{"id":1119,"date":"2005-06-02T10:17:13","date_gmt":"2005-06-02T10:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2005\/06\/the_price_of_li\/"},"modified":"2005-06-02T10:17:13","modified_gmt":"2005-06-02T10:17:13","slug":"the_price_of_li","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/the_price_of_li\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Lions&#8217; Shirts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years there has been a spate of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/3116353.stm\">reports <\/a> about price fixing replica football shirts.<br \/>\nBut now you can buy football shirts relatively cheaply if you shop around &#8211; with supermarkets and discount sportswear outlets in retail parks (As a sidenote, I was looking for a bar-bell weight at the weekend for reasons I won&#8217;t go into now! Anyway, I wandered into one of those places and it was so stuffed full of clothing rails that you could barely move around. And this was in a spacious out-of-town site, not some cramped high street store. They did have England away shirts priced &pound;10 each though).<br \/>\nAnyway, with the Lions tour just getting underway, I thought that it might be nice to get a shirt. But Lions tour rugby shirts seem to be the last bastion of protectionism. Adidas make the shirts, and if you can get them for even a few pence less than the &pound;50 RRP then you&#8217;re doing well. Lions shirts have always been expensive, but this is ridiculous. It&#8217;s not as though the quality is exceptional, and you&#8217;re effectively wearing a bid advert for Zurich insurance.<br \/>\nI did <a href=\"http:\/\/froogle.google.co.uk\/froogle?q=british+lions+shirt\">Froogle<\/a> the shirts, and check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricerunner.co.uk\">Pricerunner<\/a>, and found a shirt for &pound;30, but it turned out to be for toddlers (sizes 18 months, 18-24 months and 24-36 months. Thirty quid!).<br \/>\nSomeone&#8217;s having a laugh. I think I&#8217;ll wait for the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arsenal.com\/article.asp?article=274128\">Arsenal kit <\/a>instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years there has been a spate of reports about price fixing replica football shirts. But now you can buy football shirts relatively cheaply if you shop around &#8211; with supermarkets and discount sportswear outlets in retail parks (As a sidenote, I was looking for a bar-bell weight at the weekend for reasons I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}