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By “more closely resembles”, does that mean it’s actually the same shirt? Or still made of different material etc?

I had a look in the spurs shop the other week and was genuinely baffled by the tiers of pricing on cheap feeling kit

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:04 am

BiggsyMalone wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:57 am

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:39 am

Inclusive to who? I am completely baffled by how this is being seen as a political gesture.

I suppose Jesse Owens raising a fist isn’t political to you either.

Jesse Owens didn't raise a fist did he? Not that a black athlete winning a gold medal in Nazi Germany is really comparable to a corporate multinational doing a bland tweek of a national flag on a football shirt.

Whoever it was, the point is the same

Beradogs wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:14 am It’s like someone is about to serve you horse dung but as you won’t eat it they start off slowly and offer up monkeys testicles. Nike was testing the water and our flag would eventually have become a brand including rainbows and whatever other colour combination we are celebrating this week.

I've already done this joke.

BiggsyMalone wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:38 am

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:04 am

BiggsyMalone wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:57 am
I suppose Jesse Owens raising a fist isn’t political to you either.

Jesse Owens didn't raise a fist did he? Not that a black athlete winning a gold medal in Nazi Germany is really comparable to a corporate multinational doing a bland tweek of a national flag on a football shirt.

Whoever it was, the point is the same

Blimey.

Currywurst and Chips wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:21 am

Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:52 am That’s been the standard price for a while

It’s not though

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football ... 4-32414557

Ok, I'm sorry, they haven't been exactly £124.99 previously.

These England match shirts - kids and adults - have been up at over £100 for the last couple of tournaments. Not saying it's right, just that it's been not right for a while.

Fortunately, alternative retailers are available if you know where to look.

CEB wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:24 am By “more closely resembles”, does that mean it’s actually the same shirt? Or still made of different material etc?

I had a look in the spurs shop the other week and was genuinely baffled by the tiers of pricing on cheap feeling kit

My guess is that the 'match shirts' are more or less replicas of those the players wear, which will be the latest, most expensive, sweat-wicking, aero-dynamic tech.

The 'stadium shirts' will be made from cheaper materials, same as kits from the olden days.

So the t0sspots at the FA won't light up the Wembley Arch in the blue and white of a national ally following a barbaric terrorist atrocity but they are happy to approve the "disruption of history" by d!cking around with the colours of the English national flag.

Next it'll be the three lions badge to get the "disrupted history" treatment... The kit launch's press release in 2028 could read as:

"Our inclusive designers at Nike have replaced each lion with a kooky modern take for England's upcoming World Cup campaign. It's goodbye to the king of the jungle and hello to a tropey turquoise octopus to appease the modern-day anti-semitic majority, plus a KGB-aligned black bear as a cheeky nod to 1966's legendary Russian lineseman. Completing the diverse threesome on England's new badge is a brown slug - to signify the spineless t0sspots at the FA who approve this crud in the first place".

CEB - as the board's resident artist would you mind mocking up that new badge in your lunch hour? Cheers.

I didn't know what a stadium kit was, so Googled it. Apparently it helps you stay cool. Would have thought the players would have preferred that version

£125.

Dunners wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:27 pm£125.

Just for the top. I'd want shorts, socks and shinnies for that.

Just wondering how the Scott’s Welsh or Irish fans would feel if a sports company buggered about with emblems on there shirts. Like someone has already said if it was the French they would riot.

The only acceptable way to adapt an England flag

Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:44 am

BiggsyMalone wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:38 am

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:04 am

Jesse Owens didn't raise a fist did he? Not that a black athlete winning a gold medal in Nazi Germany is really comparable to a corporate multinational doing a bland tweek of a national flag on a football shirt.

Whoever it was, the point is the same

Blimey.

Obviously, the concept of social justice statements is new to you

BiggsyMalone wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:43 pm

Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:44 am

BiggsyMalone wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:38 am
Whoever it was, the point is the same

Blimey.

Obviously, the concept of social justice statements is new to you

and obviously the concept of Tommie Smith (and the other one) is new to you.

Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:48 pm

BiggsyMalone wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:43 pm

Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:44 am

Blimey.

Obviously, the concept of social justice statements is new to you

and obviously the concept of Tommie Smith (and the other one) is new to you.

I got the person wrong. The point remains the same.

Nike is American, can't wait to see what they do to the stars and stripes

Mick McQuaid wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:15 am Did anyone get upset at this at the time?

As a practising atheist I was raging?

Can't believe we're looking back at 2012 as a golden age of being keeping things in perspective, but I really don't remember being people losing their minds over this effort.

I bet whoever Nike commissioned for the new cross design is feeling proper stressed right now.

Wait a minute...

In the long list of things that I don't give a sh-it about, this whole debate is right up there!

On a par with pics, or non pics, of William's missus.

Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:13 pm

Dunners wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:27 pm£125.

Just for the top. I'd want shorts, socks and shinnies for that.

I’d want a game on the wing as well
The FA showing how in touch with reality they are again

Why do we let the septics have control of our kit and design anyway? Oh, it must be the money. FA is about right for our soccer leaders in terms of their understanding of what the hoolies want emblazoned on their replicas when slinging chairs around pre match.

BoniO wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:26 pm In the long list of things that I don't give a sh-it about, this whole debate is right up there!

On a par with pics, or non pics, of William's missus.

Would some tasteful noody pics of Kate spark your interest?

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:28 pm

BoniO wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:26 pm In the long list of things that I don't give a sh-it about, this whole debate is right up there!

On a par with pics, or non pics, of William's missus.

Would some tasteful noody pics of Kate spark your interest?

Send a link and I’ll bid.

Omygawd wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:33 pm

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:28 pm

BoniO wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:26 pm In the long list of things that I don't give a sh-it about, this whole debate is right up there!

On a par with pics, or non pics, of William's missus.

Would some tasteful noody pics of Kate spark your interest?

Send a link and I’ll bid.

Link sent