I can't stand American soccer football or whatever they call it over there although I do like the design of the shirt I won't be buying one.I know there are loads of fans who like both sports and just feel that our club have missed a chance to give back something to the fans with a decent priced shirt instead of stitching them up.
I'm not sure how much the club has to do with pricing, though. It's a Nike shirt and they seem to range from £75 to £140: https://europe.nflshop.com/stores/n...MImJfMnpzb3gIVTLDtCh05ywRXEAAYAiAAEgJRSPD_BwE They also wouldn't want to undercut the normal kit, I guess. I don't know how many they expect to sell at that price, though.
I might be wrong but I thought the people making these shirts got payed very little so on that basis how can you justify 95 quid.
The stupid **** some people will pay very good money for will never cease to amaze me. I try to buy most things on ebay. My general rule is don't pay more than 25% of the new price. Very rarely do I have to break that.Recently, I needed a new formal jacket, so I went on ebay and bought an M&S designer range one for £3 plus £3.30 postage. It had been worn twice and is effectively brand new. I think it's in Jaws that Peter Brenchley describes a Lacoste polo shirt as a $1 shirt with a $19 alligator badge on it. The Harry Kane shirt has a Spurs label on it and is made by Nike.It's never going to be cheap, unless you compare it to genuine MV Agusta gear.....now that's ****ing expensive!
Some things you have to buy new, but very few. There are a lot of fakes on eBay, particularly engine parts and if you engine goes bang because of a fake con rod or piston, it proves very expensive. When engine building I prefer to buy from pukka suppliers. Burtons, Raceline etc. But clothes, fek the crocodile badge. Sainsburys do excellent quality jeans and asda do the best underware. Tesco socks are excellent as are their t shirts.
I'm strictly in the classic MV market and parts come through the owners club but I'm definitely with you on other stuff. I specialise in buying stuff that's new and people have failed to return for some reason or was a gift. Never buy anything that could be a present from now until Christmas. The best time is mid-January as people offload their unwanted stuff or when stuff's out of season - swimming shorts and lawn mowers in January and scarves, coats, etc. in July.
You reminded me a few years back I bought a bbq on boxing day from do it all reduced from £250 down to £45 now that was a bargain
From the BBC... One of the original members of the pop group Showaddywaddy has died at the age of 72. Bassist Al James, whose real name was Geoffrey Betts, died in hospital on Friday, three weeks after suffering a fall at his Market Harborough home. ...at this point, it is unclear whether the fall was down 'Three Steps to Heaven.' What do you mean, too soon?
I had to look that up. I never could stand them and I loved Sweet, Slade, T Rex, etc. Them and Mud..........just no.
They covered all those doo-wop songs didn't they? It was originally by The Jarmels in 1961. I've got a pop punk cover version (the Ramones were just a doo-wop band with Marshall amps)
For me, they made bad covers of perfectly good records.They were to be filed alongside Cliff Richard, Status Quo, Boney M and the like -every release was totally **** and guaranteed to be on Radio 1 and TOTP, when they were the only shows in town. Britain was ****ing dreadful pre-punk.
Showaddywaddy seemed very cheesy, but there was a '50s revivalist thing in the early '70s wasn't there? The songs were good even if the covers did sound like the entertainment at Butlins. Music was a bit odd at that time, but glam rock still stands up as great music now. Better not to watch them in their platform shoes and tin foil outfits though. Not a great image.
I had platforms but where I lived, tin foil was for cooking and dipping in flat lager. My dad had the original 50's records and UK acts covering them had no appeal for him or me.
Respectfully disagree with that, 70s pop was great. Pretty much all of it. And the alternative 70s stuff too. The beauty of it was that you (well me anyway) could watch both TOTP and OGWT and like the stuff on both.
See I don't get the genre "glam rock" it doesn't really mean anything. Most of the genres don't work anyway as bands often did stuff outside their genre even on the same album and sometimes switched genres completely. Early and late Genesis are a bit different - what genre are they again? As for glam on one hand it's more of an image, and yet they often include people like Suzi Quatro who isn't glam in any way the same as Sweet. Then of course glam retrospectives don't mention Glitter because apparently he never existed as a musician. Regardless of how they dressed, a lot of stuff that Slade and Sweet did was quite rocky - and I think labelling them as "glam" does them a big disservice. I've often heard it reported that Noel Gallagher mentions some Slade stuff as an influence. Well woopy-doo! I think the opinion of rock legend Noddy Holder about Oasis has significantly more value. Oasis aren't fit to like Slade's very large boots.
