Kick Off Merchants Blog

Honestly, I hate the January transfer window. Every year it seems to drag on longer as Sky Sports (and other media news outlets) start their coverage earlier. I think this year they started their countdown in November. Up there with your local supermarket selling Easter Eggs in January. In 2013, Arsene Wenger floated the idea of scrapping the January transfer window. His theory also included closing the summer window before a ball was kicked in the Premier League. The idea was that you get your first team squad before the season starts, and that is what you have to work...

It's bloody cold out there! At the beginning of the year, we tracked all our new product launches for the entire 12 months. Fleece blankets were something we had planned, with a launch date of October 2023. Then this current cold spell came. Over the last 4 days, our team have worked hard to sort out the designs and get a full range of retro kit fleece blankets up on the store. With over 100 designs available for all your favourite clubs, our fleece blankets are perfect to keep you warm and cosy during these cold evenings. Manufactured using a...

One thing we did back end of 2022 was create a LinkedIn business page. We felt this was a huge step in turning us from a start-up company into a SME business.  The page will be used to share our latest product launches, our successes, and industry news. There will also be discount codes posted exclusively to the page which will be put up on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.  We will also be starting football discussions on the page. Many of you sit on LinkedIn for many hours a day (especially those in recruitment!) so why not give our page a...

Happy New Year to everyone! It might still be a bank holiday, but Kick Off Merchants is a buzz of activity as we begin clearing orders made between Christmas and New Year. There are no scheduled Royal Mail strikes (yet) so we hope anything that was caught up in the pre-Christmas backlog gets delivered this week. International orders may take a little longer. We have plenty planned for 2023, and during the Christmas break (nearly called it "the international break") we designed and launched our retro kit phone wallet cases. We already had a hugely popular collection of retro kit...

Thank you to everyone that has ordered in the last couple of weeks, and throughout the year.   The snow and strikes caused last minute changes to Royal Mail's "last post before Christmas" and further headaches for us.   We have done our best to get as much out as we can. We have a few remaining clothing orders that will go out this week via other couriers.   If you do not receive your order due to the postal issues, we are very sorry but it is circumstances beyond our control. We are still a small business and have...