Most fans have probably heard all the Wonga jokes a hundred times by now, but as there's no Newcastle match this weekend I thought I would post a collection of some of the Wonga jokes from the last week.
1) In honour of our new sponsors Wonga, a pint at home matches will now cost £2 before kick off, £50 at half-time and £4000 after ninety minutes.
2) Newcastle United are proud to announce that the new Wonga sponsored home shirt is now on sale priced at £39.99 or twelve monthly payments of £179.99.
3) Following the announcement of Wonga as our new sponsors, all NUFC box office purchases will now be subject to a hidden 4063.9% APR surcharge.
4) Alan Pardew has told his players to forget about all the commotion over new sponsors Wonga and go out their on the pitch and give 4,107%.
5) In an uncharacteristic display of openness, Newcastle have revealed that the new Wonga sponsorship deal is worth £6 million a year, although we will have to repay £12 trillion at the end of the contract.
6) Finally, this last one is a fact, not a joke. If you borrowed £100 from Wonga and made no repayments, in less than six years you would owe more than the US national debt (£10 trillion).
Personally, for all the talk about how the Wonga sponsorship deal is bad for the image of football, etc, I think it’s worth pointing put that a week ago very few people would be able to tell you what interest rates Wonga charged. Now though, pretty much everyone knows that Wonga charge over 4,000% APR.
So to summarise, we get a reported £24 million over four years and St James Park restored to its true name (not that it was ever called anything else), and added to this we also have increased public awareness of Wonga’s business practises, thereby allowing borrowers to make a more informed choice as to who they borrow money from in future.
Sounds okay to me.
Footnote: I'll be posting my tips for Sunday's match against the mackems on Thursday.
