Stifler

Fake news, Footyheadlines even debunked it today. There are no rules to prevent people buying the shirts, and there is no reasonable and possibly lawful way you can check each shirt. That is also besides the fact that fakes are getting harder and harder to spot.

I and someone else touched on it yesterday. Adidas would need to sell 562,000 shirts of ours to break even on a £40m per year contract. When we were owned by Ashley we were still selling nearly 500,000 shirts per year. That is without all the other stuff we did well, and the stuff that we missed out on selling because Ashley never put it on sale. We now have ambitious owners, a team who are building well, and we are moving away from the tacky Wonga/Fun88 sponsors. It goes without saying that our merchandise is becoming more sought after, both here in Tyneside, the North East, and even internationally. Not many clubs can say that.

I actually liked that, but it suffered from the pattern sheet problem, where they make a sheet of pattern, then cut out from that sheet all the different sized tops, so you get shirts where the pattern isn’t located in the exact same place. It does my fucking head in to be honest, especially when the promo pictures come out, and they have got ones where the pattern looks good, then you go to buy it and the pattern is under the arm pits, and behind the sponsor etc.

Do Liverpool even need him, or is this a ‘Buy him so no one else can’ type of situation?

Nah, it was a rumoured 4th shirt for last season.

We’ll end up being spoon fed a shit load of Adidas stuff. I’ve just done a rough calculation based on price of our football shirts (£80), estimated production costs (£9), and estimated fee Adidas are paying (40m). Adidas need to sell 563,381 shirts per year just to break even.

You know what you can’t find anymore, a fucking schooner for Brown ale.

Would mean a throw in would be like having a freekick. An absolutely fucking stupid idea.

Anyone know if it’s pay on the day tomorrow? Wor lass is going to her sisters for the weekend, if I finish early enough I might go up.

Fucking clueless. They all know that there is rules preventing RB from doing what they have at other clubs and branding them. A few of them are even admitting that they wanted them to takeover them, I’m presuming in that case being rebranded as RB Sunderland, and RB arena etc. There has been no talk of RB investing in Sunderland outside of their own minds. They were actually linked with Southampton a few years back.

The FA changed the rules. You can’t change a clubs name, traditional home colours, and club badge without approval from the majority of fans.

It was only a matter of time before they bought into English football.

They are still a massive step up from traditional shit beers everyone drank. I do think generally their specials are best, but they do a really good AF version.

Not really. Business people like him can get very low interest rates. Man Utd as a brand will likely keep growing, new TV/streaming rights in the next few years, a new stadium etc. He’ll easily make his money back and more.

Be more like the Riverside wouldn’t it? Must be fucking unbearable to be a Panathinaikos, or AEK fan today.

He won’t have though. He will have loaned it, billionaires don’t spend their own money. He would have got it via Ineos somehow.

I think the shirt is reviewed on the 1st, but doesn’t go on sale until the 7th. No one knows about the other merchandise.

I’d be honest, I wouldn’t go for Rafa now. I love him for what he did for us, and I firmly believe he was the one who got Staveley interested in us. However since he left us, he hasn’t really done very well elsewhere. The China job went badly, the Everton one had disaster all over it, and he somehow managed to get sacked by Celta Vigo when he was leading them to safety and that was his only remit. He hasn’t set the world alight since, and it’s 5 years since he was here.

DCMK wants to change our club badge lads, get him!

A word of warning, next years Arsenal home shirt is £80, long sleeved version is £85.

It’s Beavertown who brew inside their stadium. When I went for the NFL it was Neck Oil, and another that I couldn’t remember which they had. They usually do a special, but it’s not a Spurs exclusive.

It’s one of the questions mate. ’Are you pooping?’

Aye, it’s not the best, but it’s a step up from Carling/Fosters that people drank exclusively 10 years ago or so. Some of the Beavertowns are fucking ace. They did a limited edition one that me and my lass loved, but I quite like their alcoholic free one.

I said this a few months back. If you sign up to YouGov, they are offering a £50 voucher, which includes Adidas as an option. It takes some time to build up points, and maybe too late to start now for this seasons stuff, but maybe worth it for future years. I do the polls when I’m on the toilet.

So in the Adidas section of the website, all the pictures are of the 1996 grandad collar kit, and there is a pin badge of that kit in the accessories section. So either they are remaking that kit, or they have fluffed us all with fake leaks and we’ll be getting something similar.