JJB to pay fans over football shirt rip-off

part of a cartel of seven companies fined a total of more than £16 million in 2003 for fixing the price of England and Manchester United football shirts in 2000 and 2001. Fans who paid up to £39.99 for certain England and Manchester United football...
09 January 2008

Football Shirt Culture - by James Bailey

the total value of Premiership shirt sponsorship to the incredible £70 million a year figure. With five top clubs (Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Newcastle and Tottenham) accounting for the majority of the overall sum, it is the Red Devils who...
02 January 2008

Flashback : Newcastle United 95/96 shirt

distance of winning the league in this kit, Les Ferdinand, Phillipe Albert, Rob Lee, David Ginola et al. Hammering Manchester United 5-0 in the pouring rain is one game which really stands out in the memory whenever I see this shirt. Even the lettering...
12 December 2007

Manchester United 'Busby Babes' 1950s style kit

Manchester United will mark the 50th anniversary of the plane crash that killed eight members of its famed team of "Busby Babes" by playing February's Premier League match against Manchester City in a 1950s style kit. United has been given special...
09 December 2007

Nike eyes takeover of rival Umbro

by Nike would give the American firm a huge presence in the Premiership, where it already supplies kit to Arsenal and Manchester United, among others. Umbro supplies six Premiership teams, including Birmingham and West Ham. Nike also sponsors leading...
22 October 2007

Shirt makers discouraging supermarket sales

from stocking their products, a BBC investigation has discovered. Nike, which makes shirts for the likes of Manchester United, Arsenal and Celtic, has a long list of criteria that retailers wanting to stock its products must meet. BBC News has obtained...
14 October 2007

Classic Football Ads : Vintage Bukta Ads

icons including George Best, Bobby Charlton, and Jimmy Greaves. It has also dressed top UK football clubs including Manchester United. Bukta is moving away from its functional sports roots and is now focused on becoming a fashion brand. Due to famous...
11 October 2007

Colour could be key to success at work & play

years, just four teams have won the FA Cup including red giants Arsenal, Liverpool and this year’s FA Cup finalists, Manchester United. They will play Chelsea in blue, the second most popular colour, worn by more than a quarter of teams. And it seems...
11 October 2007

Taking the shirt off their backs

sporting memorabilia market to break into the big money. It happened all of a sudden, two years ago, when a bundle of Manchester United football programmes - those dull, dog-eared things - estimated at only pounds 80-pounds 120 at Bonhams, fetched an...
26 September 2007

Ebay : Man United 80-90 adidas collection

This Collection of Manchester United Adidas replica shirts from 1980 - 1990 is up for auction on Ebay.co.uk The seller added the following: Up for auction : vintage 1980 adidas manchester united home shirt item: classic 1980 adidas manchester united...
20 September 2007