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Your favourite shirt

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about 12 years ago

Been looking at favourite spurs shirts on the fighting cock and wondered what other YF posters regard as their favourite shirts.

1973 Spurs shirt - white, emblem, nothing else.  Very classic


1995 Newcastle shirt - Newcastle Brown Ale as sponsor. Just seems so right!



Yours?

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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about 12 years ago

I've got that one . Offers considered 


Founder

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about 12 years ago


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about 12 years ago

2006 Roma shirt that I kick myself every day that I didn't buy:

This season's clean Roma shirt produced in-house (because they broke their contract with Kappa with a year to run) that will forever be a classic:

And my all-time fave - Italia at USA '94:


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about 12 years ago

1970 Peru shirt


Coventry's chocolate brown shirt

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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about 12 years ago

+ West Ham 86 shirts

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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about 12 years ago

Not my favourite, but this is one which sticks in my mind, Partick Thistle away shirt 2009/10.


Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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about 12 years ago

Shirtless can be good.

"At the end of the drive the lawmen arrive...

I'll take my chance because luck is on my side or something...

Her name is Rio, she don't need to understand...

Oh Rio, Rio, hear them shout across the land..."

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about 12 years ago · edited about 12 years ago · History


Charlton Athletic FA Cup runners-up kit, Wembley 1946

(My grand dad was at the game, no doubt well lubricated on free Guinness since he worked for them)


FA Cup winners kit, Wembley 1947

(The year Charlton won the Cup and my grand dad was probably missing for weeks. Also the year the triumphant Charlton manager Jimmy Seed dropped the Cup  whilst taking it around to show people in his car boot and had it patched up at a local Charlton garage - apparently you can still see the weld marks  - what a bunch of scallywags!)


Charlton Athletic 1997- 2000 home shirt. I have a cheap Asian replica of this from 1998 which is amazingly strong and still in very good nick after wearing it a lot. The shirt worn the season Charlton won promotion to the Premier League for the first time in what is widely considered the best play-off final of all time 4-4 v Sunderland May 25 1998: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Football_League_First_Division_play-off_Final (My grandfather was toasting them from the grave for this one).

Highlights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHFkFqVcFGo


"The Undertakers' Shirt"  or "The Black Shirt of Doom" v Arsenal 4/11/01:


Worn in the legendary 4-2 away win against one of the best Arsenal sides of all time (Bergkamp, Henry, Pires, Vieira etc.) who completed the domestic double, winning the Premier League by a seven-point margin, were unbeaten away from home and managed the unique feat of scoring in every league game. They lost only three times in the division and this was the biggest home defeat in Wenger's reign.

Arsenal used to be Charlton's neighbours in south east London in the 1900's until they hit financial problems and moved to north London in 1913. Named after Woolwich Arsenal munitions factory which is next to Charlton. Charlton were the local scallywags team formed by some 15-17 year-old boys in 1905 who rose to become the biggest side in south east London after Arsenal did a runner in 1913. The history adds bite to any Charlton - Arsenal London derby.

Never as big a club as Arsenal until the 1930's when Charlton first gained promotion to Div. One in 1936 and the Valley became the biggest capacity ground in England (crowds of up to 70,000). Secured promotion to the First Division by beating local rivals West Ham in front of 41,254 fans at the Valley, with their valiant centre-half John Oakes playing on despite concussion and a broken nose.

In 1937, Charlton finished runners up in the First Division, in 1938 finished fourth and 1939 finished third. They were the most consistent team in the top flight of English football over the three seasons immediately before the Second World War. This continued during the war years and they won the "war" cup and appeared in finals. So from 1936 to 1956 Charlton were a club of similar stature to the big guns like Arsenal , appearing in the first two post-war Cup Finals and winning it in 1947.

