First bottle job of the season. Won't be the last.
As long as Rachel Riley is involved, I'll let you off for this
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As long as Rachel Riley is involved, I'll let you off for this
Think it's -£60 unless you buy the elite one made from fairies hair but yup it's pretty much a con in my eyes. I'd guess they cost about £5 tomake with a mark up of only 1000% for us loyal fans.
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In reality you've just explained the clothing manufacturing business for every garment made not just football kits.
Just made myself a cup of tea - who do I make the cheque out to?
Probably but the footballing market, is , more than any other a captive one. As a Spurs fan we don't say " I don't like that one or its price , I'll buy a Brenford one instead."
Mind you the club itself doesn't make a huge amount on each shirt, it's the manufacturers & importing taxes on shipping the stuff in.
Just checked , 1000% mark up is pretty accurate, not bad for a guess
Apart from kids I don't get the shirt replica business anyway, not having a pop at anyone that does buy them each to thier own and all that, but as an adult walking out my front door wearing a football top is not something I consider as a good look. I find that harder to get my head arround than forking out the change to buy one. How many times do adults wear them to a games? a handful at the start of the season and a handful at the end, what 6 games in total assuming they go home and away, the rest of the time it's covered up by a coat.
& the more I look into it , Man U sell about 1.5 million shirts a year ( actual ones) the club makes about £3 per shirt. That's £4.5m.
That's nothing , we probably sell around 600,000 per year making our earnings from shirt sales about £1.8m. But don't buy a fake one though!!! Your doingNike I mean Spurs out of pocket .
That's nothing , we probably sell around 600,000 per year making our earnings from shirt sales about £1.8m. But don't buy a fake one though!!! Your doing
The replica shirt over a jersey/sweatshirt/hoodie combo in winter looks particularly stylish I find
I haven't bought a shirt for years so I just had to re-read that - £90!!! Are we sure it's made by Nike and not Gucci?
I haven't paid more than £15 for a THFC shirt in years. I buy them at the end of the season. The last few are still in their wrappers. Don't even know why i do it.
I used to quite like going to friendlys, not these types mind, Norwich away was always pleasant.
The O,s away was good as it was local, we all thought we were watching a world beater in Dos Santos hahahaha,
The O,s away was good as it was local, we all thought we were watching a world beater in Dos Santos hahahaha,
Hmm... I'm sure i paid £40 quid to sit in the top tier at Wembley to see us play the Barca C team in the "Wembley Cup" about ten years ago (Edit: I did and that was a cheap seat: Wembley Cup - ticket details 12 May 2009 - News - tottenhamhotspur.com.) Livermore scored on his debut.
Im sure the pedigree of seeing us play at "New" Wembley and against such elite opposition made it seem attractive.
But this season its less of a glamorous prospect and not such a novelty due to the upturn in our fortunes and the fact that we have been there a few times in the last couple of years and will be all this season.
Plus we are playing CL regularly now so a tie against an elite European club is not as big a draw.
Fuck it, dont go if you think its too expensive. I wont be.
Im sure the pedigree of seeing us play at "New" Wembley and against such elite opposition made it seem attractive.
But this season its less of a glamorous prospect and not such a novelty due to the upturn in our fortunes and the fact that we have been there a few times in the last couple of years and will be all this season.
Plus we are playing CL regularly now so a tie against an elite European club is not as big a draw.
Fuck it, dont go if you think its too expensive. I wont be.
And I seem to remember even at the time the attendances were pretty awful?
And they tried to justify the prices with the fact that if you bought a ticket to see us play Barcelona you could also watch Celtic vs Al Ahly
Just checked, they got 57,932 so yep quite shit really.
Considering that was support from 4 teams (remember they kind of divided the stadium in quarter) - Barca had quite a few tourist fans as you imagine. Al Ahly no more than a few hundred, and Celtic not that impressive (considering they normally reckon to take a few billion to this sort of thing). Would reckon we were 30,000 at most.
