Top Man t-shirt sparks outrage

[johnmc]

You are interested in the price of dirty knickers from vending machines too?

About as funny as gout

 

[Tricky Dickys Right Foot Shot]

Seems way OTT.

The intention wasn't about Hillsborough, and only a few people interpreted it as a relation to Hillsborough.
When I first was shown a picture of it I didn't instantly think of Hillsborough.
It was a massive tragedy we all know this, we're reminded about it every year, and those who covered it up are now beginning to pay the price for what happened.... but now it's time to move on as a community.

Whenever the numbers 96 show up it shouldn't be automatically related to Hillsborough. They sell Munich shirts with a picture of Munich in snow online, you don't see United fans demanding blood.

 

[Ricster]

Named after a Bob Marley song.
They use the re-release date instead of the original date? Bollocks.
They use the word Karma because it appearsin the same song? Bollocks.
They use a red shirt for Bob Marley? Bollocks.
And why a rose within the 96? Its absolute bollocks!

If you google for Bob Marley merchandise what colour is it usually on? Not RED!

Topman have over stepped the line, or should i say one individual.

Edit* if you do google Bob Marley Clothing youll pass over 100 images before you find a full red Bob tee.
I dont buy it ir the shirt

 

[FantasyIreland]

I immediately associated it with the disaster.I find it very difficult to see how anyone wouldn't.

 

[The blue phantom]

A shirt in red with a big 96 on the back and karma on the sleeve and you can't understand why they are upset?
96 football supporters never came back from a match, & you think it's "karma"
It's design may or may not have been deliberate, but the potential is there and clearly so.

Correct. And to me theres no doubt it's been done deliberately.

 

[PragueBlue]

I immediately associated it with the disaster.I find it very difficult to see how anyone wouldn't.

To be honest if I walked past a shop window window with the shirt in it, I wouldn't have associated it with Liverpool at all. I would have just thought that it's a bit of an ugly shirt. However, once somebody points it out, it does seem rather too much of a coincidence.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Do you mean we can't use 69 as us winning the cup that year made Lineker cry?

I used to have a Kinkladze t-shirt with kinky 69 on the back.

 

[sir baconface]

I used to have a Kinkladze t-shirt with kinky 69 on the back.

Is it a Bob Marley tribute?

 

[whp.blue]

I immediately associated it with the disaster.I find it very difficult to see how anyone wouldn't.

When Anelka wore the 39 shirt did you immediately think of Heysel?

 

[aguero93:20]

...and "Karma" and "What goes around comes back around"?

Not a reference to Heysel at all?

Come on mate.

Maybe if it said "what goes around comes back around x 2.461538461538461".

 

[aguero93:20]

When Anelka wore the 39 shirt did you immediately think of Heysel?

My first thoughts were "why couldn't he pick a decent squad number the silly ****?".

 

[East Level 2]

When Anelka wore the 39 shirt did you immediately think of Heysel?

Heysel was done, dusted and sorted - at least as much as it ever would be, well before Anelka chose shirt 39.
Hillsborough was in the public eye for around 25 years.

 

[FantasyIreland]

When Anelka wore the 39 shirt did you immediately think of Heysel?

I dont see the comparison,at all.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Does this make anyone think of the bbc's attack on Pete the Badge, in a similar fashion?

Thought about it for a few seconds, and now you mention it...... no.

 

[abu13]

I don't see a candle whats the problem ?

 

[chaddblue]

I immediately associated it with the disaster.I find it very difficult to see how anyone wouldn't.

Me too

 

[blueinsa]

I immediately associated it with the disaster.I find it very difficult to see how anyone wouldn't.

Most would mate.

 

[inchy14]

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?

My lad was born in ‘96, can I get a refund now.

 

[Stuuuuuu]

Call me cynical but I find it hard to believe someone thought "Im going to make a t-shirt about a song called 'what goes around' and make 90% of the design the year it was released".

Bob Marley released a song in 1996?