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Post by Floyds on Apr 20, 2023 15:10:05 GMT 1
I got an England kit with the sew on badges for the 1986 Mexico World Cup, when I was 5. From the sports shop at the top of Town, near to where the old Woods music shop was (I think!). O'Neills ? Yeah I thought it was O'Neills, but then googled it and saw that it's in Crosland Moor. Might actually have got the kit from Sovereign, used to live just along the road from it. Can't believe it's/he's still going strong.... |
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Post by themanfromatlantis on Apr 20, 2023 15:32:02 GMT 1
If you said to the kids that it was Mannequin modelling the shirts, they’d ask which European club did we get him from… |
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Post by themanfromatlantis on Apr 20, 2023 15:32:49 GMT 1
Yeah I thought it was O'Neills, but then googled it and saw that it's in Crosland Moor. Might actually have got the kit from Sovereign, used to live just along the road from it. Can't believe it's/he's still going strong.... But it also pleases you that they are… |
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Post by themanfromatlantis on Apr 20, 2023 15:36:27 GMT 1
86 England full kit from grandparents. Well it was one of those kits in the boxes from the market. I remember them well. As a misguided 7 year old glory-hunting Liverpool "fan" in 1988, I remember telling all my school mates I was getting the full kit for my birthday. Imagine my disappointment when I turned up to Clifton Rangers Under 8s training the next week proudly wearing my new kit, to be met with comments like "That's not the real kit, the badge looks sewn on" and "why is there no sponsor's or manufacturer's label on your kit?" Made immeasurably worse when a kid then arrived wearing the real deal. We were poor but even my tight yorkshireman fatha had to relent and get me the genuine top when I came home in tears! Next few kits after that were all town, I saw the light after my 1st town game (3-3 at home V Forest in the league Cup, circa 1989??) My first was a greenalls home shirt if I remember correctly. Did your Dad ever mutter the words peer pressure & bloody kids, under his breath? 😉 |
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Post by Captainslapper on Apr 20, 2023 15:45:28 GMT 1
Leeds circa 1977...  I briefly wondered whether your take on Pritchard was the worst thing I'd seen on here. If it was, it isn't now!  Did it burn your skin? Thinking about it, I actually had the home and the yellow away one! Its nothing 40 years of counselling hasnt been able to put right.  |
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Post by Chips Longhorn on Apr 20, 2023 15:50:35 GMT 1
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Post by westislandterrier on Apr 20, 2023 16:01:29 GMT 1
I played in goals in primary school and football strips in The Whisky Isle were like gold dust back then - but a guy with a bit of influence got me a 1981/82 Celtic goalkeepers jersey like the one worn by Packie Bonner...
It was yellow with black shoulder and sleeves and the elbows area had square padding and I used to squeeze them squares lots and lots and lots - and with strips being like gold dust I just wore it and never played in it and was the envy of the village - even The Gers contingent !
The only strips that were on The West Island then were two lads that’s mother originally was from there and living in Houston near Paisley they came kitted out in St. Mirren kits - it was so impressive back then seeing footy tops and shorts live in the flesh even if it was just folks on holiday -
My first Huddersfield Town top was The Panasonic home one from around 1995 or thereabouts !
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Post by Sparrow on Apr 20, 2023 16:16:23 GMT 1
86 England full kit from grandparents. Well it was one of those kits in the boxes from the market. I remember them well. As a misguided 7 year old glory-hunting Liverpool "fan" in 1988, I remember telling all my school mates I was getting the full kit for my birthday. Imagine my disappointment when I turned up to Clifton Rangers Under 8s training the next week proudly wearing my new kit, to be met with comments like "That's not the real kit, the badge looks sewn on" and "why is there no sponsor's or manufacturer's label on your kit?" Made immeasurably worse when a kid then arrived wearing the real deal. We were poor but even my tight yorkshireman fatha had to relent and get me the genuine top when I came home in tears! Next few kits after that were all town, I saw the light after my 1st town game (3-3 at home V Forest in the league Cup, circa 1989??) My first was a greenalls home shirt if I remember correctly. That was also my first Town match. My dad clapped for the first Forest goal due to it being a good goal. I hit him over the hands with my rolled up program and told him not to clap them. He was stunned that I'd hit him with my program, but smiled as he realised my passion was lit |
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Post by space hardware on Apr 20, 2023 17:02:31 GMT 1
I remember them well. As a misguided 7 year old glory-hunting Liverpool "fan" in 1988, I remember telling all my school mates I was getting the full kit for my birthday. Imagine my disappointment when I turned up to Clifton Rangers Under 8s training the next week proudly wearing my new kit, to be met with comments like "That's not the real kit, the badge looks sewn on" and "why is there no sponsor's or manufacturer's label on your kit?" Made immeasurably worse when a kid then arrived wearing the real deal. We were poor but even my tight yorkshireman fatha had to relent and get me the genuine top when I came home in tears! Next few kits after that were all town, I saw the light after my 1st town game (3-3 at home V Forest in the league Cup, circa 1989??) My first was a greenalls home shirt if I remember correctly. That was also my first Town match. My dad clapped for the first Forest goal due to it being a good goal. I hit him over the hands with my rolled up program and told him not to clap them. He was stunned that I'd hit him with my program, but smiled as he realised my passion was lit A 30 yard Tommy Gaynor thunderbastard, I remember it well. Their third, by Nigel Clough, was also a brilliant hit. |
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Post by overtonterrierspirit on Apr 20, 2023 17:15:31 GMT 1
One of my greatest pleasures as a kid was walking around Barkers Sports shop with my mum on a Saturday morning.
As an avid reader of “Shoot” magazine - my world revolved around football so I was aware of all of the current kits.
So, one Saturday I was in Barkers and my mum promised me I could have a shirt.
They had loads to look at and for some stupid reason I was drawn to the brand new Crystal Palace ( Don Rogers era ) shirt.
So this was my first ever kit.
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Post by forehead on Apr 20, 2023 17:32:44 GMT 1
Daihatsu with the red 'D'. mine as well, still got it but won't fit any more 🤣 |
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Post by overtonterrierspirit on Apr 20, 2023 17:44:11 GMT 1
As it was my post that started this, my first shirt was an Everton one in about 72 or 73. I got a Celtic one and the full kit Man City wore in the 76 League Cup Final. My dad's cousin worked for Umbro as a rep and we got the shirts off of him. When he left Umbro he worked for Barralan, he lived in Barnsley and was a mate of Sir Mick of Buxton. Due to their friendship Barralan got the contract to supply Town and my first Town kits were the actual home and away samples that Mick chose for the team to wear. I think my generation was the first where shirts were more widely available and, as such, we got shirts that we thought looked good regardless of whether you supported the team or not. I asked for them for birthdays or Xmas and then JJB came to town and sold shirts cheaply. I had the first "shiny" Man City shirt, the white with a red and black sash that they lost to Halifax in, the Villa title winning shirt, Sunderland, Chelsea (a) and Evertons (all Le Coq Sportif), a couple of early 80's Man U ones (including a blue 3rd shirt), the Admiral England ones. I even had the first Liverpool shirt to have pinstripes 😲😲😲. But since leaving school it's just been Town shirts, the occasional Celtic one and I've just started getting Loch Ness ones cos they look brilliant. The Admiral England kits were things of beauty. |
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Post by Porrohman on Apr 20, 2023 17:49:22 GMT 1
As it was my post that started this, my first shirt was an Everton one in about 72 or 73. I got a Celtic one and the full kit Man City wore in the 76 League Cup Final. My dad's cousin worked for Umbro as a rep and we got the shirts off of him. When he left Umbro he worked for Barralan, he lived in Barnsley and was a mate of Sir Mick of Buxton. Due to their friendship Barralan got the contract to supply Town and my first Town kits were the actual home and away samples that Mick chose for the team to wear. I think my generation was the first where shirts were more widely available and, as such, we got shirts that we thought looked good regardless of whether you supported the team or not. I asked for them for birthdays or Xmas and then JJB came to town and sold shirts cheaply. I had the first "shiny" Man City shirt, the white with a red and black sash that they lost to Halifax in, the Villa title winning shirt, Sunderland, Chelsea (a) and Evertons (all Le Coq Sportif), a couple of early 80's Man U ones (including a blue 3rd shirt), the Admiral England ones. I even had the first Liverpool shirt to have pinstripes 😲😲😲. But since leaving school it's just been Town shirts, the occasional Celtic one and I've just started getting Loch Ness ones cos they look brilliant. The Admiral England kits were things of beauty. Had the late 70's one with the yellow admiral logo and the red and blue stripes on the sleeve and I had the full kit of the one we wore in the 80's Euros and 82 WC |
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Post by overtonterrierspirit on Apr 20, 2023 17:53:54 GMT 1
The Admiral England kits were things of beauty. Had the late 70's one with the yellow admiral logo and the red and blue stripes on the sleeve and I had the full kit of the one we wore in the 80's Euros and 82 WC I’ve swapped “Admiral” stories with Marsh in the past. They produced some great kits. - years ahead of their time! |
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Post by araucaria on Apr 20, 2023 18:05:50 GMT 1
A blue shirt in 1966, after Ray Wilson had won the World Cup, and the FA Cup with Everton, and Tom Johnston (as was his wont) changed Town's shirts to all blue, so it doubled as Town and Everton.
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Post by yorik on Apr 20, 2023 18:41:57 GMT 1
Got my first town shirt after 69-70 promotion season wore it in games lessons at school thought I was Frankie Worthington 😀
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Post by haskins on Apr 20, 2023 18:45:12 GMT 1
Got my first town shirt after 69-70 promotion season wore it in games lessons at school thought I was Frankie Worthington 😀 Liike our Frankie? Having a crafty fag and a cheeky Double Diamond in the bike sheds? |
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Post by Orinoco on Apr 20, 2023 20:00:02 GMT 1
My first Town shirt was the plain blue 1 from the mid 70s with HTFC written on it solely!!, my 1st football kit was out of my mums empire stores catalogue, was Wolves, had choice of 4, think it was all red, all white and all Blue, so went for gold, black and white socks!! This would be early 70s, my god the kids have a few more choices our days!!.
1st kit I bought was the sought after Central Mirfield, shirts didn't really become popular until mid 80's, the scratcher denim jackets and the sewn on patches were well worn prior to shirts becoming popular!!, happy days!!.
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Post by Orinoco on Apr 20, 2023 20:26:01 GMT 1
Yeah I thought it was O'Neills, but then googled it and saw that it's in Crosland Moor. Might actually have got the kit from Sovereign, used to live just along the road from it. Can't believe it's/he's still going strong.... Yes it was down side of woods opposite where farm foods is now, woods used to be opposite where pound bakery is now in the 80s |
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Post by turbo2 on Apr 20, 2023 20:31:37 GMT 1
As it was my post that started this, my first shirt was an Everton one in about 72 or 73. I got a Celtic one and the full kit Man City wore in the 76 League Cup Final. My dad's cousin worked for Umbro as a rep and we got the shirts off of him. When he left Umbro he worked for Barralan, he lived in Barnsley and was a mate of Sir Mick of Buxton. Due to their friendship Barralan got the contract to supply Town and my first Town kits were the actual home and away samples that Mick chose for the team to wear. I think my generation was the first where shirts were more widely available and, as such, we got shirts that we thought looked good regardless of whether you supported the team or not. I asked for them for birthdays or Xmas and then JJB came to town and sold shirts cheaply. I had the first "shiny" Man City shirt, the white with a red and black sash that they lost to Halifax in, the Villa title winning shirt, Sunderland, Chelsea (a) and Evertons (all Le Coq Sportif), a couple of early 80's Man U ones (including a blue 3rd shirt), the Admiral England ones. I even had the first Liverpool shirt to have pinstripes 😲😲😲. But since leaving school it's just been Town shirts, the occasional Celtic one and I've just started getting Loch Ness ones cos they look brilliant. The Admiral England kits were things of beauty. Been looking through old photos looking for a picture of me with the old man. Found a photo of the day I went to Wembley to watch England. Keegan didn’t turn out ( just like he didn’t at Leeds road) anyway i actually had that early 80s admiral shirt on and can’t remember having it. |
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Post by Orinoco on Apr 20, 2023 20:33:31 GMT 1
If you said to the kids that it was Mannequin modelling the shirts, they’d ask which European club did we get him from… That is my favourite shirt, was well made, and the fleecy inside was great!! |
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Post by space hardware on Apr 20, 2023 23:00:52 GMT 1
If you said to the kids that it was Mannequin modelling the shirts, they’d ask which European club did we get him from… That is my favourite shirt, was well made, and the fleecy inside was great!! 😂 Yes, it was fleecy. Weirdly, the home shirt from that time, which I also had, was not fleecy at all. |
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Post by Porrohman on Apr 21, 2023 8:46:26 GMT 1
Had the late 70's one with the yellow admiral logo and the red and blue stripes on the sleeve and I had the full kit of the one we wore in the 80's Euros and 82 WC I’ve swapped “Admiral” stories with Marsh in the past. They produced some great kits. - years ahead of their time! I had an Admiral Philadelphia Fury shirt we bought, on holiday in Cornwall, when I was about 10. All I knew was Frankie had played for them |
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Post by ram on Apr 21, 2023 10:24:51 GMT 1
I once applied for an RSC Anderlect shirt {a thing of beauty} ..They never answered my request. Weird!
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Post by terryya on Apr 21, 2023 11:27:19 GMT 1
First one was a 1980s Liverpool kit with the pin stripes. Like earlier posters it was a full boxed kit.
First Town one was the pinstriped Greenalls abomination.