Highlights of the classic 4-2 win Highbury 2001 (love how the arrogant Sky commentators start off crowing over Arsenal when they score early but soon have to eat crow!!!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysza-wsuzfc


Big Pete 65, Christchurch

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about 12 years ago · edited about 12 years ago · History

The England shirt of the early 80's. It actually looks a bit rubbish now, sort of like a uniform for a double-glazing firm, but it was dead sparkly when I was a kid. Also not a bad team there.

off the top of me head - please correct. L-R  Watson, Thompson, Clemance, Hoddle, Anderson, Brooking.

                                                               Mcdermott, Keegan, Woodcock???, Wilkins, Mick Mills.



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about 12 years ago

Cool shirt, would love to see them play!

Kotahitanga. We are one.

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about 12 years ago · edited about 12 years ago · History


Portland Timber's third kit. Sexy as hell.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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about 12 years ago
ForteanTimes wrote:

The England shirt of the early 80's. It actually looks a bit rubbish now, sort of like a uniform for a double-glazing firm, but it was dead sparkly when I was a kid. Also not a bad team there.

off the top of me head - please correct. L-R  Watson, Thompson, Clemance, Hoddle, Anderson, Brooking.

                                                               Mcdermott, Keegan, Woodcock???, Wilkins, Mick Mills.


Yes, Tony Woodcock.



If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid

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about 12 years ago
ForteanTimes wrote:

The England shirt of the early 80's. It actually looks a bit rubbish now, sort of like a uniform for a double-glazing firm, but it was dead sparkly when I was a kid. Also not a bad team there.

off the top of me head - please correct. L-R  Watson, Thompson, Clemance, Hoddle, Anderson, Brooking.

                                                               Mcdermott, Keegan, Woodcock???, Wilkins, Mick Mills.



 Several England players of that era, including from that photo Brooking, Keegan and Anderson played in NZ (Keegan in a series of exhibition games v the All Whites in 1985 after retiring from club football, Brooking for Auckland University in our National League 1984, Anderson for England B in five matches in NZ 1985 v NZ, Otago and Christchurch Utd).
Bryan Robson played for Sunderland v NZ, Auckland 30/5/76
Other England players of that era played in NZ for England B in 1978 - Paul Mariner (also returned in the 1980's to play for North Shore in the National League & married an Aucklander), Joe Corrigan (England B goalie 1978). Glenn Hoddle and Graham Rix played for England B v NZ in London 1979.
Terry Butcher, Paul Mariner & Alan Brazil played for Ipswich Town v NZ, Ipswich 1979
Ray Wilkins' brother Dean played for North Shore in our National League 1980's (former QPR, Brighton player, current Reading first team coach).  

Big Pete 65, Christchurch

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about 12 years ago
patrick478 wrote:


Portland Timber's third kit. Sexy as hell.

Interesting that the Sponsor's name is in a club colour and the font is different from its corporate brand.
I've flown Alaska once - a very good experience - it used to be rated one of the better USA airlines.

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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about 12 years ago
Frankie Mac wrote:

1970 Peru shirt




You're anyone's for a sash

Normo's coming home

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about 12 years ago


You cant beat a classic

"Who ate all the pies"

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about 12 years ago
james dean wrote:
Frankie Mac wrote:

1970 Peru shirt




You're anyone's for a sash

If I had my way, all football teams would look like Miss World contestants.

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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about 12 years ago
Junior82 wrote:
patrick478 wrote:


Portland Timber's third kit. Sexy as hell.

Interesting that the Sponsor's name is in a club colour and the font is different from its corporate brand.

I've flown Alaska once - a very good experience - it used to be rated one of the better USA airlines.

The entire kit is a nod back to the Timber's kit from the 1970's, so Alaska agreed to let the Timber's use the version of their logo that was in use in the 70's too. All in all, it combines for a sexy kit that isn't ruined by the sponsor logo. Fantastic.

Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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about 12 years ago

1991/92 home shirt


 

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about 12 years ago

certainly not the new sweaties shirt


 

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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about 12 years ago


England Away Kit 2006

"At the end of the drive the lawmen arrive...

I'll take my chance because luck is on my side or something...

Her name is Rio, she don't need to understand...

Oh Rio, Rio, hear them shout across the land..."

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about 12 years ago


Three for me, and two for them.

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