Your retro football top is likely your prized asset. It’s your comfort blanket, something you can wrap yourself in at night and make all the bad things go away. It’s your everything. But rapper Loyle Carner wants it. And he’s willing to trade you tickets to his sold-out shows for your prized shirt too.
This new form of trading began when a fan offered Carner a Sweden shirt from 1990, in exchange for tickets:
Very tempting offer. For any1 else looking to get on Guestlist for this tour, this is how. I'll swap 2 tickets for a L vintage footy top. https://t.co/yg36sPbRS7
— Loyle (@LoyleCarner) September 25, 2017
And from then, the bartering began in earnest. The Mercury Music Prize nominated artist realised there was a clear gap in the market here. And he could get some seriously vintage footy clobber off the back of it. Fans were then offering him some of these little classics:
@LoyleCarner 97/98 Bayern away (L) for 2 Brixton tickets?? We missed u at bestival !! pic.twitter.com/ThLchFRggQ
— Jack O'Keefe (@jackokeefe97) September 26, 2017
@LoyleCarner 1994 Liverpool away kit for guesties in Bristol pic.twitter.com/IqgPpSLEWt
— Jake Landon (@JacobLandon17) September 25, 2017
@LoyleCarner got an England 1990 World Cup Finals Retro Third Shirt for a couple Notts tickets? pic.twitter.com/yKgQ2Ec8y8
— nathan (@nathan_sayers) September 25, 2017
All of which were duly accepted by Carner AKA the Del Boy of his new retro football shirts empire. He even threw in the offer of a free beer with the tickets for the England blue kit (which if you ask us, deserves to be a crate of free beer for that particular gem of a shirt):
Mate, If this is a large I'll throw in a pint https://t.co/LegCcJ1ft1
— Loyle (@LoyleCarner) September 25, 2017
What has Carner begun though? In an uncertain economic future, will retro football shirts become a valid form of currency? When society collapses, and your family is starving, will you be forced to pay for bread with your treasured 1988 Marco van Basten Holland shirt? Is this the dystopian nightmare future we’re sleepwalking into?
If so, then Loyle Carner will be the president of this new world order. Because at the moment, he’s holding all the shirts. It might be getting all too much for him now though:
Haha this has gotten so out of hand. https://t.co/GJyZBSEGSI
— Loyle (@LoyleCarner) September 27, 2017
Loyle, if the offers of all these shirts is a burden now, we’d be happy to help you out. We have tickets for some sold-out Chas & Dave gigs coming up, that we’d be happy to exchange for a few of your newly-acquired shirts…
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