TESCO About-turn: Anyone Wearing a GAA Top To Get 50% Discount
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In an amazing turn of events – we believe British multiple TESCO is set to offer fifty per cent discount to GAA members in recognition of the GAA 125 Anniversary.
TESCO, has had to perform the remarkable about turn, following their disgraceful decision to ban young GAA members in Antrim from wearing their club colours during a bag packing session. It is understood senior GAA figures were involved in high level discussions.
The club members form the St Comgall’s club in Antrim were asked to refrain from wearing their club jerseys during the fundraiser, as it allegedly caused offence to local members of the Official Unionist/Conservative party and other bigoted members of the public.
Allegedly the volume of complaints led the duty manager to abandon protocol and ask the club to remove the ‘offensive jerseys.’ The nine-year-old children involved in the bagpack had no option but to comply, such was the offensive nature of their provocative behaviour. In their Solomon-like wisdom, and instead of standing up to the bigots, TESCO initially put profit ahead of any sense of Corporate Social Responsibility. They subsequently banned ANY bag packers from wearing their club shirts. Whether collectors for one organisation can display the shirts of another organisation is unclear.
However, Talking Balls believes that TESCO will perform an unexpected about turn. In recognition of the error of their ways, and in the face of a boycott by hundreds and thousands of GAA fans we believe they are likely to state that in recognition of the GAA’s 125 Anniversary, and in cognisence of La na cGlub, they have made a sensational offer.
We believe that for the entire month of May, TESCO will offer any shopper wearing a GAA top a fifty per cent discount on their shopping bill. A source said: “We got this one badly wrong. We are always talking about our service to the community and our computers for schools and so on. This is our way of giving something back to the people that we have so grossly offended with our narrow-minded attitude.”
To redeem your fifty per cent, all you have to do is wear your GAA shirt with pride in your local TESCO store; fill your shopping trolley and ask to see the manager of the store. Simply tell him/her you are a member of the GAA and you’re here to get your TESCO ANTI-BIGOTRY DISCOUNT.
Sure if it doesn’t work, every little helps and every bigot helps. They’ll get the message.
