Fan suing the club

[Red]

lol

if he bough the calendar for christmas and a player left would he want his money back or a new calendar?

Newcastle fans cueing up to claim their refunds on 2011 calanders!

Yeh I think they'll be a bit snookered there.

[Royal With Cheese]

Take the club for everything they've got. Which, according to Mr. Madejski, is nothing.

[Row Z Royal]

lol

if he bough the calendar for christmas and a player left would he want his money back or a new calendar?

Newcastle fans cueing up to claim their refunds on 2011 calanders!

Especially as, turning over to February this morning, they found none other than...yep, you guessed it.

[weybridgewanderer]

Think Torres was january in the liverpool calendar, as he left on the 31st they are OK

[AthleticoSpizz]

I think the clubs got it right here TBF - it'd be a hell of a precedent to set otherwise.

I think in this rather extreme case (and but for the sake of a quietly sensible "goodwill gesture" of a blank replacement shirt being offered), the precedent that has been set, is to not have names printed on backs of shirts..........=........much more lost revenue to the club than the price of the aforementioned gesture.

[Red]

Interesting use of frimmers style punctuation.

I don't agree I'm afraid - people will still want to get names put on the back of shirts - and most people accept that players move on.

[moo]

[Stuka]

CLASSIC.


Anyway regarding the Sig shirt. I think clubs have it in their terms and conditions that once a shirt has been purchased with a name on the back, the club can't be responsible if the player leaves. This idiot will presumably now have to stump up some legal fees for his pathetic small claims hearing.

[Svlad Cjelli]

Anyway regarding the Sig shirt. I think clubs have it in their terms and conditions that once a shirt has been purchased with a name on the back, the club can't be responsible if the player leaves. This idiot will presumably now have to stump up some legal fees for his pathetic small claims hearing.

He's probably assuming the club will settle quietly out of court as most businesses do with small claims. Reading FC certainly won't do that, and if he thinks they will he doesn't know them, so he'll lose his money - about £40, I think.

[RoyalBlue]

Just been reading an article in 4-4-2 about a fan (or customer in new football speak) who is taking RFC to the small claims court.

The issue revolves round a shirt he purchased for his son back in August, and after hearing that the Sig "I'd be a fool to go anywhere else" ardsson had signed an extension to his contract decided to buy his boy an away shirt with the Sig on the back. 2 weeks later, Sig Foxtrot Oscars to Germany and the guy requests reimbursement. Naturally the club refused and hence his decision to go to Small Claims in order to get back his £45.

Legally, the club is totally within its rights to refuse to pay back the money / give him a "clean" shirt, but morally after banking £6.5m, a few replacement shirts (that I suspect cost the club at purchase price around £10-20) is hardly going to dent the bottom line, especially after making such a hullabaloo about Sig extending his contract.

I cannot quite work out in my head whether I think the guy is foolhardy (I won't allow my little one to get a name printed on his shirt until the window has closed so the least we will get is 4 months worth of "value") or the club is being a too hard nosed on its fans / customers.

Your sentiments are understandable and correct but sadly I doubt the law will have much time for such sentiment.

BTW, I suspect the club pay less than £10 a shirt.

The club is right - the bloke should have bought his shirt after the transfer window had closed, to trust a football player's every word is Oxf*rd stupid!

In this particular case, I believe the player's word wasn't the problem and he fully intended to stay with the club until he was persuaded to leave in the club's and his best interests!

[RoyalBlue]

Think Torres was january in the liverpool calendar, as he left on the 31st they are OK

Day Break claimed (and showed?) it was February this am. Likewise Carroll the other way round!

[Gordons Cumming]

At least it's not like getting Sean Evers tattooed on your arm...................

[Jerry St Clair]

At least it's not like getting Sean Evers tattooed on your arm...................

Back in the mid-nineties a Geordie had the image of Andy Cole tattoed on his thigh about a month before he left for Man Utd.

If it hadn't been for this precedent, I'd have definitely got Elroy Kromheer's face tattooed on my left buttock cheek.

[RoyalBlue]

At least it's not like getting Sean Evers tattooed on your arm...................

With his name on your arm would have fallen off anyway - so not a problem!

[Red]

This thread seems as a good a place as any to put this.

Schoolboy finds his wardrobe ruined by transfer deadline day

[Tinrib]

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/prof ... =615458499

[old woman]

Reading 2010 calendar December Sig and Gregor !!!

[RoyalBlue]

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=615458499

So the guy's called James McGhee?!

I wonder whether he's any relation.

[AthleticoSpizz]

Interesting use of frimmers style punctuation.

I don't agree I'm afraid - people will still want to get names put on the back of shirts - and most people accept that players move on.

you agree, or do not agree with what you want "Red".

I am still in the costly "son wanting to buy shirt with name on" stage of parenthood

[Royal Lady]

Interesting use of frimmers style punctuation.

I don't agree I'm afraid - people will still want to get names put on the back of shirts - and most people accept that players move on.

you agree, or do not agree with what you want "Red".

I am still in the costly "son wanting to buy shirt with name on" stage of parenthood

Yes, and like Red said, you have to accept that players move on if you do buy a shirt with a name on. My son went through about 3 in 3 seasons where he'd just get a name put on and they'd leave - didn't bother me, or him, to be fair.