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Apple to Sign England's Raheem Sterling as Global Ambassador
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Not a Liverpool fan. And yes i do believe Apple signed him without research.
Anyone who actually researched Sterling would think twice about making him a brand ambassador.
Bryant, Serena, Curry make sense. Sterling does not. There are far more effective and likeable characters in Football.
Arrested twice for assaulting women. Photographed using a shisha pipe and on another occasion using nitrous oxide. He left Liverpool in very poor fashion, disrespecting the club, bad mouthing a former player and acting like a spoilt brat. Are those the values Apple want to be known by?
Well, ok maybe i could've said it better, but those writers from The IT Crowd *are* pretty good.
If you have to ask that question of your "Brand Ambassador" you have already failed... But beyond that, he left LFC like a jerk, treated them how none of us would like our own stars to treat our teams, and frankly just isn't very good to justify inclusion alongside those other names in the article. He rarely makes the starting squad and when he does he is usually subbed off, why should he be chosen above Harry Kane, for instance? And this is coming from an Arsenal fan, mind you...
Americans just don't understand football.
We understand boring.
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It's not an assumption, it's a conclusion.
Soccer is to sports what Marcel Proust is to exciting fiction.
Proust watching a soccer match.
I went to school with him.
He was an ok player. Our P.E teacher saw his potential and got him up the ladder to where he is today.
And I'm here, a computer science student lol
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Straight up, he was in my year at school.
There were 8 classes in our year; 4 of them were mixed up, and the other 4 too. He was in the other half of the year. Not in my lessons or anything, but he was in my year!
Don't have pics, because I wasn't his ''friend'' or classmate per se.
Since when has Apple sponsored athletes? This is news to me.
I even watch tennis religiously (hence my username) and I've never seen Serena say, do, or wear anything Apple related.
I even watch tennis religiously (hence my username) and I've never seen Serena say, do, or wear anything Apple related.
You wrote your comment like you were sure he was guilty of assault. That's why I asked you that question. Why should Apple care about his move to Manchester? As a gooner you should be more worried about Wenger being your manager.
When Apple bought Beats i predicted on here that they will sell it within five years at half the price they paid for it and I still believe this.
How about they give 2500 macrumours members £100 a year to serve as brand ambassadors? we already do that job 99% of the time ...
Exactly what I was thinking. A very poor ambassador indeed and very bad role model! This will not be good for Apple's image, quite the reverse, what the hell are they thinking......
News to me too.
I know not everybody is squeaky clean these days (tennis included) but they could have chosen better I think.
Serena Williams Is a good choice..not sure who I would have gone for.
Maybe Kei Nishikori (in Japan at least) would have been a good choice.
But does Stirling have international appeal? (Honest question..) as stated by some of the Americans here they don't care too much about the world's most universally popular sport.
And from what I gather he is not particularly popular in England (or the UK as a whole.)
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I love futbol (#1) but it will always be behind mlb, nba and nfl in the US. Even w the population movement and increasing of minority which tend to play and watch soccer.