
Huge chart-topping music star reveals desire to buy naming rights to iconic Scottish football stadium
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SINGER Amy Macdonald has suggested she would like to buy the naming rights for a Scots football stadium -- with Partick Thistle's Firhill home at the top of her list.
The "This is The Life" singer said she was interested in finding out how much it would cost to have her name attached to a football ground.
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Amy Macdonald has revealed she is looking to buy naming rights for a football stadium
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The singer is eyeing up Partick Thistle's Firhill Stadium, currently sponsored by car buying platform Wyre
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Macdonald's husband Richard Foster played for Thistle for two years
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She told BBC Radio Scotland's Off the Ball that Firhill would be her preference because it is closest to her home in Glasgow and because her husband, ex-footballer Richard Foster, had enjoyed a successful spell there as a player from 2020 to 2022.
Macdonald, 37, said: "I actually want to find out how much the stadiums are charging because I think it would be funny.
"Just because then you could make something called the Amy Macdonald Stadium.
"It's like, Ed Sheeran sponsors Ipswich Town.
"Their shirt front, they've always got his albums on it."
Asked what stadium she would like her name above, she replied: "I think it would probably be Thistle to be fair.
"It's close by and Richard had a great time there and he actually still goes and watches them quite regularly.
"It's probably the nearest stadium."
Responding to the suggestion the ground could be called "The Amy Macdonald Firhill Stadium", she replied: "It's got a ring to it."
Macdonald may have to wait for her number one choice as Partick Thistle's home is already sponsored by car purchasing platform Wyre.
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The famous ground in the Maryhill area of Glasgow is currently known as the Wyre Stadium at Firhill, as part of a three year deal signed in 2023.
However, if the singer-songwriter was to pursue her interest in sponsoring a football club, she would be joining a long line of musicians to show their support for the beautiful game.
In Scotland, Wet Wet Wet famously sponsored the shirts of their hometown club, Clydebank FC, in 1993.
In 2010, big hearted Dundee band The View became sponsors of their old football team, Dryburgh Athletic Under 11s, after it emerged the kids couldn't afford to buy new strips.
The band all grew up on the Dryburgh estate and singer Kyle Falconer and lead guitarist Pete Reilly both played for the under-11 side as children.
Then in 2018, Scots rockers Mogwai sponsored St Roch's Primary and Deaf School in Glasgow with home and away kits by featuring the band's name as well as the school logo embroidered on the front.
Elsewhere, in 1999, DJ Fatboy Slim invested in his local side Brighton, with his Skint Records label logo emblazoned on the shirts, and in 2017 Jake Bugg signed a 10-month shirt sponsorship deal with his beloved Notts County.
In 2018, The Libertines linked up with Margate FC to launch a new kit featuring the band's logo and in 2021, Ed Sheeran showed his support for Ipswich Town with a sponsorship deal that will run to the end of the current 2024-25 season.
Macdonald, from Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow, has just released her first single since 2021, "Is This What You've Been Waiting For".
Last week she launched her new album and a European tour with a pop-up gig in Glasgow's Princes Square shopping centre.
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