Retro kit launch
Anyone getting one?
only goes up to XL so went that size albeit I think I’m 2XL. I think it looks fantastic, perfect for Xmas.
https://www.wwfcshop.co.uk/product/wyc-retro-1986-matchday-jersey-adult/
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Anyone getting one?
only goes up to XL so went that size albeit I think I’m 2XL. I think it looks fantastic, perfect for Xmas.
https://www.wwfcshop.co.uk/product/wyc-retro-1986-matchday-jersey-adult/
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Ooh, hopefully the first of many
Sign him up!
Would love to get one, but being 'generously proportioned' XL isn't going to fit. Would have thought that some higher sizes would have been a good idea given many of those who are old enough to see us play in that shirt might require something a little bigger.
Will grab my zimmer frame and hobble down to the shop to register my disappointment.
Clearly the webmaster is not keen on it based on the last sentence here
These look great but Westy needs a ‘tache!
I love a retro shirt as i'm an old fecker (63) so bought myself an early Christmas present in medium size.
I bet that brought back some memories for Westie, pulling the shirt on again. My Umbro light blue shirt, bought from the legend that is 'Eddie Monsoon' himself, at the old Loakes Park programme hut, has seen better days, so this is very timely...
Worn by "The Blues", by the way. Literally no-one was using the nickname "Chairboys" back then.
I'm the same age as Westy... I remember him ripping me a new one when we Played Stokenchurch in an u16 match one year... ahh happy days !
I'm waiting for the 1929-1937 or the 1949-1950 (badge placement, dark quarter on the right):
I think the white collar on the 1929 shirt is nicer than the dark collar on the 1949 one, so I vote for 1929. Head of club shop if you’re reading this, 1929 shirt please (I will be getting one of these 1986 shirts though)
In theory the club should be able to properly remake any of the old shirts that didn't have a manufacturer's logo, although the holy grail for me is the Umbro one with the diamond pattern 🤤
Interesting* follow-up @flymofrank - the replica for the Umbro kit, when initially produced, was long-sleeved. I think all my other replicas are short-sleeved.
(*To some. Possibly.)
The very few I've seen 'in the wild' have had long sleeves. I think they usually look better!
I will happily admit to owning a long sleeved Umbro replica kit - and it does just about still fit.
i do have to roll the sleeves up (easier said than done) though as i have an iron-shaped hole in one of them…
Back then I wasn’t used to that type of material and quickly learnt DO NOT USE A HOT ITON ON IT
I think about four of my mates still have this one. They were all long sleeved but mine was lost long ago.
Still remember reading in the programme at Loakes Park that it was ‘available to pre order at the club shop in the ground and sprinting across the terrace to get my name down.
Wait, people used to IRON their football shirts?
We Used to have standards back in the day (and crap washing machines).
Post Covid I have completely given up ironing anything…
Poor form! Even as a relative youngster, I still iron shirts.
They weren't always plastic
This is true. I think it was the 1982 World Cup where England sweated so much through their shirts that Admiral had to send a new batch out to Spain.
Yes - and the lady from Admiral had to sew the badges on at the airport in a rush, so that they were all in mismatched places on the shirt.
I can't remember the name, but there's a really good documentary on Admiral (might be a series). I'm fairly sure it was ITV, so probably on ITVX or whatever it's called these days.
That was the one!
It is a real "truth is stranger than fiction" story.
Almost as crazy as the 'Dirty Pop' documentary where I found out that the Backstreet Boys and NSync were both formed as part of a Ponzi scheme to defraud investors by the president of a failed blimp company.
I think they still make some kits. They had some absolute classics, though - Coventry's brown away kit was one of theirs, I think?
Is that on Netflix? I seem to remember seeing it advertised. Fairly wild stuff!
Dirty Pop? Yes, Netflix. It was absolutely nuts!
That's the one! Might have to watch it. The one about the 90s Woodstock (I've totally forgotten what it's called) is great too.
Woodstock 99 is wild, and more than a bit gross. New iPlayer UK 90s boyband series isn't bad but probably a bit tame compared to the US one, Robbie and Brian Harvey not exactly Ozzy and co.
That's the one - yeah, not great at all in that respect
@flymofrank i think the Wales shirt of the mid 70s was an Admiral kit of the same Coventry template, but in red, with yellow/green/yellow stripy stripage (made-up word, in true Gasroom tradition - see also linky linkage).
Coventry’s kit was marmite in more ways than one!