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BLADE RUNNERS AT THE CUTTING EDGE OF LIFE
THE NEWS THAT SHEFFIELD UNITED players Ade Akinbiyi and Claude Davis came to blows at the club’s training ground last week was exciting enough. The further revelation that the latter was armed only added to the fun.
But the real cherry on the cake was the speculation that Claude had been tooled up with some kind of razor. Was he trying to be clever, or was he unaware of his club’s nickname and the irony of him, a Blade, attacking Ade, another Blade, with a third sharp object? And can we expect this trend to spread? Will we discover that Ledley King and Dimitar Berbatov have faced off at Tottenham’s training complex, both armed with spurs? Or that, in the midst of their crisis, several of West Ham’s squad have attacked Carlos Tévez and Javier Mascareno, using hammers? Well, they can’t say they weren’t warned. When Tottenham announced that this season’s new away kit was going to be all-brown (or, as they insist, “chocolate”) I wrote in these very pages that no good would come of it. A couple of months later and I have been proved correct, but not in the way I imagined.
In many ways the new strip has been a success. Being the near-black of the finest bitter Suchard’s, rather than the tawny tint that tends to remind of public lavatories and urban pavements, it looks rather good. No, the problem with the new smock has not been aesthetic, but rather in the area the car industry calls “build quality”. Put plainly, not all the new kits have proved indestructible. I don’t know the full extent of the problem, but it’s been bad enough that Spurs have offered to repair or replace the shirts, even refund peoples’ money. Indeed, the official website hints that a significant chunk of the next batch of the brown rig-out is going to have to go not to new customers, but to dissatisfied old ones.
The whole thing is more complicated than an episode of CSI and is tucked away, in all its Byzantine complexity, on the THFC website at tottenhamhotspur.com/news/articles/thirdkitupdate.html So the curse of brown kits continues. No team has ever won a major trophy wearing such a monstrosity. And, if Tottenham’s problem is even half as bad as it looks, no club has ever turned a profit out of them either.
Anyone heard about this ?
BLADE RUNNERS AT THE CUTTING EDGE OF LIFE
THE NEWS THAT SHEFFIELD UNITED players Ade Akinbiyi and Claude Davis came to blows at the club’s training ground last week was exciting enough. The further revelation that the latter was armed only added to the fun.
But the real cherry on the cake was the speculation that Claude had been tooled up with some kind of razor. Was he trying to be clever, or was he unaware of his club’s nickname and the irony of him, a Blade, attacking Ade, another Blade, with a third sharp object? And can we expect this trend to spread? Will we discover that Ledley King and Dimitar Berbatov have faced off at Tottenham’s training complex, both armed with spurs? Or that, in the midst of their crisis, several of West Ham’s squad have attacked Carlos Tévez and Javier Mascareno, using hammers? Well, they can’t say they weren’t warned. When Tottenham announced that this season’s new away kit was going to be all-brown (or, as they insist, “chocolate”) I wrote in these very pages that no good would come of it. A couple of months later and I have been proved correct, but not in the way I imagined.
In many ways the new strip has been a success. Being the near-black of the finest bitter Suchard’s, rather than the tawny tint that tends to remind of public lavatories and urban pavements, it looks rather good. No, the problem with the new smock has not been aesthetic, but rather in the area the car industry calls “build quality”. Put plainly, not all the new kits have proved indestructible. I don’t know the full extent of the problem, but it’s been bad enough that Spurs have offered to repair or replace the shirts, even refund peoples’ money. Indeed, the official website hints that a significant chunk of the next batch of the brown rig-out is going to have to go not to new customers, but to dissatisfied old ones.
The whole thing is more complicated than an episode of CSI and is tucked away, in all its Byzantine complexity, on the THFC website at tottenhamhotspur.com/news/articles/thirdkitupdate.html So the curse of brown kits continues. No team has ever won a major trophy wearing such a monstrosity. And, if Tottenham’s problem is even half as bad as it looks, no club has ever turned a profit out of them either.
Anyone heard about this ?
) but they both denied it I believe.