Miked - lol I was thinking the same thing, I say that article the other day and how there are no problems...

Danny, maybe an option could be something they do here in On, Canada for beer. We have 2 companies that can only sell beer, benefit is that you can get any type of beer including both Portuguese beers, and random stuff you would never find if beer was just sold at a regular shop. Maybe they have to regulate how merchandise is sold. If you want to sell jerseys you have to have all of the teams in stock anywhere in the country. (this wouldn't count for the shops in each team.

This away if your a traveling away fan you can still pick up your team's jersey somewhere in town.

The other option to help teams would be to have earlier start times + blackout all games in the local area to get people to the stadiums.

Beira mar has one of the nicer stadiums in portugal and its unfortunate that they are going through this, I think it has to do with the fact that you must be either a porto benfica or sporting fan regardless of where you are in portugal. Beiramar could do a little better marketing however, I been all over aveiro and their stadium and couldnt even find a jersey of theirs to buy.

It so sad to see a club like Beira-Mar in a problem like this. One thing is for sure I don't want to see this club go through bankruptcy and get moved down to like a third or fourth division like Estrela Amadora, Boavista etc.

I know every club faces debt but hopefully things get better quickly!