Who Would Think Up Such A Campaign?

[Garaman]

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/mastercard-world-cup-campaign-lionel-messi-neymar-starving-children-backlash-a8380516.html

Shocking.

[douglas9401]

I imagine smug, well fed Twitter addicts after a bottle or two of Chablis.

[Spicerack]

I think Garaman might have been referring to the campaign to feed starving children, not the campaign to stop them.
Who knows any more?

[-Talbot-]

I can't see the problem

[Garaman]

Goalkeeper makes a save, children go hungry.

[-Talbot-]

Good grief

[Spicerack]

They should have had a sandwich every time England missed a penalty.

[scorpiojo]

:)

[woofgang]

Well I see the problem and I think it stinks.

[-Talbot-]

There wouldn't have been a problem if Barclycard gave naff all to starving kids.


Hey but don't let stop you lovely people knocking it.

[scooping]

Disgusting.

[-Talbot-]

Mastercard (the crate is nearly empty)

[woofgang]

do you not get it? They have money they could give to help these kids and they are making it contingent on some stupid game?

[kvalidir]

It's abhorrent. It's trivialising the lives and wellbeing of starving children and turning it into a game for rich westerners. What could possibly be worse? Why not just say we've got together with Messi and we're going to donate x amount to children who are starving.

[-Talbot-]

You don't get it.


If they did nothing you would not be able to vent your 'disgust' 'anger'vif they had done nothing and you wouldn't have been any the wiser or cared less.

[-Talbot-]

Don't worry MasterCard have seen the error of their ways and have decided to up the dividend to shareholders...Result!


Now who next?

[kvalidir]

Yes I totally get what you're saying, any one of thousands of companies could choose to donate to these children and don't- the difference is they don't try to use it as a marketing campaign for their own benefit. Mastercard can frank *** off.

[woofgang]

yes you are right...its the trivialising of genuine need that I find abhorrent...dangling the prospect of a donation in front of the charities involved.....I honestly would have expected better of the footballers involved....or maybe not......

[Canary42]

.... and I wonder how big a backhander the footballers got for agreeing to this ill-thought-out initiative.

[Old_Geezer]

Might not be in the best of taste but companies promising to do some good if you buy their product, or whatever, is hardly new; and hasn't tended to cause a backlash before. Would folk prefer they didn't help the starving at all ?

[NoMercy]

It was an ill-conceived but well intentioned gesture by Mastercard. I'm sure they'll be itching to redeem themselves and subdue the outraged Twitterati.