Roger Bennett on the US and Footy...

[mezzrow]

a recent post by @MarcelsGoat lends lie to this statement

How so? It amuses me that the prem is a redoubt of capitalism red in tooth and claw while the MLB/NFL/NBA/NHL are all socialist cartels to some degree or another. $ from my Cubs gear goes into the pocket of each and every MLB club. Does not my Everton clobber line the pockets of EFC alone?

 

[zzr45]

How so? It amuses me that the prem is a redoubt of capitalism red in tooth and claw while the MLB/NFL/NBA/NHL are all socialist cartels to some degree or another. $ from my Cubs gear goes into the pocket of each and every MLB club. Does not my Everton clobber line the pockets of EFC alone?

Thanks to commercial deals brokered by Elstone, it doesn’t even line ours.

 

[deipnosophist]

How so? It amuses me that the prem is a redoubt of capitalism red in tooth and claw while the MLB/NFL/NBA/NHL are all socialist cartels to some degree or another. $ from my Cubs gear goes into the pocket of each and every MLB club. Does not my Everton clobber line the pockets of EFC alone?

according to the article submitted by @MarcelsGoat , kit suppliers get around 90% of shirt sale revenue

 

[Walken]

according to the article submitted by @MarcelsGoat , kit suppliers get around 90% of shirt sale revenue

I think elstone negotiated it up to 95% in our case

 

[deipnosophist]

I think elstone negotiated it up to 95% in our case

another case of 'Everton, that'

 

[SerenityNigh]

according to the article submitted by @MarcelsGoat , kit suppliers get around 90% of shirt sale revenue

In exchange for shirt rights? I'd take £75MM/$130MM a year

http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/14/news/companies/adidas-nike-manchester-united/index.html

 

[SerenityNigh]

In today's Jeff Bezos Post:

Roger Bennett, center, at Camp Kingswood in Bridgton, Maine, in July 1990. (Courtesy of Roger Bennett)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...to-stay/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c290333c222d

So should I listen to the Fiasco podcast or not?

Also, pictures of him with hair are very unsettling.

 

[deipnosophist]

In exchange for shirt rights? I'd take £75MM/$130MM a year

http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/14/news/companies/adidas-nike-manchester-united/index.html

so would I.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Can't deal with anyone that thinks Eddie Hitler is a style icon

 

[Connor]

So should I listen to the Fiasco podcast or not?

Also, pictures of him with hair are very unsettling.

Fiasco stuff is good. Worth a listen.