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Post by haskins on Apr 20, 2023 11:17:30 GMT 1
This topic was buried in the Today’s Games thread but Admins suggested it might make an interesting one in its own right. I assumed 99% would be Town shirts and if it was, which one?However, maybe it was for a team less fabled than Town. Here goes: mine was Man City in ‘68, I suppose my dad (a dyed in the wool Town fan for 80 years till he left us in October aged 91) got it for me because they were League Champions. This was four years before my first match, Town vs Ipswich 1972. What about you?
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Post by mosher on Apr 20, 2023 11:23:31 GMT 1
It was either a Dortmund one or an Ajax one. Can't remember which way round I was bought them but mam has pics of me in both (not at the same time lol) around 79/80 when we lived in Dortmund. Edit: First Town shirt was Gola home, same season as the electric one I ACTUALLY asked for  Edit 2: Was obviously a Town fan before the Gola season but didn't wear anything other than heavy metal t-shirts and jeans at that point. |
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Post by Christ in Shades (art) on Apr 20, 2023 11:30:19 GMT 1
Daihatsu with the red 'D'.
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Post by Porrohman on Apr 20, 2023 11:42:45 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.
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Post by mosher on Apr 20, 2023 11:44:57 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. USA USA USA Mr Nagle's influence is spreading  |
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Post by Porrohman on Apr 20, 2023 11:54:07 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. USA USA USA Mr Nagle's influence is spreading I originally wrote off him but it didn't look right |
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Post by The Sheriff Strikes Back on Apr 20, 2023 12:10:10 GMT 1
Newcastle
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Post by Captainslapper on Apr 20, 2023 12:15:59 GMT 1
Leeds circa 1977...  |
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Post by themanfromatlantis on Apr 20, 2023 12:23:37 GMT 1
Do you still use it to give the gutters a wipe? |
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Post by mosher on Apr 20, 2023 12:32:03 GMT 1
Leeds circa 1977... Do you still use it to give the gutters a wipe? I've never heard a bum being called the gutters before |
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Post by thrice on Apr 20, 2023 12:32:44 GMT 1
Full Spurs Holston home kit with number 8 on the back.
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Post by ginner on Apr 20, 2023 12:37:01 GMT 1
Mine was the Greenalls one with the massive white patch on the front.
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Post by turbo2 on Apr 20, 2023 12:40:02 GMT 1
Arsenal, fort William about 1975.
Remember it was huge on me and was still wearing it when I got my only ever town shirt , the polyester Barrallan one about 79
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Post by Norn Iron Terrier on Apr 20, 2023 12:58:39 GMT 1
86 England full kit from grandparents.
Well it was one of those kits in the boxes from the market.
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Post by Tinpot on Apr 20, 2023 12:59:21 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? |
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Post by Tinpot on Apr 20, 2023 13:00:10 GMT 1
Do you still use it to give the gutters a wipe? I've never heard a bum being called the gutters before I wouldn't let one of those things touch my skin. |
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Post by space hardware on Apr 20, 2023 13:00:27 GMT 1
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Post by dewsburyterrier on Apr 20, 2023 13:02:40 GMT 1
I had the 70/71 away one just to play football at school in.
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Post by Tinpot on Apr 20, 2023 13:04:13 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.
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Post by Porrohman on Apr 20, 2023 14:03:04 GMT 1
Leeds circa 1977... Figures 😜😉 |
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Post by Sparrow on Apr 20, 2023 14:07:21 GMT 1
I think mine was a black and white one for Denby Dale Cubs aged 8.
I do though have a very vague memory of my mum getting me a Leeds United kit when I was a kid. Can't remember how old I was
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Post by galpharm2400 on Apr 20, 2023 14:08:17 GMT 1
First shirt..
England 66, your mum had to sew on the 3 lions badge that came seperately..
The quality was appalling but when you are Bobby Moore, you overlook this.
Aug 65 Middlesborough at home first game.
6 0 to Town, hooked by the drug.😔
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Post by Terrier Ramone on Apr 20, 2023 14:13:44 GMT 1
All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit
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Post by Oblong of Dreams on Apr 20, 2023 14:22:15 GMT 1
All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit My DPAK is the only non-Town shirt I own or have ever owned. Never even had an England shirt, though I did try to get an Austria one for one of the World Cups, as my plan at the time was to study German at Uni- though I drew the line at actually wearing a Germany shirt at the time (even though the West Germany one from 1990 still looks bloody fantastic). My first Town shirt was the red and black Greenalls away kit made by the ironically-named (for us at the time) Matchwinner. |
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Post by Floyds on Apr 20, 2023 14:22:31 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!).
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Post by Tinpot on Apr 20, 2023 14:27:35 GMT 1
I do though have a very vague memory of my mum getting me a Leeds United kit when I was a kid. She could have saved herself the money and just told you verbally that she didn't love you. |
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Post by Porrohman on Apr 20, 2023 14:34:15 GMT 1
All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit Got one 😁 |
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Post by Porrohman on Apr 20, 2023 14:34:49 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 ? |
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Post by Scott Chegg on Apr 20, 2023 14:40:24 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. |
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Post by 4 pts on Apr 20, 2023 15:06:20 GMT 1
85 Greenalls home was my first and the Panasonic dark blue and green 3rd kit was my last one. Can't find them now, so must have thrown both out but I've kept hold of every shirt I bought my son or what he has bought since 1999.
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