New England Shirt @ £90!!!

Just seen this on twitter, a ridiculous amount for a Football shirt- unless this is a day before April fools day joke?

Joey Barton has exploded regarding the cost.

£90!   FFS. (TM Seadog)

It's only 90 quid!

You're NAWT PROPER FANS!

That's abait £30 per game!

English football relies upon the terminally addicted to fund its greed and eventual self inflicted ruination.

I can get a decent snide made by a mate of mine in Thailand for about sick squid, how many do you think I should order?

The craven money grabbing of these people makes me sick, I don't care if some toss box wants to use ninety quid of his not so hard earned on a shirt to stand down the pub in, that's our culture innit?

What I object to is the price of kids shirts, a whole load of them will be bought by people who simply cannot afford it just so the FA Board can have a bigger pile of Beluga with their Bolly.

So, basically Tiddles, you couldn't care less that England shirts are sold for £90 a pop. Now why doesn't that surprise me.
I would love to know your logic why rip off britain is ok where adult apparel is concerned, but not children's clothes that adults also pay for. Are parents some sort of protected species in your brave new world, as opposed to other adults ? I can't see any other logical reason for your comments myself.
Next, you and Nige Farage will be saying that any consumer protection laws should only apply to children's goods, and to hell with protecting adults, but then that's what a right wing english bunch would think... a sort of new Wild West. Disguising your extreme right wing view, as not liking the bolly brigade is frankly preposterous. Cheap make up cannot hide bad skin.
Geddon spotty 

At £90 a pop I anticipate a supply/demand-led price correction in the not-too-distant future.

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

At £90 a pop I anticipate a supply/demand-led price correction in the not-too-distant future.

Within weeks, once the media induced backlash starts - hopefully.

RIP  RRP.
I remember my father guffawing years ago at some of the old resale price maintenance laws and why they were abolished. He always thought the law was endeavouring to find the perfect High street legal licence to lie.
How come Argyle didn't start their early bird season ticket thing at £1000 a season ?

Next it ll be argyle shirts £90 a throw.


Must think england fans are stupid.

Elias wrote:

Next it ll be argyle shirts £90 a throw.


Must think england fans are stupid.

Noolie will buy two and give one away   

It's 90 quid for the pro shirt as it has always been i think. The rep should be yer usual in sports direct etc

Winter Green wrote:

So, basically Tiddles, you couldn't care less that England shirts are sold for £90 a pop. Now why doesn't that surprise me.
I would love to know your logic why rip off britain is ok where adult apparel is concerned, but not children's clothes that adults also pay for. Are parents some sort of protected species in your brave new world, as opposed to other adults ? I can't see any other logical reason for your comments myself.
Next, you and Nige Farage will be saying that any consumer protection laws should only apply to children's goods, and to hell with protecting adults, but then that's what a right wing english bunch would think... a sort of new Wild West. Disguising your extreme right wing view, as not liking the bolly brigade is frankly preposterous. Cheap make up cannot hide bad skin.
Geddon spotty 

God you're dim.

Most of us have gained massive benefits from the operation of a Capitalist(ish) economy, of course I have no objection what price manufacturers ask for their products, that is Capitalism, if you don't think it is value for money don't buy it, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions will generating trade, profits and tax revenues to pay your pension..

I object to staples and necessities being subject to the same regimen but as many of those who can't be arsed to put in a days work can still smoke, drink and watch Sky Sports I guess the system cannot be too repressive.

I believe Cuba has a nice, fair, egalitarian system, not to mention being an excellent venue for those seeking underage sex with kids who don't have enough to eat, perhaps that is what you would prefer us to experience here?

Parents are the only things which keep the world going, if no one were prepared to accept the privations which parenthood brings then there would be no need to worry about the Hubbert Peak or global warming but also no visits from the grand kids to look forward to, they, imho, deserve a break.

are you really saying that if a capitalist society were to disappear then kiddy fiddling would become (more) rife?

most of us may have gained financially from Capitalism, but the whole planet population has been shafted and is up shit creak because of it. think outside the box for a change, the daily express and mail are not the only news outlets

Not a capitalist = Communist. Yawn.

Mapperley, darling wrote:

are you really saying that if a capitalist society were to disappear then kiddy fiddling would become (more) rife?

Where do you boys get this gift for English comprehension?

I would suggest that the drivers "for under age" prostitution and kiddy fiddling are somewhat different but for once would allow that some degree of cross over was arguable, my point though was to accentuate that Capitalism percy is not the harbinger of all things evil.

"but the whole planet population has been shafted and is up shit creak because of it."

This though is one of the dumbest generalisations I have ever been privy to, as well as providing a little mirth through its semi literacy.

Fifty years ago the planet was struggling to feed way less than a third of the people who are now adequately, or in the case of many many millions massively over fed. That is solely because of the ability of a capitalist economy to radically increase the amount of economic activity, if you cannot understand this most basic of concepts then fook off somewhere else to make your lame ass posts.

"Not a capitalist = Communist. Yawn" pretty much covers the scope of the poster but in no way addresses the issue, it is in essence correct, except of course for the yawn which marks the point at which the poster probably fell asleep in basic Economics, interesting though it is that "Communism" gets a capital C whereas "capitalism" doesn't.

There are no Capitalist societies just as there are no Communist ones, albeit that the Commies have got closer historically, the basic facts are though that Capitalism, in any of it's forms, will tend to increase the overall level of economic activity whereas any significant, centralised, state involvement will tend, over a period of time, to reduce it.

The FA charging a few quid for a shirt ain't a heinous crime it is simply a function of a market economy which just about everyone who posts on here will have profited from in some way, especially I suspect the Commie whingers, if they are right they will make big money, if they are wrong they will make less, they are not pitch forking new born babies.

  Just seen your post Iggy. You're dead right.....  Like conversing with an angry simpleton.
Like Hairy, I think I'll leave Tiddles to it.

£90 an England shirt is no argument for free market capitalism.

It doesn't cost anywhere near £90 to make a shirt, transport it to shops and sell it for a reasonable profit. That process has become replaced with one of total greed.

The FA no doubt has a scheme drawn up whereby hardcore England fans have to pay back the monstrous costs of the new Wembley stadium over the next 20 years by paying well over the odds for such schemes as this. It is up to individual supports if they really want to be complicit in the deal.

The only way to make a point is to steadfastly NOT buy it. And £60 for the cheaper 'replica', made of different materials and less features? Deary me.

Boycott it all, I tell thee.

Also ignore Lord Tisdale and please don't engage in sex with minors like I think he was advocating.

As my good friend, the Bishop of Liverpool, once said, 'the attempted con is the presentation of free market capitalism as being a morality-free zone. The rich bastards are out to get you and make themselves even richer by the promotion of a consumerist-led society". (I paraphrase).

Just about sums it up Knecht.  
One minute they want the law of the jungle and then the next go crying to the nanny state when said law turns up on the doorstep. Bankrupt theory, bankrupt culture.
In the meantime, I thoroughly recommend the fifth way. Wake up, free your shackles, and enjoy the day. Leave them to their false god of consumerism and it's attendant never ending fear. Surf's up, kettle's on.

Aren't these shirts made in places that employ comparatively cheap labour? The kind of places where people aren't like us? Surely a UKIP person should be wanting them to be woven by English wool in a mill in Burnley by a fat bloke called Gerald? Just sayin' like.

Seeing grown men in replica shirts always makes me feel a little ashamed of the human race. Full kit wankers.

If you don't want to or cant afford to buy it, then don't !!!!!!!

simple

Dane. wrote:

If you don't want to or cant afford to buy it, then don't !!!!!!!

simple

Would that life were that simple......