East Midlands Airport boycott threat over Derby County advert - BBC News
Exactly how pathetic is this?
It also serves to illustrate one of the problems with EMA - it's name! Most airports have one city name (in the case of LBA - two cities!). EMA has the name of a place that you can't find on a map - since as a city or administrative area it doesn't exist, which makes it quite difficult for a foreign visitor to make a choice to fly to it. Worse, if a foreign visitor identifies anything about the region it's Robin Hood - but another airport, nowhere near where people
believe he came from thought of it first.
Then when the airport tried, with some commercial advertising money, to identify with a city in the region a bunch of dunderheads makes a noise about it because it's not their footie team!
If it were up to me I'd change the airport to "Derby / Nottingham" of "Nottingham / Derby" and face the inevitable consequences from Leicester City fans!