We all know that bad spelling can affect a customer’s opinion on your attention to detail, but sometimes it can have an even more painful effect. Today Chelsea FC not only embarrassed themselves by letting a 3-0 lead against Manchester United slip through their fingers, but also rather than advertise their own Chelsea Football Club merchandise on the boards, they instead misspelled their own club name and pointed budding fans to the cybersquatted site chelsefc.com (registered 2004)

It seems that the registrant of chelsefc.com has now blanked the page, but it was allegedly selling quit smoking products and advertising a Leicester city fansite.

Check everything at the design phase before signing the release, check it twice, thrice even! Sleep on it and check it again with fresh eyes! Ask someone else to check it. Once you have signed off any design, it’s done and you have nobody to blame but yourself.

Another thanks to Yahoo! (http://uk NULL.eurosport NULL.yahoo NULL.com/06022012/58/premier-league-chelsea-fc-spell-own-name-wrong NULL.html) for this one and the image.