful and disrespectful act of shameless publicity from a company trying to put their name to a team they have only just heard about in the last 18 months. It has nothing to do with AIG and never will. This is about Manchester United and the fans, if AIG just want to show their resoect then I believe they can do this without branding their logo all over it.

# 1,780:

11:23 am PST, Jan 26, Jack Nichol, United Kingdom

# 1,779:

11:15 am PST, Jan 26, Anthony O donnell, United Kingdom

# 1,778:

10:33 am PST, Jan 26, Name not displayed, Sweden

# 1,777:

9:59 am PST, Jan 26, Damian Jackson, United Kingdom

# 1,776:

9:59 am PST, Jan 26, Vanessa Haydock, United Kingdom

# 1,775:

9:53 am PST, Jan 26, Nikhil Parulekar, India
Long live the Busby Babes!

# 1,774:

9:46 am PST, Jan 26, Ryan Hunt, United Kingdom
Get it off this is our clubs saddest event in its history, why would you want to gain money out of such a tragic event!?

# 1,773:

9:39 am PST, Jan 26, Derfel Parry, United Kingdom
they agreed not to put AIG on the kit.......SO WHY PUT IT UP ON THE FRONT OF OT???

# 1,772:

9:27 am PST, Jan 26, David Andrews, United Kingdom
AIG wrote to me after I asked them to remove their banner saying they have the blessing of the Busby family. I don't believe them. It is there to advertise AIG, plain and simple. Hence making money out of the tragedy. It's wrong! End of!

# 1,771:

8:57 am PST, Jan 26, Adam Morgan, United Kingdom

# 1,770:

8:46 am PST, Jan 26, Christian Beckman, Sweden
Sad story about what Manchster United FC do for long times heros memory!!! I have been train in the old school for suport the best footboll club in Europe! Hope we all can remember our heros in bether way!! Thank you

# 1,769:

8:33 am PST, Jan 26, Ava Irani, New York

# 1,768:

8:30 am PST, Jan 26, David Heraty, United Kingdom
typical, as soon as the american owners think they can make some money they don't care what they ruin!!

# 1,767:

8:13 am PST, Jan 26, Jeremy Griffiths, United Kingdom

# 1,766:

6:50 am PST, Jan 26, Ed Duffy, United Kingdom
we marketing genius thought this would be a good idea? whats next? sponsering the holocaust?

# 1,765:

6:10 am PST, Jan 26, Helen Stott, United Kingdom

# 1,764:

4:21 am PST, Jan 26, Name not displayed, United Kingdom

# 1,763:

3:53 am PST, Jan 26, Shaun Smith, United Kingdom

# 1,762:

3:41 am PST, Jan 26, Dino Papaevripides, United Kingdom
PLEASE remove the AIG logo

# 1,761:

3:41 am PST, Jan 26, Greg Willis, United Kingdom

# 1,760:

2:58 am PST, Jan 26, Matthew Judge, United Kingdom

# 1,759:

2:39 am PST, Jan 26, Name not displayed, Sweden

# 1,758:

2:15 am PST, Jan 26, Ziad Al jamaan, United Arab Emirates
Free Publicity???? Should be ashamed of yourselves

# 1,757:

2:04 am PST, Jan 26, Kim Karlsen, Norway

# 1,756:

1:23 am PST, Jan 26, Martin Sloan, United Kingdom
for ever and ever

# 1,755:

1:18 am PST, Jan 26, Ross Savage, United Kingdom

# 1,754:

12:59 am PST, Jan 26, Sheena Lee, United Kingdom

# 1,752:

9:52 pm PST, Jan 25, Matt Livingston, Georgia
Why does AIG want to brand itself to such a tragedy? This is a time of mourning not a time to go buy insurance. AIG your a very lucrative sponsor, but you should take a very far step back from branding this tragedy. It will poorly reflect upon the company, because you as a company shouldnt under any circumstances try to profit from these brave men who died in Munich. STAY AWAY FROM THE BUSBY BABES AIG!!! I WILL CANCEL MY POLICY WITH YOU IF YOU DO

# 1,751:

7:36 pm PST, Jan 25, Alexander Howard, United Kingdom
pass this petition and start to put an end to everything in football being money orientated.

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