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NORWICH City are delighted to announce a historic and substantial deal confirming leading bookmakers Coral as the Club''s official betting partner and new sponsors of the Barclay Stand at Carrow Road. 

Since Carrow Road was built in 1935, the Barclay Stand has been the spiritual home of some of the Club''s noisiest and most passionate supporters over the decades. Now Coral are celebrating the stand''s unique heritage with an exciting multi-year partnership which will see thousands of Barclay Stand season ticket holders benefit from specific offers and all fans and members receive special benefits from Coral, including: - Sign up incentives and new customer deals - Exclusive NCFC Promotional odds every matchday - New in-stadia betting points throughout the ground - Sponsored away days to benefit supporters.In addition as part of the deal, all NCFC sign ups through www.coral.co.uk/otbc will financially benefit your football club and help Manager Alex Neil build and maintain the Canaries'' squad. 

Andre Wisdom, Russell Martin and Steven Whittaker celebrate Coral joining the teamThis is the first time the Barclay Stand has ever been sponsored, with eye-catching Coral branding also set to feature on both the front and the back of the stand by the end of August. The Barclay stand will retain its historic name but will be labelled as the Barclay Stand sponsored by Coral. Inside the stand Coral will continue the theme of celebrating the Barclay''s special place in the Club''s heritage with nostalgic displays in the concourses reflecting on some of the great Norwich City memories and dramas which have panned out on the pitch in front of the stand over the years. City Chief Executive David McNally said the Club was delighted to be teaming up with Coral on this historic and innovative partnership. He commented: "This is a major partnership for the Club as we re-enter the Premier League stage. We''re absolutely delighted to welcome Coral on board as our official betting partner and the first-ever sponsors of the Barclay Stand. "It''s a stand close to the hearts of Norwich fans everywhere, so it was vitally important to us to find a partner who would honour and celebrate the heritage of the Barclay with us in such a positive way, while also offering some exciting benefits for the 6,000-plus loyal members of the Yellow Army who sit there on a match day and of course all our other fans. We encourage all those fans that want to place a bet to do so through the Norwich City Coral website as this benefits the club and, like everything we do, helps us to support our Manager and the squad." Brand Director Matt Prevost of Coral said: "We''re delighted at Coral to be forming this partnership with Norwich City Football Club. It''s fantastic to see the Canaries back in the Premier League with their exciting brand of football and we''re proud to be associated with a club with such rich heritage. "Throughout the season, Coral will be offering Canaries fans some excellent betting offers both online, on mobile, in-shop and through our instadia betting kiosk at Carrow Road. We are especially honoured to be sponsoring the Barclay Stand, as we recognise the special place the stand has in the history of the club and the hearts of Norwich fans." The partnership was negotiated by sports marketing agency BD Sport Rights, who specialise in building creative, content led partnerships between market leading betting brands and rights owners. The stadium betting service will be operated by BD Stadia, the market leaders in betting fan engagement.  Both companies are part of BD Sport Group (www.bdsportgroup.com).

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"The Barclay stand will retain its historic name but will be labelled as the Barclay Stand sponsored by Coral. "

Not a problem, good work.

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The ghost of Michael Theoklitos wrote the following post at 03/08/2015 10:24 AM:

No idea why they have gone and done this when the obvious thing to do was to get them to sponsor a whole new stadium at Broadland Business Park.

So short sighted.

Good point, it could have been the Coral Reef

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[quote user="Vanwink"]The ghost of Michael Theoklitos wrote the following post at 03/08/2015 10:24 AM:

No idea why they have gone and done this when the obvious thing to do was to get them to sponsor a whole new stadium at Broadland Business Park.

So short sighted.

Good point, it could have been the Coral Reef[/quote][Y] Obviously.[:D]

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Gambling is immoral and one of the things ruining this country IMO, every high street has nothing but gambling dens and it is making a mockery of our fundamentally Christian heritage. I am disgusted by this latest sale of a bit of the club''s soul and suspect this is the first in a series of tie-ups which will see the ball boys sponsored by weapons dealers and the match ball sponsored by the local brothel.

Gambling ruins lives and a "community" club should have nothing to do with it.

Shameful, McNally.

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if it means we can afford the wages to entice van dijk and a quality striker then its a good thingalso they are offering 20£ sign up bonus off minimum  fiver deposit for new customers, couple of channon runners at nottingham today well worth a few bob

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Not entirely sure on this one but I guess it''s something that other Prem clubs are investing in. Not sure about having betting points around the ground though of which has mainly been seen as a family club but under McNally we have moved away from that kind of imagine and are slowly moving towards becoming a Premier League run club.

I''m so glad they''ve kept the name of the stand, no problem with that at all and if it all benefits us with additional funds to spend on players/ground improvements then it''s an investment well secured.

Top work again from McNally I''d say.

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The Jarrold and N&P have become part of the furniture – nobody calls the Jarrold the South Stand any more, and the River End and N&P are pretty much interchangeable.However, the club recognises that The Barclay is The Barclay in the eyes of the fans, and has ensured that the ''rebranding'' is as non-invasive as possible. Good business.

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[quote user="Bor Bor Bor"]Gambling is immoral and one of the things ruining this country IMO, every high street has nothing but gambling dens and it is making a mockery of our fundamentally Christian heritage. I am disgusted by this latest sale of a bit of the club''s soul and suspect this is the first in a series of tie-ups which will see the ball boys sponsored by weapons dealers and the match ball sponsored by the local brothel.

Gambling ruins lives and a "community" club should have nothing to do with it.

Shameful, McNally.[/quote]

Not sure if this is a p!ss-take or not (usually hard to tell on here), but I agree with the sentiment entirely. Clearly everything has a price.

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[quote user="Leedscanary"]This thread could be interesting - where''s my popcorn?[/quote]
I think I saw Michael Jackson loitering near it...

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[quote user="jas the barclay king"][quote user="Leedscanary"]This thread could be interesting - where''s my popcorn?[/quote]
I think I saw Michael Jackson loitering near it...
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You''ll have to change your name to "jas the barclay sponsored by coral king"

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While questionably immoral, it''s not as bad as wonga or some other aggressive payday loans company. It''s not like we are changing the stadium name either so we will probably barely notice it unless the contract means their logo has to cover over the yellow and green supporters in attendance...

If it takes this deal to get us a new striker then do be it.

I wonder if their presence will be allowed on FIFA 16 as our ground will be on that?

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[quote user="OnTheBall"][quote user="jas the barclay king"][quote user="Leedscanary"]This thread could be interesting - where''s my popcorn?[/quote]
I think I saw Michael Jackson loitering near it...
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You''ll have to change your name to "jas the barclay sponsored by coral king"[/quote]
if they pay me 1% of every bet taken i''ll change my name to anything!

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