{"id":629454,"date":"2026-04-25T06:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629454\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:32:11","slug":"man-who-spent-40k-on-football-kits-says-england-shirt-overpriced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629454\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who spent \u00a340k on football kits says England shirt overpriced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Motherby said in the 1980s replica kits were aimed squarely at children, but had become more popular among adults from the early 90s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Talking about international kits, he said: &#8220;In the 90s you could pick up a replica shirt for about \u00a330, whereas now they&#8217;re about \u00a380 to \u00a390, which certainly seems ahead of inflation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are alternatives. I remember when I was a kid there was a real stigma to wearing old shirts &#8211; that stigma doesn&#8217;t exist any more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With the World Cup coming up, people might get kudos for wearing an old, classic shirt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You can pick up some bargains and some classic England shirts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Motherby started collecting replica shirts after watching his first Hull City game when he was six.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he said his hobby moved to another level when he realised he could buy genuine shirts worn by players during matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A game can&#8217;t happen without two kits that distinguish the sides, and when you realise you can collect those, you think, I&#8217;m actually collecting pieces of a club&#8217;s history.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motherby said in the 1980s replica kits were aimed squarely at children, but had become more popular among&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-629454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}