Tuesday, Jun 24, 2014
Dubai: What do the world’s most powerful man and an England centre-back have in common? They are the same person, according to one unnamed souvenir company.
Barack Obama and England’s Chris Smalling have been confused on a set of England World Cup mugs.
The result is hilarious — an image of the most recognisable face on the planet stuck on the side of a mug among the rest of the Three Lions’ Brazil 2014 squad.
The mistake has made it impossible to sell the 2,000 mugs featuring the faces of the England team, who are already out of the competition.
As a result, the mugs have now been handed to a wholesale company to try and get rid of them, the UK’s Independent newspaper reports.
Karl Baxter, MD for Wholesale Clearance, told the Independent: “The Dorset company in question was given the seemingly easy job of sourcing royalty-free pictures of each England squad player to use on the England mugs — along with other accompanying items such as England coasters, England mouse mats etc.
“They passed this onto their young, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed new apprentice. The designs were proofed and signed off by their boss.
“They immediately contacted us and 2,000 of the England items were dispatched to our warehouse. We eagerly unpacked them and, indeed it turned out that the Chris Smalling cup had Barack Obama’s head on instead of Chris’s.”
By Gareth Butler Web News Editor
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