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Schoolboy Toon fans are refusing to wear their new rucksacks after the wrong club’s name was printed on a zip.

The blunder made by Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct company saw ‘Fulham’ in white writing stamped on the bags and left TJ Hall, eight, and Jamie Lumsley, nine, outraged.

TJ’s mum Stacey Bone, 25, said: “They were not happy at all. They turned around to me straight away and said, ‘Is this a fake?’

“I said no, I paid £9 for each one from Sports Direct.

“They just said they weren’t happy because Fulham was on it and they wouldn’t use it.

“Considering Sports Direct’s owner Mike Ashley also owns Newcastle United I think it’s terrible.

“You can see it straight away that one part says Newcastle and one part says Fulham.”

The mix-up on the rucksack means that the main section of the bag has the Newcastle United logo printed on but the zips pull-cords say the name of London club Fulham.

Sports Direct said they were aware of the error, had apologised, and have offered a replacement bag.

It comes a year after fans rounded on Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley after Glasgow Rangers training macs appeared on the club’s official online shop.

Raincoats branded with the Rangers Football Club logo and sponsor Blackthorn cider were for sale at www.nufcdirect.com alongside Newcastle strips and kit.

Within hours of them appearing on the website there calls from fans on the club’s supporter forums for the coats to be taken down and the £39.99 jackets were swiftly removed.

Stacey, from Coleridge Square, Hebburn, in South Tyneside, whose partner’s son is Jamie, said she’d bought the bags in time for the boys to start their first weeks back at school but just couldn’t convince them to use them because of their dedicated to NUFC.

She said: “When I told Sports Direct they said because I’d ordered it online I couldn’t even take them back the shop.

“I had to send it back to them, then it would be investigated and they would send a refund.

“Everything we have for them has Newcastle United on.

“Their bedrooms are all Newcastle United. Their pencil cases for school say Newcastle United and we’re going for their new shirts soon.”