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One for Mr Ashley to ponder...

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  1. Mick O'Toon

    Mick O'Toon Well-Known Member

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    Getting shirty: Reading fan forces

    REMEMBER all those Liverpool fans setting fire to their Fernando Torres shirts after he left for Chelsea? And considering his was the top selling name on Premier League shirts for two seasons running, in Britain and abroad, that was a whole heap of shirts to burn.

    Well, maybe they should have kept their matches in their pockets and just looked for a refund – like 13-year-old Reading fan Jon McGhee.

    Last July he spent his birthday money – about €50 – on a Reading shirt with Gylfi Sigurdsson’s name on the back, only for the player to be sold to Hoffenheim two months later.

    Jon’s Da James asked the club for a refund on the grounds that Sigurdsson had signed a new contract the previous spring, so it was fair for him to assume he would be “staying at Reading for the foreseeable future”.

    “On yer bike,” was the gist of the club’s reply, so James took his claim to the county court in Middlesbrough, where he lives. The club agreed to settle out of court, paying €98 to cover legal costs.

    Reading spokesman Craig Mortimer insisted the club only agreed to pay up “because the hearing was right up in – Middlesbrough – for the time and effort, it was far more logical to settle”.

    James offered encouragement to fans. “For anybody else in the same position, this just shows it is well worth pursuing it,” he said, possibly prompting 50,000 ex-Torres fans to try to repair their fire damaged shirts.

    IRISH TIMES
     
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    Mick O'Toon, Mar 21, 2011
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    Brilliant!

    Well done to him for that.
     
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    overseasTOON, Mar 21, 2011
  3. Hugh Briss

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    It just goes to show that anyone who has an ounce of sense would settle out of court rather than visit smogland! <laugh>
     
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    Hugh Briss, Mar 21, 2011
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    <laugh> That's the reason!!! <laugh>
     
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  5. Mick O'Toon

    Mick O'Toon Well-Known Member

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    HA HA very good.I live in Dublin I wonder what my chances are with my Carroll shirt
     
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    Mick O'Toon, Mar 21, 2011
  6. Agent Bruce

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    Give it a try Mick, won't cost you anything and Ashley wouldn't like to travel all the way to Dublin to settle. Of course he might fancy a trip over for a holday so you might not be so lucky in that respect. That plus he might like a drop of the black stuff. Hell, I'll come over and act as his agent.
     
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    Wouldn't it make sense to develope a more shirt-friendly removeable transfer for names and numbers so they can be changed?

    Also, you could have an endless minute of fun slightly laughing at all the BENT 69 CARROLL arrangements that could be made from the returned shirts....
     
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    How many Scousers will be handing in smoke and flame damaged yet hastily repaired 'Tories' shirts for a refund?
     
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    overseasTOON, Mar 21, 2011
  9. Mick O'Toon

    Mick O'Toon Well-Known Member

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    Also if match was boring you could have endless fun re-arranging names and numbers of the lads sitting in front of you
     
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