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Message: [QUOTE="Coxy, post: 2511394, member: 1764"] Which again misses the point on the importance of the corporate dollar these days and the bad publicity being associated with club scandals can bring sponsors. Yes, large part of brand impact is due to media coverage of said incidents, but that's inevitable. Now especially when there's memes galore that go viral, the last thing a sponsor wants is their name attached to what becomes a running joke. The whole "won't somebody please think of the children" line is a bit silly, always has been. The impact on them would be very minor, but the impact on their parents is more the key. The fighting situation a great example. Do kids see fights on the field and then go out and do it? Most likely no. But when parents see players fighting and there's no punishment at all, what's their thought process? "I don't want my son playing that game, getting punched and nobody do anything about it, so he's playing soccer!". Or "Teams go away on end of season trips and drug and rape women? I don't want my child in that kind of degrading culture". It's all well and good to say that the parent's response should be "Now little Johnny, that's wrong, and I want you to promise me you'll never do that!". But that's denying just how influential teammates and peers can be. [/QUOTE]

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