Top Man t-shirt sparks outrage

Sorry but if anyone thinks that's not deliberate then they are gullible beyond belief. Who the fuck puts the year the remix of a song is released in giant letters on a T shirt? And it just happens to be on a red, football style shirt with Karma down the sleeve and what goes around comes around written under it? It's not even a famous song ffs.

I'd put money on that being designed by some cheeky twat who thought he could sneak it through with that feeble excuse, seeing if anyone would pick up on it. Probably the same sort of twat who goes on a Etihad stadium tour wearing a rag shirt, or tarmacs a club shirt under a rivals stadium.

I've got some magic beans for sale if anyone is interested.
 
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BigOscar said:
Sorry but if anyone thinks that's not deliberate then they are gullible beyond belief. Who the fuck puts the year the remix of a song is released in giant letters on a T shirt? And it just happens to be on a red, football style shirt with Karma down the sleeve and what goes around comes around written under it? It's not even a famous song ffs.

I'd put money on that being designed by some cheeky twat who thought he could sneak it through with that feeble excuse, seeing if anyone would pick up on it. Probably the same sort of twat who goes on a Etihad stadium tour wearing a rag shirt, or tarmacs a club shirt under a rivals stadium.

I've got some magic beans for sale if anyone is interested.
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The world doesn’t revolve around Liverpool you know. You don’t even know that it was designed in the UK.
 
johnmc said:
The world doesn’t revolve around Liverpool you know. You don’t even know that it was designed in the UK.
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Does it revolve around remixes of obscure Bob Marley songs instead? Because I can't help but feel the market for t-shirt homages to a song no one even realised existed aren't actually big sellers.
 
whp.blue said:
have the Scousers patternted the number 96?
I understand 96 people dying at a football match is shocking but it is a number on a tee shirt get a grip ffs
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...and "Karma" and "What goes around comes back around"?

Not a reference to Heysel at all?

Come on mate.
 
Well, it’s been withdrawn as expected. 1996 is now officially not a real year, just in case.
My son has had a new city shirt for the last 12 years with 96 on it. Guess what year he was born?
Conspiracies about Kennedy and the moon landings are bad enough but conspiracies about football tragedies, really?
 
I wasn't suspicious about this until I heard the excuse. I can readily believe that they'd be incompetent enough to make an ill thought out tribute to the Hillsborough disaster, and cock it up to the point that it looks like an attack on it. But I can't believe that they would make a tribute to a 1996 remix to a Bob Marley song no-one has ever heard of, get the lyrics wrong, and not include a single recognizable reference to him. It's like someone in the marketing department realised they were in the shit and quickly googled anything that they could use as an excuse.
 
BigOscar said:
Does it revolve around remixes of obscure Bob Marley songs instead? Because I can't help but feel the market for t-shirt homages to a song no one even realised existed aren't actually big sellers.
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For those that live in the world of fashion and music it is perfectly reasonable. The designer may be a Japanese person, they design some proper weird shit. If we knew the actual designer was a male, 30 upwards, with a reasonable awareness of football and world events/recent history; then damn right i'd be thinking this is very dodgy. We don't though and the chances are it being a fashion item it was designed by some ditzy millenial twerp. Failing that a woman of 35, English would still probably not make the connection.

The design will get a cursory look over for overall appeal by a few people. What are the chances these are people with next to know knowledge of football in the context we are talking about. I suggest the chances this is a genuine coincidence are very high.

A lot of people like Bob Marley, to many imo as i think it is a load of shite, i digress. What i am trying to say is the world is a large varied weird place with so many who really will have little knowledge of the event if they are aware at all.
 
TCIB said:
For those that live in the world of fashion and music it is perfectly reasonable. The designer may be a Japanese person, they design some proper weird shit. If we knew the actual designer was a male, 30 upwards, with a reasonable awareness of football and world events/recent history; then damn right i'd be thinking this is very dodgy. We don't though and the chances are it being a fashion item it was designed by some ditzy millenial twerp. Failing that a woman of 35, English would still probably not make the connection.

