Giving away shirts ....

[chrismpw]

Remember my glory-hunting brother's birthday trip on the Old Trafford tour back in the mid 90s when they tried to tell us that United paid Umbro more for a players shirt than we paid for a replica. Ho ho ho.

I had assumed actually that manufacturers supplied kit etc free of charge due to the enormous amount of advertising they get. Are you saying clubs pay? Wow.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

I had assumed actually that manufacturers supplied kit etc free of charge due to the enormous amount of advertising they get. Are you saying clubs pay? Wow.

No, clubs most definitely do not pay. If United were, at the time, really paying Umbro 70 quid a time for the players' shirts then their commercial department must have been an absolute shambles. I was 12 at the time and even then I thought he was talking nonsense.

 

[chrismpw]

No, clubs most definitely do not pay. If United were, at the time, really paying Umbro 70 quid a time for the players' shirts then their commercial department must have been an absolute shambles. I was 12 at the time and even then I thought he was talking nonsense.

I remember my Maltese English teacher saying, in the early 80s, that the big clubs didn't even wash kits and threw them away after a match which was so wasteful. Not sure many of us believed him.

I remember as an impoverished 14 year old considering skip raiding though!

 

[andy4efc]

Good on him for telling them to then.

You also saw the players who didn't play doing a massive work out once everyone had gone too.
Mina was running lengths of the pitch as were the others.

Is right.

Standard practice for the subs, usually those who only got 10-15mins of the game do it too. Called a blow out. Players hate it, amount of moody players I'd seen complaining about it while working at Burnley and Blackburn.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

I remember my Maltese English teacher saying, in the early 80s, that the big clubs didn't even wash kits and threw them away after a match which was so wasteful. Not sure many of us believed him.

I remember as an impoverished 14 year old considering skip raiding though!

mates Dad used to fix the washing machines at Goodison in 70's & 80's, they weren't single use shirts.

 

[Frang]

Giving shirts away at 50 quid a pop?

So THIS is where the arteta money went.

Will nobody think of the kit man?

doing him out of a job... nowt to wash these days

 

[WA Toffee]

Marco making players give the shirts away at the end, see the face on richy,
Was like “hey boss it pishing it down”

What you didn’t see is that he also told the fans to wash them and bring them back to Goodison by 3:00 on Saturday

 

[Brisan123]

What you didn’t see is that he also told the fans to wash them and bring them back to Goodison by 3:00 on Saturday

We are playing sunday.
Goodison will be locked up on saturday lol

 

[KaiserEFC]

Just seen a video of that Jason Cundy on the abomination that is talksport slating us for doing this. What a knobhead.

 

[Khalekan]

I love the recent increase in fan/community engagement.

The sirens, the frequent hospital visits, the shirt giveaway last night and even those flags. All boss.

Now if they could start scoring a few goals in the league the fans would be even happier and more engaged

 

[marsh]

Just seen a video of that Jason Cundy on the abomination that is talksport slating us for doing this. What a knobhead.

What was he saying?

 

[Baines' left foot]

Now if they could start scoring a few goals in the league the fans would be even happier and more engaged

I couldn’t care less as long as those flags are being waved.

 

[KaiserEFC]

What was he saying?

Basically that if they were told to do it then it’s not sincere. The other bloke tried arguing “does it matter? If you’re a fan going all the way there you’re surely going to like it?” to which Cundy just raised his voice and kept arguing his point as all the people playing the unpopular view on talksport are told to do.

 

[Khalekan]

Just seen a video of that Jason Cundy on the abomination that is talksport slating us for doing this. What a knobhead.

What was his logic?

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

I love the recent increase in fan/community engagement.

The sirens, the frequent hospital visits, the shirt giveaway last night and even those flags. All boss.

I just wish the crowd would shut up when the sirens start.