High Wycombe FC
We need to be thankful that the working class team of the town North Town Wanderers came to prominence . As I've just seen the kit that High Wycombe FC wore in the FA Cup in the 1870's. (I don't know how to upload it on here).
But the thought of witnessing a load of over weight bumble bees marching to Adam's Park every fortnight is quite horrific.
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Painful memories of the dark days of the Sudbury Squatters ruining our pitch
I'm sure if we played in a bumble bee kit i'd be as precious and protective of it as i am of our Oxford and Cambridge quarters.
My memory may be very hazy but was the JHS rugby kit from the mid 70’s gold and black hoops? (It could have been the school I was at before or after though)
Correct @bookertease and for a football school the mid ‘70’s rugby XV were amazing, in the ‘75-‘76 season they lost only one game (Borlase away) winning 18, with several lads playing for the county.
http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Eminent Victorians/eminent_victorians_images/high-wycombe-1877.gif
Suddenly the Alan smith kit looks a little more appealing
That's a magnificent kit
Truly horrific kit, as an impressionable young boy in the 70's, seeing Derek Harris glide down the wing in the wonderful sky blue shirt, certainly helped to cement my life long passion for the Wanderers.
If I had to witness this awful strip on my first visit to Loakes park, I'm not convinced I would ever of wanted to go back .
It has a slightly ‘pirate’ feel about it?
Tony the Tiger in blue jeans. At least the mascot would have been easy to sort!!!
And indeed the predecessor to that school before they had the temerity to rename it.
Anymore info on High Wycombe FC other than crap kit choice?
Maybe Pete Couhig would like to revive as the third kit next season? I have now redesigned my Fantasy Premier League team kit to match.
According to the official history High Wycombe FC played the first game against Marlow on the Rye in 1871. However by the 1880s 'their importance was on the wane as they found it increasingly hard to attract players, who were mostly tradesmen and white collar workers.'
Is the terrace song “Wycombe fc, the team for me” a last vestige of these earlier times? Does this explain how the Wanderers monicker was omitted from that chant?