Why Must Football Fans Have The Latest Shirt?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-65026647
...I go to rugby and you can see shirts going back to the 60s! My local team even changed colours a few years ago and most of us still turn up in the old colours! Don't moan about the rip off just don't buy.

[bhg481]

I find it very offensive that clubs have now started having an away-strip so fans have to buy two sets of kit.

[ToraToraTora]

"....so fans have to buy two sets of kit" - didn't know it was compulsory.

[bhg481]

It is if you're a true fan, TTT. I'm not and never was.

[Ken4155]

I have 4 children and for a few years, one or another of them would buy me the latest BFC shirt - usually for Christmas when the prices have lowered. I now have about 7 on hangers in the wardrobe, 1 on my 'Burnley' wall and 1 currently hanging on the back of my bedroom door. That's the only one i wear and it's from about 10/11 seasons back.
You can scour the crowds at football matches and you will see that there are many wearing shirts from seasons past.

[THECORBYLOON]

"Why Must Football Fans Have The Latest Shirt?"

As you replied to another post, "didn't know it was compulsory."...

[Old_Geezer]

Why does anyone insist on owning the latest anything ? Peer pressure possibly. Some type of mental compulsion maybe. Too much money burning a hole in their pocket perhaps. Could be simply conspicuous consumption .

[Arksided]

Reading the article I'm no surprised they're miffed off! £90 for a rag cloth.. I wouldn't even clean out my gutters with that even if it were 50p.

Home and away shirts have been about since football began... the third kit I think about when the 'Premiership' came into existence 92/93. You can even get training kits now.

I have to say the last replica shirt I bought was a Man United home about twenty years ago.

And as Ken says you can see many old shirts at grounds even if just on the TV.