The price is the most disgraceful thing about this whole story.
[Football] The new England shirt
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This same thing comes up with EVERY SINGLE England kit launch. Every. Single. Time.
The headline price of £120+ is for the player-spec shirt, that literally NOBODY buys.
The actual replica shirts, that everyone will buy from Sports Direct will be about £65 - like every other football shirt.
£85 for the "Stadium", ie replica version, I understand from the coverage of this on 5Live this morning.This same thing comes up with EVERY SINGLE England kit launch. Every. Single. Time.
The headline price of £120+ is for the player-spec shirt, that literally NOBODY buys.
The actual replica shirts, that everyone will buy from Sports Direct will be about £65 - like every other football shirt.
Apologies for troubling you with my post though. My interest in England football kit launches is near-zero, so this whole pricing thing was new to me, and would have passed me by again if it were not for flag-gate.
jordanseagull
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- Feb 11, 2009
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Edit - ignore! Was also just making the point around it being £85 but responded to you instead accidentally
Fair enough. Not £120 then, but still a lot. I think I heard that the kids ones are £65.
Like you, I'll not be buying one. (even if they were £25, to be fair)
People calling for it to be changed are going to be disappointed, I feel.
It went on sale today, so Nike will already have churned out tens of thousands of them.
And given it's now on sale, if they did change it for future shirts they manufacture, anyone who bought the initial version will be wanting a refund or exchange.
It went on sale today, so Nike will already have churned out tens of thousands of them.
And given it's now on sale, if they did change it for future shirts they manufacture, anyone who bought the initial version will be wanting a refund or exchange.
I'll definitely buy one for both my kids.
For £15 each (including delivery) from DHGate.
Well that's good, because there's absolutely no reason to change it.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Cant decide on Henderson or Maguire on the back, no Dunk option.
Tubby Mondays
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Wasnt it Emily Thornberry that slated that block of flats a few years ago during a tournament for all having St George flags hanging up?
Something like that - something sneering about white vans / flags, I think.
This?:
Emily Thornberry resigns from shadow cabinet over tweeted picture of St George flags
The shadow attorney general has resigned after tweeting a photo of a house in Strood displaying three England flags.
www.newstatesman.com
Just how THICK, or lacking in self-awareness, would you need to be to go wading into the current debate, knowing you had that on your CV? Surely anyone with a brain would have just kept their head down, this week!?
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
The Fifth Column
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For £125 you get a shirt that features 'Nike Dri-FIT ADV technology combining moisture-wicking fabric with advanced engineering' - Its just a rather fanciful way of saying its made from 100% Polyester, one of the most common, basic and cheapest fabrics on the planet. Mass produced in a sweatshop in Thailand for pennies I wonder if they let the workers wear Nike Dri-FIT ADV clothing or they slum it in standard polyester?..
TWOCHOICEStom
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I got a Nike shirt with that Dri-FIT ADV stuff just for the gym for 35 quid. (It's from teamwear catalogue basically). But it is incredible. The fit and finish is top notch and I've never worn a more comfortable shirt to the gym ever. Cannot recommend it enough.
That said, they are grossly over-priced as soon as a sponsor and team badge is stamped on them. 120 quid is absurd, but far worse IMO is the totally SHITE quality of the fan version. Charging £85 for something so bad is just mind boggling to me.
The Fifth Column
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Oh for sure, I'm not saying its not any good more ridiculing Nike's attempts to try and portray it as some kind of mystery super fabric in order to justify the extortionate prices they are charging. They've developed some good ways to weave the fabric in a certain way to produce an effective fabric but thats all it is, a weave programmed into a machine, even £35 is expensive. I recently returned from Vietnam where a lot of branded clothing is produced and purchased very good quality clothes at a fraction of the price they sell in Europe, the best quality and fitting T-Shirts for 3 or 4 quid, great quality sports clothing clearly made in the same factories for next to nothing. All this clothing is incredibly cheap to produce so I resent paying ridiculous prices simply for a brand badge.
Stato
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It wasn't during a tournament. It was November 2014 - Four months after the Brazil World Cup finished. Stupid mistake for a politician to make, but whether a St George's Cross draped over the house next to a white van, or a Union Flag on a white pole next to a perfectly manicured suburban lawn, or a flag from whichever country is currently being persecuted hung over the curtain pole in a city flat window, I must admit to finding the desire to hang flags at all a bit 19th century. I reckon it would be a better world if flags were only for questions on Pointless and Only Connect.
England have more often seemed to favour all white, or white and blue, not white and red. I guess this is either because of the dominant partner's assumption that the Union Flag colours belong to England, or because white and blue is easier to sell. However you could argue that the colours are generally inspired by the flag(s). To move away from arguments about nationalism and towards the much more fun trivia, let's ask the old chestnut about which teams don't play in the colours of their nation's flag and why?
If you can't be bothered to think about it, here's a link to spoilers: https://pyroonthepitch.com/2018/05/06/politics-on-the-pitch-2-the-non-flag-kit-colours-of-europe/
METALMICKY
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- Jan 30, 2004
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White?
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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Can someone please explain what the controversy is? As far as I can make out there's a small cross that's various shades of red, blue and purple on the back of the collar.
Why has it caused such a storm? Why are politicians condemning it? why are there national phone ins on it? Why does anyone care that much?
Why has it caused such a storm? Why are politicians condemning it? why are there national phone ins on it? Why does anyone care that much?
I'm not suggesting they would or should, more that a change at this stage would be very expensive, hence unlikely.
Hopefully they will do the knee in it? More of this and I might even bother to actually watch and England game
