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13th Aug 2016

Fans instantly take the piss out of new Premier League Man of the Match trophy

Great performance today, here's a yellow brick

Simon Lloyd

The Premier League is a bloody big deal these days, y’know…

So big in fact, they don’t even need a sponsor any more.

To celebrate their new sponsor-less era, the English top flight have made a few changes. For starters, if you’ve seen any Premier League football this weekend, you’ll probably have noticed the fancy new logo that’s been plastered everywhere – which simply shows the head of a lion wearing a crown.

The Premier League have also introduced a brand-spanking new Man of the Match trophy, which looks… well,  absolutely shit.

Instead of a bottle of bubbly, footballers that put in a particularly impressive performance in this year’s Premier League will be given their very own yellow brick.

https://twitter.com/ThePLZone/status/764419248928264192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

It didn’t take long for footy fans to pass judgement on the new design.

Some compared it to a bottle of aftershave…

Others saw an animated sponge that lives in a pineapple under the sea…

https://twitter.com/ffsYanited/status/764436328255787008

It was also compared with a highlighter pen…

https://twitter.com/jottimus/status/764431456533942274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/ffsYanited/status/764436328255787008

A ‘Caution – wet floor’ cone…

And something you might have made in DT at school…

We’re not entirely sure the new trophies will be proudly sitting on top of any Premier League footballers’ mantle pieces any time soon, if we’re honest.

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