Campaign for Bobby Moore Fund on West Ham shirt

As you will have seen from the previous post, I mentioned how West Ham United did not have a shirt sponsor at the moment due to the demise of XL. One idea as previously mentioned was for the club to maybe follow the likes of Barcelona & more recently Aston Villa & adopt a charity. With this being the 50th anniversary of Bobby Moore's debut for the club and the recent retiring of the famous number 6 shirt it would be the perfect time for West Ham to add the Bobby Moore Fund to the shirt, at least for the rest of this season allowing the club plenty of time to negotiate a lucrative deal for next year. The idea was to maybe give a small percentage from each shirt to the fund. I started a discussion thread on Saturday after the match on facebook, by Sunday somebody posted this idea which apparently Mike Parry on Talk Sport Radio had also voiced, I posted my blog on Sunday night, emailed the club and The Bobby Moore Fund. On Monday I received an email from the fund who had been in touch with the club that day, that night I posted my first thread on west ham online & that is when the ball really got rolling. http://www.westhamonline.net/article.php?2954233 In just over 48 hours there are now 250 replys and the item is currently sitting on the home page, Aaron Hinton posted the mock shirt as seen above, groups have been started on facebook ( West Ham to sponsor the Bobby Moore Fund) and now we have a petition http://www.petitiononline.com/RFCMOORE/petition.html currently sitting at just under 2,500 signatures! Today the Evening Standard have now picked up on the story as have the Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1057131/ even non West Ham fans seem to be getting behind this campaign, in light of some of the negative press the club has received lately this could be a masterstroke if they were to do it, as well as no doubt being their best selling shirt ever! I really hope for once the powers that be listen to the fans for a change, please sign the petition..

Let's make this happen!