Quality of new home kit?

[Robby Blade]

Thank you to everyone advising me how to launder the shirt, I'll just pop back in my time machine and utilise that advice. You'll also notice last season's shirt is totally unblemished despite a whole year of me washing in exactly the same fashion as the new one, but whatevs.

You don't have a Phillapino maid to do your laundry?

 

[Kenilworth]

That logo will colour in with black marker pen & be as good as new.
Doesn't come close to the humiliation of having a pink & red striped Admiral shirt vintage 75/76 season after first wash.
Cheers Mum.
That was probably due to us having one of these & Mum having some sort of compulsion to boil everything to death.... hence the use of wooden tongs to handle anything that made it out alive ......

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In those days them things were the equivalent of the "Ann Summers experience." So I am told.

 

[Kenilworth]

Thank you to everyone advising me how to launder the shirt, I'll just pop back in my time machine and utilise that advice. You'll also notice last season's shirt is totally unblemished despite a whole year of me washing in exactly the same fashion as the new one, but whatevs.

You utter bastard!

You've got a fucking time machine and all your bothered about is your bloody shirt?

You could have gone back to fetch one or all of the following as they were just about to blossom:
Jimmy Hagan
Tony Currie
Alan Woodward

Selfish, selfish bastard

 

[Harrisblade]

OOOOoooh, touchy. What did you expect? You're lucky you haven't had relationship advice or been told what party to vote for in the next election. (Yet).

Surely that should be the LAST election?

 

[WhiteHawk]

but the logo thing will still crop up after a while.

I disagree. I've had tons of football shirts and never had a problem when washing them, but then again I very rarely wear them so they only get washed a few times.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

I'm not a fan of sponsors on shirts.
As an experiment, I used some isopropyl to remove the "Visit Malta" from one of my shirts. Turned out pretty good.

 

[The Crab]

I disagree. I've had tons of football shirts and never had a problem when washing them, but then again I very rarely wear them so they only get washed a few times.

Fair do's mate, I can only speak for my own experience.

I know people have certain views on "other" teams, but Benfica are mine. Every year when I go on holiday, I usually buy a shirt (they are also Adidas which may or may not have anything to do with it).

The vast majority of them after a while, have lost the sponsors lettering. Turning them inside out and washing on 30 degrees helps quite a lot, but eventually does still happen. But it could be the fabric softener thing as I use those tabs that have it in.

Or I could just be shit at housework

 

[Bladepicker]

Take it back moDtheGod - get a new one (tell them it was after 1 wash following instructions on the label and you'll have no issues) then follow the good advice on here re washing in future.

 

[Hamburg Blade]

These things are simply not designed to last. They are mass produced, I don't know where but probably using cheap labour and cheap materials. The idea is that you wear them for one season then buy the new one next season. Fans seem to be determined to wear them and keep them forever, but that's not in the interest of the shirt manufacturers or the club.
I don't really understand why people buy them; unless you're under 12 you look crap in one - only walking round Meadowhall in tracky bottoms looks worse. There's plenty of better merchandise if you want to support the club.
I have two, by the way, quite old now, which I bought to play sport in. They're in pretty good condition, but I won't be too fussed if they deteriorate.

 

[vorpal blade]

Moderators, please merge this thread* with its complementary thread about how to remove the sponsor's logo from last years shirt - although perhaps it wouldn't have been such a long thread if it were about this years shirt.

Seeing as a a lot of us would prefer the shirt without sponsors iron-on transfers, I think ModtheGod should take the positives out of his flakey advert. Further, I would like him to continue washing, starching, spinning, fumble-drying, block drying, and steam pressing his shirt in exactly the same way he already has (if he would please) and show us the results weekly. If, after say 20 washes, the logos have completely disappeared, then I'll consider buying one.

That's not too much to ask is it?

*I don't know what this even means

 

[Highbury_Blade]

You don't have a Phillapino maid to do your laundry?

He did, but she got sacked...

 

[Robby Blade]

I think I've ended up on the wrong website here...

More like fuckin Mumsnet than a football forum.

 

[vorpal blade]

More like fuckin Mumsnet than a football forum.

The threads got merged during Chedgate.

 

[moDtheGod]

You don't have a Phillapino maid to do your laundry?

She does all the ironing and cleans up and shit, but I wouldn't trust her not to ruin my Blades shirt.

Oh.