Humour Bypass: Chelsea Bring In Lawyers Over ‘Burger Van’ Poster Mocking Fernando Torres

by Chris | 28th, February 2013

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By Chris Wright

It seems a certain moribund Russian oligarch has well and truly failed to see the (fairly tenuously) funny side of a billboard whacked up outside Stamford Bridge that mocked “Fernando’s” recent inability to bother the onion bag.

The offending message reads: “Fernando, we’ve got an onion bag you can actually find. It’s in the burger van mate. Get your hair net on.”

The poster, as put up opposite The Bridge by attention-whoreish bookmakers Paddy Power (the same people that gave Nicklas Bendtner those £80,000 boxer shorts last summer) has reportedly riled Chelsea’s PR department to the point that they, according to The Daily Mail at least, are now in the process of calling in the lawyers.

Quite what intellectual property rights they’re supposedly claiming to have over the name ‘Fernando’ is another mate entirely.

(Via Mail/Image: Paddy Power)

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3 Responses to “Humour Bypass: Chelsea Bring In Lawyers Over ‘Burger Van’ Poster Mocking Fernando Torres”

1. One Man Went to Mow says:

   February 28, 2013 at 9:29 am

   My guess would be that the club couldn’t care less about the board and haven’t done a thing and what’s actually happened is attention-whoreish bookmakers Paddy Power have paid the Mail to give the board some coverage in their rag otherwise nobody anywhere would have noticed it.

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2. Jarren says:

   March 2, 2013 at 1:28 am

   @One Man Went to Mow: Quite so.

   Any publicity is good publicity.

   Well, except if you run Ratners or Findus.

   But yeah, this does smell of publicity stunt.

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3. Paddy Power Refuse To Give Up On Billboard Mocking Fernando Torres, Return To Stamford Bridge With New Digital Version » Who Ate all the Pies says:

   March 27, 2013 at 12:14 pm

   [...] bookmakers Paddy Power invoked the Chelsea legal department’s wrath by slapping up a billboard outside Stamford Bridge which poked pun at a certain chap by the name of Fernando and his lack of goals by pointing the way [...]

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