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Post by Oblong of Dreams on Apr 21, 2023 12:12:17 GMT 1
You know how when you're a kid, you support Town, but you also "support" someone that's good as well? For me it was Glasgow Rangers & Sheffield Wednesday (who were good at the time - early 90s). My first shirt was a Rangers shirt that I bought from Sugg Sports. Never owned a Wednesday one (although I did own a massive one in the sense that I was a fat kid). First Town shirt was the Pulse one we had from Warnock's first spell here. Still had it until a few years ago. When you're a kid who supports a team outside the top flight, you pick a "favourite" from the top flight too... but when you're older and you support a team in any of the top four divisions, the only acceptable "second team" is one from overseas or non-league. My former varied from L***s (very briefly) to Spurs (cos they had Gascoigne) and latterly Norwich (when they flirted with the top 4 with Chris Sutton). These days it's Taunton Town (watched them a few times when I lived down there, they're now in the dizzy heights of the Conference South), and Sliema Wanderers from the Malta Premier League (saw them in a UEFA Cup preliminary whilst on a family holiday). Also have a bit of a soft spot for Borussia Dortmund thanks to a school exchange in the area, and Dukla Praha because of HMHB. Oh, and Kingstonian because I lived there too, and because they got shafted by AFC Wimbledon but nobody remembers that bit when they talk about the "fairytale". |
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Post by Oblong of Dreams on Apr 21, 2023 12:22:54 GMT 1
Got my first town shirt after 69-70 promotion season wore it in games lessons at school thought I was Frankie Worthington 😀 Liike our Frankie? Having a crafty fag and a cheeky Double Diamond in the bike sheds? A true Frankie imitator would be behind the bike sheds |
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Post by mosher on Apr 21, 2023 13:00:11 GMT 1
Liike our Frankie? Having a crafty fag and a cheeky Double Diamond in the bike sheds? A true Frankie imitator would be behind the bike sheds Beat me to it mate, was going to put something about "smell my fingers" behind the bike sheds |
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Post by Orinoco on Apr 21, 2023 13:08:29 GMT 1
As it was my post that started this, my first shirt was an Everton one in about 72 or 73. I got a Celtic one and the full kit Man City wore in the 76 League Cup Final. My dad's cousin worked for Umbro as a rep and we got the shirts off of him. When he left Umbro he worked for Barralan, he lived in Barnsley and was a mate of Sir Mick of Buxton. Due to their friendship Barralan got the contract to supply Town and my first Town kits were the actual home and away samples that Mick chose for the team to wear. I think my generation was the first where shirts were more widely available and, as such, we got shirts that we thought looked good regardless of whether you supported the team or not. I asked for them for birthdays or Xmas and then JJB came to town and sold shirts cheaply. I had the first "shiny" Man City shirt, the white with a red and black sash that they lost to Halifax in, the Villa title winning shirt, Sunderland, Chelsea (a) and Evertons (all Le Coq Sportif), a couple of early 80's Man U ones (including a blue 3rd shirt), the Admiral England ones. I even had the first Liverpool shirt to have pinstripes 😲😲😲. But since leaving school it's just been Town shirts, the occasional Celtic one and I've just started getting Loch Ness ones cos they look brilliant. Great story!!, I've seen some of the loch Ness shirts they look pretty cool☺ |
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Post by Tinpot on Apr 21, 2023 13:16:46 GMT 1
You know how when you're a kid, you support Town, but you also "support" someone that's good as well? For me it was Glasgow Rangers & Sheffield Wednesday (who were good at the time - early 90s). My first shirt was a Rangers shirt that I bought from Sugg Sports. Never owned a Wednesday one (although I did own a massive one in the sense that I was a fat kid). First Town shirt was the Pulse one we had from Warnock's first spell here. Still had it until a few years ago. When you're a kid who supports a team outside the top flight, you pick a "favourite" from the top flight too... but when you're older and you support a team in any of the top four divisions, the only acceptable "second team" is one from overseas or non-league. My former varied from L***s (very briefly) to Spurs (cos they had Gascoigne) and latterly Norwich (when they flirted with the top 4 with Chris Sutton). These days it's Taunton Town (watched them a few times when I lived down there, they're now in the dizzy heights of the Conference South), and Sliema Wanderers from the Malta Premier League (saw them in a UEFA Cup preliminary whilst on a family holiday). Also have a bit of a soft spot for Borussia Dortmund thanks to a school exchange in the area, and Dukla Praha because of HMHB. Oh, and Kingstonian because I lived there too, and because they got shafted by AFC Wimbledon but nobody remembers that bit when they talk about the "fairytale". Yep. TBF there were quite a lot of "2nd teams" when I was a kid. Spurs being one of mine - also Gazza, plus (heth eth eth) Chris Waddle. Rangers was the only one where I bought the shirt though. As a young adult - Emley. THAT cup run quarter of a century ago was the most excited I've ever got about a club that wasn't HTFC. Nowadays, Bromley. In-laws are fans of the club. Started out going along as a neutral, but watching enough of their fixtures you become invested. Never as invested as I was as a young adult watching that Emley game, but I still want to see them do well. |
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