The design will get a cursory look over for overall appeal by a few people. What are the chances these are people with next to know knowledge of football in the context we are talking about. I suggest the chances this is a genuine coincidence are very high.

A lot of people like Bob Marley, to many imo as i think it is a load of shite, i digress. What i am trying to say is the world is a large varied weird place with so many who really will have little knowledge of the event if they are aware at all.
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Come off it. No one is making a tribute to a terrible 90's dance remix of an obscure Bob Marley track that hit the dizzying heights of number 42 in the UK charts. Not only that but they've misquoted the title of the track and put Karma down the arm despite that line not actually even being in the shitty remix. Not to mention how fucking weird it would be to put the year of a track in big letters on a shirt styled inexplicably like a football shirt (note even the full year, just 96), but not any reference to Bob Marley (in red, the colour so synonymous with him of course). The white rose of Yorkshire is a lovely touch as well, as we all know how much bob loved Gods own county. Literally every detail on their is a dig at Liverpool

Choosing to believe this is just the worlds largest set of coincidences is beyond naïve
 
It did seem clumsy - if it is about a Bob Marley track they needed to explain it better but at the same time when I heard it I did think that if you can no longer use the colour red and the number 96 on the same page without a scouse backlash are they being too touchy?? I just don't know.
 
Irwell said:
Racist! There is nothing weird about tentacle porn!
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I thought i recognized that fella in a city top messing with the dirty knickers vending machines. The shame... how much are they?

BigOscar said:
Come off it. No one is making a tribute to a terrible 90's dance remix of an obscure Bob Marley track that hit the dizzying heights of number 42 in the UK charts. Not only that but they've misquoted the title of the track and put Karma down the arm despite that line not actually even being in the shitty remix. Not to mention how fucking weird it would be to put the year of a track in big letters on a shirt styled inexplicably like a football shirt (note even the full year, just 96), but not any reference to Bob Marley (in red, the colour so synonymous with him of course). The white rose of Yorkshire is a lovely touch as well, as we all know how much bob loved Gods own county. Literally every detail on their is a dig at Liverpool

Choosing to believe this is just the worlds largest set of coincidences is beyond naïve
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I can't say i believe or not, i simply do not know. If i look at it from the pov of a juror, could i be even pretty sure this was a deliberate act? I couldn't say that with any sense of certainty at all. I would need to know the designer, design and quality control process to have any educated objective opinion.
 
BigOscar said:
Come off it. No one is making a tribute to a terrible 90's dance remix of an obscure Bob Marley track that hit the dizzying heights of number 42 in the UK charts. Not only that but they've misquoted the title of the track and put Karma down the arm despite that line not actually even being in the shitty remix. Not to mention how fucking weird it would be to put the year of a track in big letters on a shirt styled inexplicably like a football shirt (note even the full year, just 96), but not any reference to Bob Marley (in red, the colour so synonymous with him of course). The white rose of Yorkshire is a lovely touch as well, as we all know how much bob loved Gods own county. Literally every detail on their is a dig at Liverpool

Choosing to believe this is just the worlds largest set of coincidences is beyond naïve
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You’ve made up your mind what it signifies. That’s fine. You won’t be told otherwise. Naieve as you call it on your high horse. In the real world though people who shop at Topman are probably what? Student age? Under 25 shall we say?

Do you think under 25’s are more aware about Hillsborough or Bob Marley?

Also would your piss be so boiled if it was a black or blue top with the same slogan?
 
TCIB said:
I thought i recognized that fella in a city top messing with the dirty knickers vending machines. The shame... how much are they?



I can't say i believe or not, i simply do not know. If i look at it from the pov of a juror, could i be even pretty sure this was a deliberate act? I couldn't say that with any sense of certainty at all. I would need to know the designer, design and quality control process to have any educated objective opinion.
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Well said
 
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