Hull Show How to Run a Proper Football Club
By: Matt | February 13th, 2009Round One to EPL Lawyers
As many of you Offside readers will be aware, we were recently sent some wonderful feedback by the English Premier League’s legal team, that said in so many words: ‘Stop using EPL crests (or any UK crests for that matter) on your website, OR ELSE.’ I’m pretty sure there is a lightning strike and terrifying music playing each time the ‘or else’ bit is read. So anyways, this is what accounts for the crests being replaced by the awkward little colored silhouette men on the main site, and above this post, if you were wondering.
Tigers Show Some Class
So I my good friends, decided that this just wasn’t on, and contacted the Hull City Marketing Department, basically explaining the situation, and requesting that I be able to continue to use the beloved crest on my site.
Lo and behold, the wonderful people at Hull responded almost immediately to my query. I won’t publish the whole letter, but here is the good bit:
“Matt – many thanks for your letter outlining the issues regarding the use of our official club crest.
Please accept this email as permission to use our crest within the context of future newstories, articles and match reports that will appear on your site www.theoffside.com”
They also went on to let me know that while I can gladly use the crest for display, for legal reasons I cannot use it to promote the site in anyway, which is perfectly fine by me. And then came the real kicker: they would like to collaborate with the Offside (the actual club, Hull City AFC would like to work with US) moving forward, by supplying exclusive interviews and features from the Tigers official CITY magazine.
So just to reiterate, 1) Not only do Hull City promptly reply to questions/feedback, 2) They are also more than happy to allow the use of the club crest on the site (outside of the external promotion bit, which I don’t use the crest for anyway), and finally, 3) They would like to work hand in hand with the Offside in the future by supplying us exclusive content to publish on the site.
Thank You Hull City
So fine readers, in closing, the next time someone you’re chatting with starts railing against the cash hungry powers that be in the world of football, just remember, there is one club out there that does what it was formed to do: play football, and look after its most important resource: its supporters.
Hull City AFC ladies and gentlemen.
Category: Team News
Comments
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Hull City: the classiest FC of the UK!
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Hull City AFC are now my favorite club in England.
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Wow!
Hull City, you are now my favorite EPL Team!
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Yeah something tells me you might have a tougher go with United Wayne. Who knows though, maybe they’ll be in a sensical mood.
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FTW HULL!!!
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What an incredibly awesome club. The FA should be embarrased
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I see no reason why the EPl logo and clubs crests would not be considered fair use in this case. Maybe the EFF would help out theoffside fight for the right to use the logos.
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Yup I had no doubt they would react this way. Hull is a down to earth club and they’re always doing great things like this. I <3 Hull
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As a Tigers supporter from the fair city of Hull I would like to thank you for your kind words about our beloved football club.
We are lifting ourselves out of a bad patch after taking the EPL and some of the biggest clubs by the throat and are showing some of the fire from earlier in the season. We should be good to watch!
Thanks again, Mike
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anyway we can send them a mass of thank you emails?
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Fantastic, all praise Hull City!
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I don’t know if anyone else saw it, but EPL Talk did a great story on Hull’s efforts to reach out to the U.S. Wonderful to see such a class act.
http://www.epltalk.com/hull-citys-us-charm-offensive-will-pay-dividends/4211
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That’s pure class, good on them.
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Class.
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Matt, glad the club could help. Please look at the badge though as you have used the old style badge not the new tigers head.
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Great stuff… We can only hope other clubs respond similarly.
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If I hadn’t supported united my whole life, I could easily become a Hull City supporter for their brilliance. I can however say that Hull are now my 2nd favourite team! Let’s hope they can pick up the form they showed at the start of the season, as they deserve it!
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hull > epl. end of…
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Classy!
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Well, I’ve emailed United multiple times now… still waiting to hear…
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Awesome News!
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I’m not a massive follower of the EPL, but I think Hull just became my favourite team by a country mile.
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I’ve always loved Hull, I’m even sporting them in Football Manager.
This just puts the icing on the cake. Congradulations dude. I hope to be reading some great posts from you and the new Hull City content to come with it
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What a class organization. And the fact that they recognize the appeal of the site and are willing to set up interviews (!) and supplying material for the blog just goes to show that they *get* that the fans make the game.
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I’m gonna have to buy a hull city jersey next season. the tigers are my favorite EPL team now.
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