Sex shop’s sponsorship of cricket team is a bit of a sticky wicket

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A cricket club in the U.K. has been told it’s just bloody inappropriate to accept a sponsorship from a sex-shop chain called Nice ’n’ Naughty, reports the BBC. The team is having to give back the money and ditch their new uniforms, under pressure from its league. A team official complains: “Obviously, we knew that Nice ’n’ Naughty is not to everybody’s taste, but we didn’t realize it would cause this much of a problem.

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