If our scarfers and flaskers can't even find something to buy in the shop we do have a problem. We may be one game from an FA Cup semi final at Wembley come Monday night, a potential bonanza for the shop. Vast improvement required.
But many sell a wide range of tasteful, useful, thoughtful and quality merch though. Do many other clubs sell the Mally Welburn book?
I've had £25 worth of gift vouchers for tiger leisure since the start of the season but as I've got all of Mally Welbournes books on burglary, street fighting, trawler lads and bad parenting, there is very little left to chose from.
You need a Pedlars License to sell outside the ground and if you make goods with club badges on, you risk getting nicked for trademark infringement, but I don't think it's really enforced.
Wondered why they were stocked. I believe he has a paragraph or two about City in one of those books. Ah that explains it then...... Personally, No Deal.
I believe the ould biddies in the ticket office knit the beeney hats and scarfs. Had a couple of sell outs recently so you can't expect them to keep up.
AA would enforce it!!! There was loads of stalls etc outside the emirates, I always wondered how they get away with it
My best guess is that the stuff outside, normally, is cheaper. If the club 'banned' the sellers outside there would be a mini outrage saying that they're trying to force the fans to buy the more expensive 'official' tat
Where would we get our half and half scarves from without these guys. They even sold them at the Southampton game.
It would make an interesting court case. The side that has publicly stated the existing brand is lousy and wants to change it trying to say it's worth a lot of money and the cheap tat undermines that value in order to maximise the compensation, whilst the person likely to be on the side saying that the brand is great is trying to argue it means nothing in order to minimise the damages they have to pay.
