Some Leigh centurions fans, on Southport beach:

It's very naive to say 'sponsors' only do it bevause they are passionate about RL!

See some of ours... DW Sports, Dominoes (2 local stores). Stobart nationwide firm. York fitness... All of them will be looking to and probably gaining a profit from their sponsorship (ok maybe not Stobart as such).

Correct J20

But your going to SL and these sponsors know that.

Do either you or Peggy know the difference between a sponsor and an investor?

A sponsor does it for a bit of a reasonably priced advertising, the investor - in sport at any rate - does it out of a personal interest.

Find out what Angels do in the theatre, and imagine a less optomistic version of that, and you have an RL investor. You never get your money back in sport unless it's one of a very small handful of football clubs.

Why I specifically mentioned 'sponsors'!

Though sometimes you will get 'investors' who get profit / exposure one way or another as well as those simply funding a passion. See Stobart, part of the O'Connor group buy out deal etc etc.