Notice anything unusual in the image? That's the Barcelona team posing for a group photo in 2006. Back then and actually for decades till this very day, football teams usually had/have sponsors, you know just basic marketing to get their name known and seen by millions. Even my old football clubs who every weekend amassed an impressive audience of 21 people had sponsors, but Barcelona was different.

Way back in 1899 at the club's foundation, they decided that it was not coherent with the club and culture of Catalan football and they basically never thought about it ever since. As a matter of fact the fans demanded it to remain that way. It was something that apart from the football and geography of Barcelona made them unique. No other club had a sleek clean shirt with just the club logo and sports brand. Most had hideous logos and names often from companies or institutions that would make you puke.

But fast forward to 2006, something changed. The greedy little claws from Barcelona's new era management decided they wanted a piece of that multi million Euro a year pie and thought of ways to sell it to the public.

This next part here is pure speculation as I was of course not personally in the boardroom meeting nor was I eavesdropping on them via Whatsapp bugs, it is purely an educated guess but basically these vermin concluded:

"Hey, let's break the ice by first having something more noble or neutral, you know like strive for world peace and having a well known sign like a peace dove displayed on the shirt, or end world hunger and have some well known charity name on the shirts. We'll even do a reverse sponsorship thingy where we pay the charity to have its name on our shirts, who could oppose that right? If they do we'll just call them war mongers or selfish greedy scum even though that's what we of course are."

And just like that, an era had ended.

Anyone with an IQ higher than 10 could see the writing on the wall and already knew what was next. Yes, they still have some programs and deals with Unicef, but it's no longer the club's mains shirt sponsor because it was now time to complete the plan by raking in that blood soaked terrorist money. I have to admit, I knew, we all knew it wouldn't be long before they made this switch and we suddenly had the opposite of "Unicef" on the shirts, but this surprised even me.

I mean, the only bigger contradicting sponsor would be if they went from "Unicef" on the shirts straight to "Nestle" and had the Barca management come out with a cool new club slogan: "Yes we support the end of global hunger, but we didn't say anything about water."

They moved on since then to other sponsors, some equally controversial, others just meh but that's not really the point now is it? The point is in 2006 a century old tradition died, and it did so under the guise of doing the right thing. Absolute low life filth using poverty and child hunger for their own agenda.