Non-League Oxford City & University

[holdsteady]

It does look like a plain white t shirt where someone leant against a freshly painted blue fence but that might have been the idea.

 

[LowerSouth]

Given the moral standards that people want us to be held to for sponsorship, no university, no gambling, someone hilariously suggested Astra Zeneca above but that's big pharma and they make gambling companies look like trappist monks, its going to have to be Ethical Coconuts.

Could be wrong , but didn’t Astra Zeneca provide the Covid 19 vaccine for free to poorer countries?

 

[holdsteady]

The trappist monks that produce strong Belgian beers and Buckfast and fuel alcoholism?! No trappist monks here thank you!

Everyone is at it, I bet even Ethical Coconuts have something shady about them if you look deep enough, plain shirt front it is.

 

[OUFCGav]

What's involved in it then?

To be fair I suppose its unlikely Oxford University would gain much financially from sponsoring a conference north club, no real profile boost or potential financial gain so must be something else involved.

"The long-term collaboration will see the world-renowned university and the oldest football club in Oxford working closely together across three key areas: education, research and facilities.
Projects will include development of a new professional football player certificate programme, facility sharing to support the needs of both organisations, and the continuation of a series of research programmes. "
“Having the World’s most famous university on our kits is a terrific first step but there are so many other ways we are already working together: we have recently started a research project looking at how the club can grow and evolve in a responsible, environmentally sustainable manner, and the new education programme will be a chance for young footballers from around the world to get the best possible education while playing competitive games every week."

 

[holdsteady]

"The long-term collaboration will see the world-renowned university and the oldest football club in Oxford working closely together across three key areas: education, research and facilities.
Projects will include development of a new professional football player certificate programme, facility sharing to support the needs of both organisations, and the continuation of a series of research programmes. "
“Having the World’s most famous university on our kits is a terrific first step but there are so many other ways we are already working together: we have recently started a research project looking at how the club can grow and evolve in a responsible, environmentally sustainable manner, and the new education programme will be a chance for young footballers from around the world to get the best possible education while playing competitive games every week."

That does sound a bit like they are making the first steps into becoming the university's football team? Wouldn't be the first university to have football team in the pyramid, Bath University had one.

Really would be a Town and Gown divide then.

 

[OUFCGav]

Everyone is at it, I bet even Ethical Coconuts have something shady about them if you look deep enough, plain shirt front it is.

"Following PETA Asia’s investigations, over 40,000 stores, including Walmart, have stopped selling Chaokoh coconut milk due to the brands connection to monkey labor"

 

[OUFCGav]

That does sound a bit like they are making the first steps into becoming the university's football team? Wouldn't be the first university to have football team in the pyramid, Bath University had one.

Really would be a Town and Gown divide then.

Well they did win the FA Cup (1874 I think)

 

[holdsteady]

"Following PETA Asia’s investigations, over 40,000 stores, including Walmart, have stopped selling Chaokoh coconut milk due to the brands connection to monkey labor"

Its alright every doing all these investigations but someone needs to think of a championship football club in the South East of England who need a shirt sponsor.

Monkey Labour is a new one one though, they really need to unionise.

 

[Paul Cannell]

Could be wrong , but didn’t Astra Zeneca provide the Covid 19 vaccine for free to poorer countries?

Double EU price, it says right here.

 

[holdsteady]

Well they did win the FA Cup (1874 I think)

When I was a kid I had a book that had all the FA Cup winners, I tippexed out the "versity" replaced it with "ted", did quite a good job so if anyone ever finds that book in the future and its the only record left we did.

 

[Scrongo]

Oxford Brookes University, sponsored the mascot at Wembley, in the Johnstone's paint Trophy.
I'm glad it's City ,& not OUFC.
I don't want us confused from a local team to a university team .
It's bad enough as it is , fans from all over the country thinking we're all students.
I had to tell a Bolton fan politely , after the game at Wembley. When he barged through me & my mates aggressively, shouting bunch of
Student W***ER's..⁸

 

[werthersoriginal]

Its alright every doing all these investigations but someone needs to think of a championship football club in the South East of England who need a shirt sponsor.

