Castore were reportedly forced to send out Rangers kits in bags without the club logo after claims that thousands were sabotaged while out for delivery to supporters by courier company Hermes.
Hermes launched a probe into the issue while the Ibrox club’s kit manufacturer offered a refund to those who were affected. But choosing to despatch the strips in packaging without the Rangers logo looks to have created a new problem, leaving the Liverpool-based company - who signed a five-year deal with the Light Blues - with quite a few spare bags.
And Newcastle United fans reckon Castore, run by brothers Tom and Phil Beahon, might just have discovered a solution for any excess packaging. The English Premier League side agreed a deal with the Merseyside company to produce their strip and some Magpies supporters have taken to social media to post images of their new kit arriving in RANGERS-branded bags.
One, sharing a picture a bag with the Gers ‘Follow Follow’ slogan and the Ibrox club’s crest on the bag wrote on Twitter: “@NUFC tops arrived today. Was worried that #castore had sent out the wrong strips before opening.” Another, showing the Rangers crest on the despatch note, asked: “Anyone else’s Newcastle shirt come from Rangers Football Club?”
Castore have come in for some criticism from Rangers fans since their deal which banked the Ibrox club around £4 million in their first season but were forced to apologise early on over quality control issues.
Commercial chief James Bisgrove addressed some of the issues at the time and said: “The first year of the partnership had some fantastic highs but also threw up some challenges,” later adding at the club’s AGM “I think it hasn’t been perfect, particularly at the beginning when we came out of Covid and there were certain issues with customer service.”
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