The Premier League is a bloody big deal these days, y’know…
So big in fact, they don’t even need a sponsor any more.
To celebrate their new sponsor-less era, the English top flight have made a few changes. For starters, if you’ve seen any Premier League football this weekend, you’ll probably have noticed the fancy new logo that’s been plastered everywhere – which simply shows the head of a lion wearing a crown.
The Premier League have also introduced a brand-spanking new Man of the Match trophy, which looks… well, absolutely shit.
Instead of a bottle of bubbly, footballers that put in a particularly impressive performance in this year’s Premier League will be given their very own yellow brick.
https://twitter.com/ThePLZone/status/764419248928264192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
It didn’t take long for footy fans to pass judgement on the new design.
Some compared it to a bottle of aftershave…
New man of the match trophy looks like a bottle of aftershave in its packaging pic.twitter.com/lKBivlWklv
— Dan (@danjoness_) August 13, 2016
Others saw an animated sponge that lives in a pineapple under the sea…
https://twitter.com/ffsYanited/status/764436328255787008
It was also compared with a highlighter pen…
https://twitter.com/jottimus/status/764431456533942274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/ffsYanited/status/764436328255787008
A ‘Caution – wet floor’ cone…
Loooool @ThePLZone pic.twitter.com/FVpFBX7ISd
— Football HQ (@FootbalIHQ) August 13, 2016
And something you might have made in DT at school…
wtf is that. Looks like something you make in GCSE woodwork.
— David Marriott (@DavidPMarriott) August 13, 2016
We’re not entirely sure the new trophies will be proudly sitting on top of any Premier League footballers’ mantle pieces any time soon, if we’re honest.
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