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Well, except England's first tailored by Umbro shirt, and then (skipping the crappy one with multi-coloured crosses on the shoulders) the one after that with red trim, with the soft material on the body and the stretchy sleeves. Ok, so barely anybody buys a football kit for the quality of the shirt. Mine gets even less use now I don't even play 5-a-side any more, it literally just appears on match day in the pub and on the way to the ground. I'm always interested to see when people (every year), come on here complaining about scagging and pulling of the easily scag-and-pullable material football shirts are made of 95% of the time (above examples aside), when their kids are probably living in the things, and I won't even lean against a wall whilst wearing mine on a match day for that exact reason. They've always scagged, and they've always been at a high risk of pulls and suchlike once that happens. The difference is - you may not have had kids road-testing them before.

I must have seen him play for Newport a pile of times, cannot remember a single one of them. Anyway, time for my OCD compulsory Tony Pulis posts: 1) He was in the same class at school as my auntie 2) I played for the same team as his brother Ray (who also played for Newport) in 1992/3 3) So did this bloke, who my other auntie knows through the Probation Service (she used to work for them, he didn't). 4) As you might have worked out from 3), he is not from a very nice area

Soccer AM actually use the "Tony Pulis Scale" of managerial anger (with Pulis headbutting Beattie in the shower as a 10), with a full sized "Pulis in towel" mock up when talking to players about the angriest they've seen a manager - it's a VERY well known incident.

Tourrnament is 17th Jan to 8th Feb 2015, so at worst from around new year until about 12th Feb - that's assuming Senegal qualify (and then reach the Final) of course - but with Group G as it is, they're probably going to have to lose their next two games against Tunisia AND the return match in Egypt not to (and even then one of the 8 third place teams goes through). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Africa_Cup_of_Nations_qualification He's going to be away around 10-15 October and 14-19 November, but they're international breaks anyway - and now they've played Botswana away, Senegal is as far as he has to go (away matches in Tunisia and Egypt left too).

Another opportunity missed by the club, FFS.

Yeah, that was weird and probably counterproductive. Also, I hope Matt Groening sues them for breach of copyright.

I've seen snags on every Saints shirt since the beginning of time... well, the beginning of the 80s anyway. That's what happens to them if you actually wear them for anything other than football.

SaintRichmond must have been pretty high during the summer. I'm up to about 15 ignores now, what with the numerous banning and rebrandings, probably 75% of them aren't even current posters. Turkish is not one of them either.

Any idea if there's any truth behind the theory that Indian kids don't become footballers for cultural easons - i.e. cricket more popular and more aspirational, socially acceptable, etc? They're pretty crappy considering the population (but then so are China).

Meanwhile, I watched it live on Sky and actually went to their previous league match (in the away end at Fratton, of course).

Hallelujah, that's what we suspected as soon as the money claim came forward when the rumour came out regarding Liverpool winning the league.

I'm also pretty unimpressed that despite NBC's coverage of the Premier League last season, we only added 5,000 fans in that 7 month period in the US. Would be nice to see the August 2012 and August 2013 figures.

I'm sure plenty of them didn't notice and are trying to figure out where Lambert and Lovren are, just like I haven't had a clue what the New York Giants have been up to since last February despite purporting to follow them. Either that or they're better informed and are already Liverpool "fans".

This year's shirt is perfectly fine, and having our own kit being perceived as crap isn't going to prevent any of the big companies wanting to make money off us (or give money to us). Adidas' kit last season fell apart just as easily as anything we've done this year, the "quality" is all perception when it comes to replicas.

Last year's (which was the 2014/15 thread) began on 13th September, so you THINK you're joking... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?49230-2014-15-Kit-Revealed-TheStripesAreBack&highlight=2013%2F14 - but as for the 2015/16 thread... As there's nothing known about suppliers (other than the club is meant to be repairing relationships with adidas, though that's not confirmed yet), it's a bit more difficult this year - though actually I guess last year's was worse, at least this year we know it's meant to be changing, last year started with "it's adidas" and we only knew about stripes for sure very late in the day, especially with that Cortese shirt leak the day before. In short, probably when I see the first 2015 kit online, which is likely to be when the first catalogue or MLS leaks are out.

Or more specifically "potentially vast international money sink to ramp up FFP spending levels".

Bob Houghton's the only English India manager I can think of, and the player must be this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baichung_Bhutia but I've never heard of him. He signed for them in 1999 and left in 2002.

As in "they catch on stuff and it causes pulls in the fabric"?

Can't believe we signed Alderweireld and the Weir part has left already. He's probably re-signed for Everton though.

Who is the one bloke? How is it determined how the clock counts - eg does it stop for throw-ins? What, ALL of them? Every time, even when they take a quick one? How about when the ball goes out of the ground? Where's the defining line? I played in one match with a clock counting down on a Soccer Tour, no-one stopping it, just counting down. Suffice to say, the USA had never seen such skilled time-wasting and such commitment to hoofing the ball as far from the pitch and going down with minor knocks as Southampton University FC showed that day, once we'd gone 3-1 up. We also did a goal celebration based on the YMCA dance, but that's by the by.

I'd recommend "you're shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit and you know you are".

Are you suggesting it's actually a bell-shaped standard deviation chart based on follicular activity?

I'd call it the Daniel levy.

I quite agree... but there's no particular criteria being applied. Based on the above criteria, Bale as World's Most Expensive Footballer and glowing tribute to academy development should be up there for a start.

Which particular bits are meant to be defective? Other than the ridiculous sizing, I've had no problems at all with it.