I wouldn’t let my lad get Zaki on the back of his shirt a couple of seasons back. Thought it a rip off for 4 letters. Turned out I was right.
On this issue, I’d be more concerned with clubs changing their kit every season than whose name is on the back. I know of one club where the club charter clearly states once every two years. 6 years in the prem and 13 kits by my reckoning.
I wouldn’t let my lad get Zaki on the back of his shirt a couple of seasons back. Thought it a rip off for 4 letters. Turned out I was right.
On this issue, I’d be more concerned with clubs changing their kit every season than whose name is on the back. I know of one club where the club charter clearly states once every two years. 6 years in the prem and 13 kits by my reckoning.
In our first season we re-released the black and gold away top from the Championship as our third kit only to be told by the PL that we couldn’t as it had WAFC on the front and you can only have your badge on the front that advertises your name. The shirt had to be slashed to £10 and I’m not sure it ever sold out.
Add to that the Carling Cup final shirts (both blue and yellow) and you’re looking at 16.
Its pathetic – you know full well as a football supporter that your club can sign or sell players at any given time
Therefore if you pay to have someone’s name on the back you are running the risk that at some point whilst that kit is still in circulation you might wind up walking round with someone’s name on the back who no longer plays for your club
If a supporter doesn’t want to run that risk then the choice they have is not to get a name put on the back.
I suspect that if it had gone to the court then Reading would have won