Before we get into the nub of the issue, some context.
Jon Lansdown, along with CEO Richard Gould, Ashton Gate managing director Mark Kelly, CFO Gavin Marshall, director of communications Lisa Knights and various other high-ranking Bristol Sport employees, was in the Heineken Lounge at Ashton Gate on Wednesday to announce the company’s new partnership with Bristol-based logistics company Huboo.
For the first time, the shirts of Bristol City men and women, Bristol Bears men and women and Bristol Flyers will bear the same sponsor and, crucially, this was a local and modern company offering a departure from the often divisive and uncomfortable, given expected government legislation, relationships with the gambling industry.
