Random Arsenal Shit (When it's not worth starting a thread)

[Letters]

I think we should take a moment to pause and consider how mad it is that clubs change their kit every year for no other reason than to fleece their fans, and a huge number of people just go along with it. Every year.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I think we should take a moment to pause and consider how mad it is that clubs change their kit every year for no other reason than to fleece their fans, and a huge number of people just go along with it. Every year.

It’s almost like that’s how marketing and commercialism works the world over

[Letters]

It’s almost like that’s how marketing and commercialism works the world over

Well, obviously.
But the relationship should be fan and club, not customer and business.
I know this is "old man yells at cloud", it's just how it is now, but I don't have to like it.

[Marc Overmars]

I don’t have an issue with it as people have the choice to buy them or not. However the price of them now is mental, £80 for adults and £50 for kids! Dreading the day my boy starts asking for a new kit every year.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Well, obviously.
But the relationship should be fan and club, not customer and business.
I know this is "old man yells at cloud", it's just how it is now, but I don't have to like it.

We don’t live in the world of what should, the only thing you can hope for is that people prepared to buy a new kit every year are people with more money than sense.

[Mac76]

I don’t have an issue with it as people have the choice to buy them or not. However the price of them now is mental, £80 for adults and £50 for kids! Dreading the day my boy starts asking for a new kit every year.

I think that's partly because people want the exact shirts the players wear, made from all the same materials etc, so that's gonna cost more

it's why something like the old 70s retro shirt is better value

[HCZ_Reborn]

Ultimately a kit home or away is made memorable by what has been achieved whilst wearing it

The Bruised Banana kit which is objectively horrendous is synonymous with the league cup/fa cup double in 1993

Gold away kit synonymous with Old Trafford win

Yellow and Black with Anfield 1989

[Niall_Quinn]

Away kit truly horrific. Whoever designed that must hate the club. On the other hand, I thought they'd all be wearing dresses by now, so at least it could still be considered unisex.

As for the price, that's where the 200mill transfer budget comes from, along with the ever exorbitant ticket prices. The complaint was never the cost, it was all about what you got in return. Which was nothing much.

There's a strong chance I won't be buying.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Away kit truly horrific. Whoever designed that must hate the club. On the other hand, I thought they'd all be wearing dresses by now, so at least it could still be considered unisex.

As for the price, that's where the 200mill transfer budget comes from, along with the ever exorbitant ticket prices. The complaint was never the cost, it was all about what you got in return. Which was nothing much.

There's a strong chance I won't be buying.

The club revenue won’t touch the sides in terms of our spending, this is the largesse of Tom Selleck and son combined with the amortisation of purchases

[Mac76]

Apparently the shirt design's supposed to be based on a map of Islington*

*after two tabs of acid