MU Personalized Shirts !!

The new claim seeks to exploit a recent amendment to competition law that allows consumers to seek individual redress from the competition appeals tribunal on a no-fee basis.

In the first case of its kind lawyers will seek to recover £15-£20 on every England and Manchester United shirt purchased from relevant retailers during the two seasons covered by the OFT ruling, though they have not yet finalised which retailers they will target.

Mark Warrington, a competition lawyer at Clyde & Co, said: "We are trying to pull together people who purchased England or Man United personalized shirts in the relevant period to make a claim on the grounds that had it not been for the fact a cartel was in operation the shirts would have been significantly cheaper."

Warrington accepted that it was unusual for a solicitor to advertise for claimants, but said it was the only way of identifying those who may have been affected.