Loose fitting football shirts

claret59 · Post by **claret59** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 8:46 am

Watching James Tarkowski having his shirt pulled off his back by an opponent in front of a referee who was obviously of the opinion that, despite FA instructions to 'clamp down on this conduct, believed it was perfectly acceptable to do so, got me thinking as to why Burnley don't follow some other teams in the matter of having tight fitting shirts that are not so susceptible to being grabbed by the handful.
I may be wrong but this practice of tighter fitting shirts seems to have originated in Rugby League and has obviously been successful so a number of Football clubs have followed their example, and it seems to have worked in making it difficult to grab the shirt of an opponent when you cannot 'get a grip.'

Bullabill · Post by **Bullabill** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 9:06 am

Yeah, tight fitting shirts coated with Vaseline ought to do it.

Funkydrummer · Post by **Funkydrummer** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 9:40 am

I think they should follow the lead of the Peaky Blinders and sew razor blades into the material.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 9:42 am

I think tight fitting shirts might have a detrimental effect on the sale of replicas

claretblue · Post by **claretblue** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 9:42 am

wouldn't need to if refs applied the rules!

Jimmymaccer · Post by **Jimmymaccer** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 9:46 am

I’ve already got a tight fitting replica shirt!

piston broke · Post by **piston broke** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 9:50 am

I saw a comedy item on German tv where they had Velcro seams. Not a stupid idea.

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 10:11 am

Bullabill wrote:Yeah, tight fitting shirts coated with Vaseline ought to do it.

Ken monkou used to wear it on his arms. God knows where he was thinking of putting them

CoolClaret · Post by **CoolClaret** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 10:24 am

ClaretTony wrote:I think tight fitting shirts might have a detrimental effect on the sale of replicas

Could follow suit with rugby and have a lifelike replica and a standard 'cheaper' one that isn't skin tight - although not suggesting it to be made out of cotton with a thick collar and have claret & blue horizontal stripes....

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 6:13 pm

piston broke wrote:I saw a comedy item on German tv where they had Velcro seams. Not a stupid idea.

I have always thought that Velcro would provide the answer to shirt grabbing. Was not award it was already in action. Great stuff.

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 6:48 pm

It would be popular in the womens game I'm sure.

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 6:56 pm

I think a new rule allowing a player to stick the head on another who is pulling the shirt like we saw on Saturday should come in.

We could use VAR.

Over to the video referee............ Oh yes he was pulling his shirt like a girl. And now he's got a fat lip and it's a penalty.

k90bfc · Post by **k90bfc** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 7:24 pm

Keep the replicas,3XL,upwards!The older you get!

randomclaret2 · Post by **randomclaret2** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 7:28 pm

Aah...German comedy eh ?

timshorts · Post by **timshorts** » Tue Apr 03, 2018 1:57 pm

IanMcL wrote:I have always thought that Velcro would provide the answer to shirt grabbing. Was not award it was already in action. Great stuff.

How many weeks would it take Alli and the like to work out that you could pull your own shirt Velcro off to claim a penalty?

Funkydrummer · Post by **Funkydrummer** » Tue Apr 03, 2018 2:06 pm

As I posted yesterday, I was at Wigan Warriors and whilst there I paid a visit to
their club shop.

If you want loose fitting shirts, then that's the place to go. I picked one up and it was an
8XL.

It was like a blinkin' awning.

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Tue Apr 03, 2018 4:48 pm

timshorts wrote:How many weeks would it take Alli and the like to work out that you could pull your own shirt Velcro off to claim a penalty?

Fingerprints it is then!

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Tue Apr 03, 2018 5:05 pm

What about shirts with no arms. That would rid us of handballs too. Obviously keep arms for goalkeeper shirts

Bigvince · Post by **Bigvince** » Tue Apr 03, 2018 5:10 pm

Surely,the baggier the shirt, the easier it is for the ref to spot it being pulled

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