Kick Off Merchants Blog

After 3 weeks of scintillating competition, the Beer Mat World Cup came to its end yesterday. you, the people have been voting in your thousands. It started with 144 beer mats and ended with just one. And the winner is… Our Rocky & Wrighty beer mat is part of our classic Arsenal set. In the final it beat Everton’s Dixie Dean. Dean led from the kick off on Saturday. But a late surge on Sunday evening saw Rocky & Wrighty take the inaugural Beer Mat World Cup crown. Thank you to everyone that took part and our full beer mat collection are still...

For the home bar ownerFootball Beer Mats - £12 Our bespoke beer mats have been a best seller this year. They make a perfect gift for any fan that has built their own home bar during lockdown. Look great framed too. For Secret SantaBottle Openers - from £6 We celebrate some of your teams classic kits and greatest moments with our heavyweight stainless steel bottle openers. All 144 of our bespoke beer mats have been turned into stainless steel bottle shaped bar blades. A perfect addition to any home bar! For the first timerMy First Match Mug - £15 Celebrate a...

Christmas Jumper Day is Friday 10th December. Yes, that might seem a long way in the future - over two weeks. But for small retailers like ourselves we need to be ready. We do not hold warehouses of stock. We can not afford to. To enable us to offer a wide variety of designs, colours and sizes we self print. This means that when you make an order, we need to get in the right sizes and colour and then print and dispatch. This is why it usually takes us around 10 days to dispatch clothing. This allows us to...

Before there was Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, there was Pele and Maradona. It was a debate that happened well before Twitter was a concept. There was no argument that they were the two best players of all time; but who was the best? In the Pele camp you had the likes of Dutch legend Johan Cruyff . Cruyff stated; "Pelé was the only footballer who surpassed the boundaries of logic." Hungary star Ferenc Puskás stated; "The greatest player in history was Di Stéfano. I refuse to classify Pelé as a player. He was above that." 1966 FIFA World Cup-winning captain Bobby...

Hello and happy Friday. The clocks go backwards this weekend, the nights are drawing in and the big fella in red and white will soon be coming down the chimney. Is it too early to start speaking about Christmas? In a normal year I would say yes. But this year is not normal. Every retailer is going to struggle this year with their supply chain so our advice is buy early so as to not be dissapointed. Take our Football Bottle Openers for example. We have very few left of all designs and have had an order in for a couple...