Up to 75% off what they have left.
Are they closing down?
Some city stuff left but limited on sizes.
https://www.toffs.com/shop-by-team/f...p/cardiff-city
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Up to 75% off what they have left.
Are they closing down?
Some city stuff left but limited on sizes.
https://www.toffs.com/shop-by-team/f...p/cardiff-city
I thought Trump had crashed the markets again for a second :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Trigger
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Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue
Looks like you have to be S (small) to have much choice!
Yes usual on these sorts of sales, small or xxl. Although I did manage to get some average sizes in Brazil and Argentina. Something for my son too who happily wears any kit.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Prophet of Doom
Didn't fancy the Wales stuff that is left, just reminds me of Liverpool.
I was on the point of ordering the one from around 1967 with the word “Bluebirds” where the badge would normally be, but then I saw it was only available in 3xl - I’m someone who has been on a lifelong upward journey as far as shirt size is concerned, but Ive not quite got there yet :hehe:
Britain is closing down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trigger
I guess it's inevitable as time moves on and fashions change, esp as 90s stuff is very fashionable again now, but Toffs has been taken over by the retro kits from more recent years now, some of which can fetch a very tidy sum indeed.
Toffs peak was probably after Fever Pitch came out, that kind of era.
Harrods has taken a beating NQATQuote:
Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue
I've always thought their stuff was a bit naff, i've never seen anyone look good in their gear.Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
Yeah same tbh. It's also a bit before my time too. Was a bit cool in an "anti premier league" way with no sponsors and things. Again, mid 90s..Baddiel and Skinner and all that. Ironically it's the shirts from that period that are now far more fashionableQuote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
Cardiff 3xL great, 30” long! Must be crop tops!
Toffs, Fever Pitch and Skinner & Baddiel, a hat trick of wank.Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
I'm sorry I can't have that for fantasy football league. I absolutely loved that programme.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
I knew I could rely on you 👍Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
Produced by *****, for stupid wannabe ‘lad’ waankers who thought watching it was football ‘fandom’, whatever the **** that was or is? The fact Baddiel now cries about antisemitism and has written about his experiences of being a victim at football matches but thought it would be ‘comedy’ to ‘black up’ and do a sketch similar to something Jim Davidson would only find funny (another cuunt) when hosting Fantasy Football shows what a self conceited, hypocritical, sanctimonious prick he is.Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
It bet you love the three lions song they did with the lightning seeds though?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
What was wrong with Fever Pitch?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
Toffs was a pretty neat trick - people complain about new shirts coming out every year (with a crap design and naff sponsor) so here was a chance to get something that would transcend that. The shirts were so out of date as to be almost timeless. They were overpriced, mind.
The film was a bit naff but it is a fantastic book. I remember reading it in schoolQuote:
Originally Posted by Bluebirdman Of Alcathays
Yeah, the film was a bit of fluff and had little to do with the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
my youngest appears to be collecting kits, got the RM V Liverpool in Kiev one recently ( with Bale 11 on the back )Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
she dug out my old Welsh shirts, I didnt realise I had both home and away in 1991 ( was that when we beat West Germany in the arms park ? ? I think it was ) so today I pick her up from school and she has the white shirt on
3XL and 30" is clearly designed to show off their man boobs!Quote:
Originally Posted by Des Parrot
As a book it's alright. I don't remember reading it and thinking it really resonates with me, I'll qualify this at the time I read it my opinion would've been skewed by christ knows what I was doing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluebirdman Of Alcathays
The irony of the book is Hornby writes about watching Arsenal during the 70s and 80s and it became such a 'go to' for the football luvies/hipsters who followed. You know the type now profess to supporting St. Pauli.
Same for Toffs.
Baddiel/Skinner just weren't funny. Baddiel in particular is a cuunt.
Have they got a ‘Darts’ one?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
Darts isn't a sport, remember?Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
I like Fever Pitch as a book but it definitely isn't a "universal" experience of being a fan, certainly doesn't resonate with me either. I think it represents a certain "type" of fan that has grown since sky sports, the Premier League etc. At the end of the day Hornby is a middle class home counties boy who follows a fashionable London club, can't move for that now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
He might be a middle class home counties boy now but I'm not sure he was then and as Jordi points out, he writes about a time before Italia 90 and Sky, so it's not his fault it was part of that wave.Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
You're right about the universal thing though. Football fans (including me) tend to get a bit snooty about how we're represented because we're a broader church than people realise.
There's a chapter in the book where he follows Cambridge for a couple of years while at university and while there gets in an argument with another student who's adamant he couldn't be into literature and football at the same time. That was how we were seen by some back then and then it flipped to a certain extent. I'm not sure who won in the end. I don't see many people reading a Penguin classic at half time. (Eating one, perhaps).
He came from a very comfortable background. I know his dad was pretty high up in something, but so what, no one chooses that.
I guess his greatest influence football wise is that he helped usher in the changes in football in the early 90s, many of which were positive let's be honest. He wrote a successful literary book about football which for the years prior to that had been associated with violence and creaking stadiums and all the rest. It did help in the end result that threw baby out with the bathwater and the rapid change in the fanbase of football but he's not alone in that.
Either way, it's a great book and helps to explain why football can appeal to the boy and the man in us. Would have been nice really if it continued and talked about how he took his kids to games too cos that's one of the best things of supporting a club.
Edit: just looked on Wikipedia and his dad has an entry himself - he was a business executive. Not sure what that is but it sounds fancy.
His brother in law is Robert Harris. I never knew that. Robert Harris is an absolutely fantastic author. Can't recommend him enough
Not that it makes any difference to his writing skills, Hornby's father received a knighthood so I'm thinking that he probably didn't grow up on a council housing estate?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluebirdman Of Alcathays
A book I preferred to 'Fever Pitch' was Tim Parks 'A Season with Verona' who like Hornby went to Cambridge University.
Not sure why the football luvies didn't pick up on this book but I'd imagine Parks knocking about with Italian ultras with racist views would've spoiled the narrative about how suuuper footie is?
If I remember, at the end of the season the fans made a black player's, who has been playing well for them, life a misery because he was black.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
I read the book and looked for it again a few years later in the library but was nowhere to be seen. Shame as I recall it being a really good read. American author I think.
Tim Parks author of 'A Season in Verona' is English.Quote:
Originally Posted by lardy
You might be thinking Bill Buford who wrote 'Among the Thugs'?
A season in Verona is a great book. There is one about Liechtenstein I've read too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
The miracle of Castel di Sangro is great too.
I don't really read football books now mind. Only so much to read about the topic of football culture really
Fair enough, perhaps I'm wrong about his background, but I'd say the book was part of the whole fanzine/WSC culture rather than a call to football luvvies. I loved it at the time, so I'm probably showing some bias.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
'The Miracle of Castel di Sangro' was written by a Yank, forgot about that book.Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
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Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
They are absolutely gash again now so not so much of a miracle afterallQuote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
I looked last week and there were early '80s tops with the yellow badge. Now there's nothing. I think the site might be having problems.
Were Toffs shirts that expensive? From memory, they were cheaper than the dross sold by the club every season and they were better quality.
Has everything sold out? Nothing coming up….was going to get the fa cup final one first my lad too….Quote:
Originally Posted by Trigger
Nothing on there yesterday either.Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
If closing as I assume they are imminently then maybe they can't handle any more orders.
I think they have always tracked official replica kits to be honest. I remember looking to buy one when I was about 16 or whatever (and I didn't) and it was a decent outlay for someone on a washing up and occasional dessert counter wageQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson