Is it strange for people to wear their shirts outside of games?

Is it strange to own a football shirt at all?

Why do people choose to wear 'casual' clothing to games?

I wear my Sydney FC shirt around, often at uni.

1. Not really.
2. No.
3. If by casual you mean "ultra casual" it's because it's part of the ultra sub-culture in football. It started with firms wanting to make it harder for police to recognise them as football supporters and has grown from there.

sometimes

Not at all, I regularly wear my sports teams shirts.

Most definitely not.

Some people forget to wash their supporter gear or are there for something to do.

I used to wear my Victory shirt to work on weekends. That's about it for wearing it in public.

Yeah yeah I know what ultra casual means, a couple of my mates go casual to games.

But in Australia it is hardly due to warding off police presence. Is it because they don't believe in supporting the club by means of purchasing merchandise?

Always on game days.

-PB

No.

No.

Some people are just there for a night out.



Really is quite silly to own a football shirt, or any sporting team you support shirts and not wear it in public. They your team, show your passion and be proud that you a supporter.

I occasionally do, but normally I'm wearing a shirt for work if I'm out in public.

I oftens wear my Sydney jersey. And when I'm in Western Sydney, I puff my chest out, take a long drawn out sip of my Skinny Latte, and stare down anybody who dares look twice!

It was cool in the 90s because it was different. Now it's old hat.

Say Latte again! Say. Latte. Again! I dare ya, I double-dare ya Mothafucker, say Latte one more goddamn time!

RBB Wanderer, is that you? :lol:

Hahahaha

I wear all my sports tops in public, expensive bits of clothing not to. Funny enough I usually don't wear them to games because I prefer to go straight out after and not have to go home and change.

Full kit wankers on the other hand...

I'll wear my football top if i'm running, at training or going to the gym, i'll wear casual to a match.

Not a week goes by where I haven't worn one of my CCM shirts with 'Hutchinson 7' on the back :)

I prefer casual as I'd rather not look like a walking billboard.

Depends, aren't the casual clothes a billboard as well?

-PB

Yes, I wear them to work all the time.

I wear casual to games and jerseys around town

Go figure

They don't sell advertising space as far as I can tell, so no.

I seriously just don't get the casual thing. The style itself is cool but the concept is strange, particularly in Australia.

I love wearing my season 1 Melbourne top around :D

I wear my football strips on days off, when going to the local markets or when doing non dirty work in the yard.

I go Casual to games as the culture connected to casual is more aligned to my own mentality, the wearing of Football supporter gear is heavily connected to the "family friendly" entertainment connected to the dilution of the once great game given over to the corporations. I.e. no standing outside of specific areas, criminalisation of supporters, banning orders with no right to appeal, Docket rocket bans, pull over bans (because like the boats that has stopped), continuous over policing leading to way too much agro.

Wearing a football strip you're a walking billboard advertising what ever your club chooses to tell you, you want. The best football strips in the A-League are or were the Newcastle sponsor free shirts.

Look at Victory away? they went from the best away strip in the league to a literal shirt designed to match their sponsors colours and didn't give a flying fuck that these colours match that of their most bitter rivals.

As for casual wear, I prefer brands by smaller producers, brands made by casuals for casuals, Peaceful hooligan, Three Stroke Productions, Terrace Originals, Northern Soul, Casual Connoisseur, Curious Gentleman, 3nil, FTI Clothing. though I am still attracted to Lyle and Scott, Burberry, Ben Sherman (love their jackets and the Rounda Tee is a must), Lacoste and Henri Lloyd. You also have to have Adidas originals or a pair of Diadora (my personal favourite trainer).

Brands I steer clear of Fred Perry (too many fakes and all too common), Stone Island (you may as well put a target on your back and be asked to get stomped and robbed), Fila (it's just a little dated) and Barbour jackets (it's never THAT cold in Australia)

/rant

As the FTI Moto states: for those involved, no explanation is necessary, for those who are not, no explanation is possible...

Game Days

Ok well maybe I phrased that wrong. I do understand it, the whole idea just doesn't appeal to me. When going to a neutral game I wear casual-ish clothing, not full on casual though. They are entitled to wear what they want, as everyone is.

I'll wear them if I'm playing sport with friends or watching a relevant game at a friends place and obviously to game days. But for some reason I feel like a dick if I wear them out socially or casually.