Campaign against the premature footballerisation of children

[Swedington]

Quite a few folk dress their babies and young children in full Man U kit, including boots. Not only is the kit manufactured in China, it is 100% synthetic.

This is wrong.

[Swedington]

FunnyLittleFrog - excellent idea about the appliqueed cat's bum mouth on Mini-Boden. Perhaps their lovely spotty tissue paper could be secured with a cat's bum sticker..... thank you for shopping at Boden in association with cat's bum face Mumsnet?

[LadyPeterWimsey]

I needed a laugh.

[Iklboo]

Rugby rules - though I prefer Union and I live 1/2 a mile from a league ground so I get more from the in-laws

[TheOldestCat]

All good points. DH often wishes his elder brother had supported Man United rather than inflicting the comedy rollercoaster that being a Man City fan entails on him. But he continues to attempt to brainwash DD into supporting Cit-eh. It's a mystery.

Me, I love rugby. But I am a Welshie.

[FunnyLittleFrog]

They could applique it on all Mini-Boden stuff.

[FunnyLittleFrog]

"The approval sticker should show a cat's bum mouth & the mumsnet logo."

PMSL!

[GetOrfMoiLand]

One of the joyful things about DP is that he can't be arsed with football. He watches some matches in a half arsed fashion, like he watched the FA cup Man U match on Saturday. Bless him he kept getting confused because he doesn't know all the rules of football, dd had to explain what was going on at some points.

I LOATHE football fandom and would absilutely not ever have a relationship with someone who religiously followed football. It is bad enough going to work on a Monday morning and listening to all the blokes carp on about the game as if it is important.

DD loves it though, and always has, both playing and watching (many Saturday and Sunday mornings spent watching matches and cheering from sidelines even though (a) I don't know what is going on and (b) I don't care). My brother is a pro football coach as well so football is in the family

DD suports Bradford City (why? I don't know) and has a strip with her NAME on the back. It is vile, and vile colours (amber and burgundy stripes fgs). I will not let her wear it socially, she wears it when training.

Agree real fandom is mental illness.

[OrmIrian]

Oh I am with you 100%!

Dh tried to brainwash our DC into supporting his team. But none of them are interested. DS#1 pretends to care but it comes across as a bit patronising TBH

I personally think fanatical football support is a form of mental illness. And no-one would truly want their children to share that .

[tiredemma]

Ill sign up. Football is shite. Rugby is the game.

[TheOldestCat]

Dressing your child in any United garb is plain wrong.

hides DD's City shirt

[Swedington]

And children would turn to their parents in shops and say : "Please may I have these school shoes, Mummy?They do have the Mumsnet cat's bum mouth."

[Swedington]

Lol at campaign to stop campaigns. Perhaps mumsnet need to appoint a police force so that each product for sale in the uk can be vetted and declared as having gained the mumsnet seal of approval; like a Richard & judy good read. The approval sticker should show a cat's bum mouth & the mumsnet logo.

[FunnyLittleFrog]

A campaign to stop campaigns would be good.

[PooCrumbsInYourBed]

swedington you are ON FIRE lolo

[Bonsoir]

[Swedington]

And I'd like go see a campaign to stop retailers selling products.

[Bonsoir]

Can we have a campaign to ban WAGs, my particular bugbear at the moment?

[Swedington]

Arsenal and fairy? why? Woolworths were clearly dazzled by the success of pick n mix.

[FunnyLittleFrog]

There's a very good reason why Woolworths went under.

What did they sell? Vinyl, sweets and... tat like the Arsenal Fairy.

[Swedington]

I'm sure a mumsnet campaign to ban poofs will be along in just a minute.

[glasjam]

Hassled - those outfits are horrific!!! I have never seen the like of them and hope I never do. Imagine being the daughter of someone who would buy you that?!

[WingedVictory]

An Arsenal Fairy?! Are they mad? Or just ripping the piss out of parents and their children? £14.99 for that? I'd rather dress a child in a bin bag.

[FunnyLittleFrog]

WORRYING

[Iklboo]

You'll like this - neither DH or I like football. FIL & BILs keep asking DH if he 'saw the match/is he watching the match'. DH keeps replying he'd rather eat his own testicles than watch 'fubble'.
FIL announced last year that we'd have to start letting DS watch 'fubble' or 'he'd grow up to be a poof'

[DarrellRivers]

noooooooooooo [in the style of goooooal]
hassled, put those away