New Soccer Uniforms For a New League – and Newcastle Fans are not Happy.
These men are being paid to smile!
It is not a great time to be a Newcastle United fan. Relegated in a humiliating manner from top flight soccer, a club up for sale but no one is buying and the only star left, Michael Owens is in a hurry to go anywhere that is not Tyneside.
So the disgruntled fans have no idea what to make of the new away soccer uniforms that were revealed by the club this week. The general consensus from both fans and the media alike seems to be that these are the worst league soccer uniforms since Hull experimented (briefly) with tiger print in the early eighties(the same Hull team that Michael Owens hopes to join to save his Premiership career.)
The new soccer uniform is a yellow and orange striped affair that will certainly ensure that Newcastle players will be noticed by their new Championship League Colleagues. Difficult at a time when most of the players probably want to blend into the background for a while.
Normally Newcastle fans have a good sense of humor but after such a terrible season it seems to be a little lacking at the moment. One fan told a national British newspaper that “It’s not as though we fans have been made to look stupid enough without being asked to fork out good money to wear something as awful as that”. Another fan suggested that the new soccer uniforms were old stock from Newcastle owner Michael Ashley’s discount clothing store chain (not known for its quality).
There is a serious side to the fans extreme reaction to the new soccer uniforms. Newcastle, like many soccer clubs both professional and amateur, need all the cash they can get at the moment. Sales of replica soccer uniforms usually make up a sizeable chunk of a professional club’s revenue. If an entire line of away soccer uniforms is so awful there really is very little chance that the fans are going to be willing to pay to wear them.
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