I read on the ManUtd website (www.manutd.com) that a new home kit has been released - wasn’t it only last season that we had a new home kit? I thought Man Utd only changed the kit every 2 years, why has a new kit been released when the old one was only a season old? Think of all the new shirts that will fly out of the Mega Store on match day, great for Man Utd the business, but what about the fans? I hadn’t even gotten around to buying last seasons kit yet, was going to buy one for the next home game I went to, now I’ve missed it. 

Its all the parents out there that I feel for really. They’re the ones that will get pressured into shelling out another £40 on a shirt for their children just so that they have the ”latest” strip. If they only had to buy a new strip every 2 years, its not so bad, £20 a year, but every year seems a bit much! Its not like the football clubs don’t make enough money out of fans already. Ticket prices have gone up quite a bit recently, and the new TV deals mean they are getting millions of pounds of extra revenue from this season. I can’t remember the exact figure, but even the team that loses the premiership this season will get £30,000,000! That’s a hell of a lot of money just for coming last!