Kick Off Merchants Blog

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...

Update 14/12/202: Due to snow and strikes, Royal Mail have altered their "last post before Christmas" date. 1st class: Friday 16 December (was Monday 19 December)2nd class: Monday 12 December (was Friday 16 December) As a small business, the majority of our products were made to order. We will do our best to get your items out, but in same cases this will be impossible. We are very sorry that the move of last post dates might mean you do not receive your Christmas gifts, but hope you understand that this was due to circumstances beyond our control. We will still...

This year we are offering  3 for 2 mix'n'match on all BAR PARAPHERNALIA. Included in the offer: Beer Mats Bottle Openers Bar Runners Coasters Beer Mat Prints Enter the code BlackFriday2022 at checkout!!!   Offer ends midnight Saturday 26 November 2022Cannot combined with any other offerCheapest item free

So England are relegated from the League A groups of the Nations League. Wales were also relegated from League A to League B, whilst Scotland secured their promotion to League A. But does it really matter? For me, it is a no. Even when England made "Finals Week" in 2019 and 2021, I was not overly bothered. For me the Nations League is no more than a friendly tournament, with the aim of trying to get the bigger teams playing each other more regularly in friendlies for increased TV revenue. I actually think that relegation to League B could also be...