Rangers fans tricked into buying Dundee socks?

[BlueStar]

Seen this posted on several football forums recently, but never with a link to the original forum the prank was supposedly pulled on. Sounds very much to me like the kind of legend that goes around every now and again with the names of the teams changed depending on who's telling it.

Celtic fan signs up on a Rangers forum, makes a couple of posts and no-one is any the wiser he's a Celtic fan.

Then he makes a thread saying

Turns out, there's no such database and all these stupid Rangers fans have ended up with hundreds of pairs of Dundee United socks and no match tickets

I've got to take my hat off to him, what a prank

[Andrew of Ware]

Meeting of the marketing department at Dundee United.

'OK. We have 10,000 pairs of unsold socks in our club shop - and with the change of kit next season... I know. Rangers are visiting us in a fortnights time, so why don't we...?'

[Jay Tea]

'Never by socks from a football shop, they shaft you every time'

[Grievous Angel]

Doubt it really happened. I've seen it posted with an Aberdeen fan doing the prank. I also don't think that a club shop would operate a shift system: "Give it a few hours until there's a shift change."

I've googled it and, as the OP says, it's never the alleged original prank that can be found, just the retellings of the story.

As an aside, there was news stories in the local newspaper here in Tayside about Rangers fans phoning up Dundee United posing as United fans in order to try and get tickets, but when challenged they couldn't answer the most basic questions about United.