Monkey Labour is a new one one though, they really need to unionise.

Monkey labour??

That is a hell of a tie-up with the university, it’s hard not to feel they should have been with us, but I guess we’re after more money. We’ll have to get sponsored by BMW or Richard Branson

 

[holdsteady]

Oxford Brookes University, sponsored the mascot at Wembley, in the Johnstone's paint Trophy.
I'm glad it's City ,& not OUFC.
I don't want us confused from a local team to a university team .
It's bad enough as it is , fans from all over the country thinking we're all students.
I had to tell a Bolton fan politely , after the game at Wembley. When he barged through me & my mates aggressively, shouting bunch of
Student W***ER's..⁸

least he could have call you a mature student w****r.

Always confuses me that northern football fans don't understand how University works, I didn't go but its fairly obvious how it works.

 

[werthersoriginal]

least he could have call you a mature student w****r.

Always confuses me that northern football fans don't understand how University works, I didn't go but its fairly obvious how it works.

There’s even a university of Bolton I think, it’s not as if there aren’t lots of universities in the north

 

[holdsteady]

There’s even a university of Bolton I think, it’s not as if there aren’t lots of universities in the north

I suppose its one better than when you tell people you are from Oxford and they just reply with "The Dictionary?", never really know what to say to that one.

 

[m]

Happens a lot.

University of Northampton, the University of Coventry off the top of my head have sponsored shirts.

Ha!

You don't fool me!

There's no way Northampton or Coventry have universities!

 

[Scrongo]

least he could have call you a mature student w****r.

Always confuses me that northern football fans don't understand how University works, I didn't go but its fairly obvious how it works.

Yes it's hard trying to explain to them ,
Town Vs Gown. Especially when you tell them about the battle of Swindlestock Tavern. They don't believe you..

 

[LowerSouth]

Double EU price, it says right here.

South Africa was not classed as a “Poor or undeveloped country “.
A bit more info here, which also mentions the not for profit element.

A string of revelations about vaccine prices has focused attention on a practice considered normal in the drug industry but often frowned on elsewhere: charging different prices to different customers for the same product.

South Africa’s government found itself on the defensive this week after a senior health official revealed that 1.5 million doses of the Oxford and AstraZeneca vaccine just purchased for use among health workers would cost $5.25 (£3.84; €4.32) a dose, more than twice what the European Union is paying at $2.15.

The EU figure is known because Belgium’s budget secretary inadvertently revealed the EU’s negotiated prices for every major vaccine on Twitter last month.1 The EU had undertaken to keep the prices confidential in return for discounts.

South Africa’s deputy director general of health, Anban Pillay, said his government had been told that $5.25 was the set price for a country classified by the World Bank as upper-middle income. “The explanation we were given for why other high-income countries have a lower price is that they have invested in the [research and development], hence the discount,” he added.

That principle has also been applied to the biggest players. The EU financially supported the development of the BioNTech and Pfizer vaccine and has obtained a lower price per dose ($14.70 than the US ($19.50). The Moderna vaccine’s development was subsidised by the US government, and it will cost the US about $15 a dose, while the EU is paying $18.

The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is much cheaper, although neither the UK nor the US can match the EU’s $2.15 deal: they are expecting to pay about $3 and $4, respectively, per dose.

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine, expected to announce phase III results imminently, is also much cheaper, costing the EU $8.50, with each dose going twice as far as the other brands, since it is a single shot vaccine.

AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson have committed to not making a profit from the pandemic, while Moderna and Pfizer did not. AstraZeneca reserved the right, however, to declare the pandemic phase over and take profits from later vaccine sales.

 

[holdsteady]

Could be wrong , but didn’t Astra Zeneca provide the Covid 19 vaccine for free to poorer countries?

Ethical coconuts are dirty, no way are Astra Zeneca clean. Free the Monkeys!

 

[Northstandboy]

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It isn't mate, but with respect to the University of Northampton, Oxford University sponsoring a team does seem like a huge catch/bigger deal!

Edit: I've just realised you meant Oxford Uni specifically, sorry NSB!

Yes, sorry, worked for them, so they are THE University to me