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.

Speaking of which - remember our greatest ever kit (apart from the e&c now), the navy away kit? I managed to pick one up last week for $20.

#lifecomplete

I have a lot of football jerseys, but I rarely wear them. Usually just train in them. I'll probably wear my new Glory jersey a little bit though.

I find the cheaper supporter tops usually don't have advertising on them. You actually pay more for a 'replica' shirt, which actually has the sponsors logo front and centre. I tend to wear the team polo or supporter short that just has the team logo and the A-League logo and nothing else.

I will be wearing mine to the gym but that is usually it.

"Hyundai A-League" emblazoned on the front would disagree with that statement.

I wear my 'real shirts' (i.e. the ones that aren't cheap knock-offs from China) out casually, although I've only got a Blackburn one, Star Wars one and Glory one. I have a few cheap fake ones, but I just wear them to training.

I wear a Celtic shirt in public from time to time, can be approached by other Celtic fans or Rangers fans for a bit of a mostly friendly chat. I used to have dreads like Henrik Larrson and the Celtic fans used to love that, was photographed a few times.

I wear a St Pauli shirt out and about too. Have worn it at a rave, it attracts Germans for a chat. They love that you have a obscure German shirt on and not one of the big clubs.

I only wear Victory gear to Victory games for some reason.

I wear my fc st pauli gear around regularly. Attracts all the bitchez

Isn't St Pauli now just a trendy label? love St Pauli and all but they've become a brand synonymous with left and gay/women's rights movements?

St Pauli shirts are like the Ramones shirts, everyone trying to fit the scene has one.

St Pauli is the non-conformist's football jersey.

similar to wearing an OBEY snapback or singlet? :lol:

They probably wear Vans as well.

I've got a few A-League kits but most of them look clunky with all the shit on them and the dud badges. The ones I wear out are more sleek and well-fitted, like a Dynamo Moscow one. The cyrillic on the back is usually a conversation starter.

I wear a few of them out and about.
My Lithuania jersey, the 125th anniversary Arsenal one, the 05/06 Highbury shirt, the 06 Australia away shirt. Most of my others I only wear at matches or when doing sport.

Where on earth did you get a Lithuania jersey from? Do you have family over there?

What the fuck are you rambling on about now?

They have the "Hyunday A-League" logo on the polo shirts for many of the clubs, Hyundai having paid for the naming rights, so there is paid advertising on them.

The Melbourne Victory Polo also has KFC on it.

I agree with that. I'm talking about non-merchandise clothing, however.

If it's not Merchandise how do you buy it?

I think he means casual clothing as in Ben Sherman, Adidas trainers etc. etc.

God help us all

It's not my fault you're incapable of expressing yourself adequately.

Yeah, the big emblazoned designer logo on them is definitely not advertising.

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Yeah, you don't understand what advertising is, and I'm the retard. Good one.

If you can't differentiate between the sponsorship plastered all over jerseys and the small logo a garment maker places on their work, I'm afraid it is indeed you who is the retard.

Advertising is advertising. Whether it's their own brand or someone else's.

That's true to a point, but I'm not going to pay money to walk around advertising various businesses I have no interest in. It's fairly difficult to avoid a garment without some sort of logo.

It's not. They're out there. I wear them all the time at work.

Great, I don't care. Pick me one up next time you're clothes shopping in K-Mart.

It's actually Calvin Klein but good on you for making the effort to call me a pleb. That's quite a stretch for someone who lives in Adelaide.

As an Adelaidean, I believe I am more than qualified to identify plebs as I see them.

The old "takes one to know one" adage rings truer than ever.

I wear my shitty old Liverpool shirts around everywhere. Nearly everything has fallen off them so they are basically just red shirts with a barely legible stitched Liverpool logo now.

I have only ever worn my Sydney shirts to games. They mean more to me and I don't want them to get wrecked.

My Olympic Sharks shirt stays in my cupboard permanently. I hate people asking what the hell "Bank of Cyprus" is.

Indeed it does my pleb friend.

Wear my Heart shirt all game day around Ballarat and Melbourne on game days. Tomorrow will be a pain in the arse getting the train from Ballarat to Melbourne, then onto Clayton for my exam then back into the city for the match, then back to Ballarat that night...but I'll do all that in my Heart shirt (we need all the advertising we can get, even if it means coping abuse all day).

So much of this post makes me laugh.

I've got heaps of Gunners tops that get a good airing - mainly when exercising. I especially love the redcurrent 05-06 top... it has O2 on the front but that doesn't bother me.

No-one knows what the advertising on my 01-02 home shirt is - Dreamcast - it seems so old now when you look at games nowadays.

I don't have the current kit and with the one just superceded I made the mistake of washing in warm water and the 'Fly Emirates' came off - which is good to a point until it looks like a knock off cos you can see the faded marks where the lettering used to be.

I also wear a Barca top, Celtic top or Socceroos top when playing in the park with mates or exercising (The Socceroos top means I don't have to wear a bib).

I strictly only wear Heart tops to games (or whilst watching away matches on tv) and have white heart/arsenal training tops for my recreational teams at Box Hill Indoor Sports (Micro Machines) and Ringwood City7s (Real Ale Madrid). The Caulfield Cougars have club kits so it only when you have to wash them that I have them outside of match day so they don't get worn.

My work is casual so rarely have to wear shirts - in fact I've not had to wear a tie this year.

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Haha, it's a great day out, I recommend it.

This, it pleases me that heart fans get abused in the city that is apparently "theirs"

Did you go to "oh-leem-pick!" games when they played at shark park too?

I'd have thought that was pretty self-explanatory :lol:

You forgot the all-important clap.

Yeah, you've got to make sure you give them the clap.

I wear Fred Perry shirts with the top button done up, and a bow tie.

Wore my MV top car shopping a couple of weeks ago. The salesman was a school friend of Francesco Stella and assured me that Stella is a gun and will thrive given a chance. I didn't buy the car.

Edited by Alex-S: 8/11/2013 12:52:50 PM

Good choice, would've been a guaranteed lemon.

So would I but people still ask.




Yes with my Brett Emerton junior members card. It started my love of watching live football.

Meh, I've been rocking st pauli shirts for years. Fxxxing hipster yo

Obviously you were uncool before it was cool to be uncool.

Coolception

No.

Wearing my 2012-13 Sydney FC Jersey emblazoned with #10 Del Piero today. Suck it, Haters.

Is it strange for people to wear their shirts outside of games? Yes
ction.
Is it strange to own a football shirt at all? No

Why do people choose to wear 'casual' clothing to games? Looks better than a walking corporate logo.

Hope I answered some of your questions to your satisfaction.