It's back...name those Blades

[Silent Blade]

I think that season we also had Ray McHale, Alan Young, Mick Henderson and Terry Cunt.

We signed them in summer 1982

 

[vorpal blade]

sorry this is a misfire - I was experimenting.

A warning popped up in a box.

It read "please enter a valid message" - I'm not sure I've ever done that

 

[Cyprus Blade]

Training tops made by HOBOTT (House of Barrington). They must be long gone by now, right?

 

[BushBlade]

We signed them in summer 1982

Wasn't the Everton game part of the preseason to 82-83?

 

[Silent Blade]

Wasn't the Everton game part of the preseason to 82-83?

No, after the end of the 1981-82 season (on a midweek in May 1982). We paraded the 4th division trophy before the kick off

 

[coaxingstar71]

In January 1982 McAlle moved to Derby and Ryan to Man City

I thought I'd seen them both play for us that season but couldn't remember they'd left befor ethe end of it. McAlle didn't last long then!

Given your encyclopaedic knowledge Silent, I'm sure you'll remember Julian Broddle being given a debut at home to Halifax that season and being awful - did he even play another game for us?

 

[Silent Blade]

I thought I'd seen them both play for us that season but couldn't remember they'd left befor ethe end of it. McAlle didn't last long then!

Given your encyclopaedic knowledge Silent, I'm sure you'll remember Julian Broddle being given a debut at home to Halifax that season and being awful - did he even play another game for us?

I wasnt at the match Julian played in but I remember my dad telling me about it. It was his only competitive appearance for us before moving to Scunthorpe

 

[judge]

I used to have the black version of this tracky top and that kit

 

[Darren]

Thinking about who was there that season, Waugh Conroy and Casey.

Players who played that season were

GK

Keith Waugh
Steve Conroy

D

John Ryan
Tony Moore
Paul Casey
Paul Garner
Stewart Houston
John MacPhail
John McAlle
Tony Kenworthy

MF

John Matthews
Les Tibbott
Paul Richardson
Mike Trusson
Julian Broddle
Steve Charles
Jeff King
Gary Brazil

F

Trenton Wiggan
Steve Neville
Colin Morris
Keith Edwards
Bob Hatton.

Derek Richardson and Stewart Evans also played in the pre season Group Cup tournament.

 

[BushBlade]

No, after the end of the 1981-82 season (on a midweek in May 1982). We paraded the 4th division trophy before the kick off

Cheers. How times change.

 

[Fulwood Blade]

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Here's a little mind bender for you - does anyone know what HOBOTT stood for?

H O B is pretty obvious - what's the other 3 words?

Will post at the end of day if no one has twigged............come on, surely someone must remember????/

UTB

 

[Cyprus Blade]

Here's a little mind bender for you - does anyone know what HOBOTT stood for?

House of Barrington Official Team Top if I remember properly.

 

[stringjunior]

but at the time we wouldn't have been seen dead in it or anything less than a Fila Borg top (or a replica by C&A (popularised by myself), the Slazenger version), an Ellesse or SergioTacchini (John McEnroe).

The Cerrutti 1881 (Jimmy Connors) would have been as acceptable in retrospect - I didn't like them then - but I can't remember seeing any at football games.....correct me if I'm wrong?

Football fashion. Deserves a thread of of its own

 

[vorpal blade]

I suppose its telling that since replica shirts have been widely available, they have - for many reasons - been shunned by snappy dressers?

 

[Fulwood Blade]

House of Barrington Official Team Top if I remember properly.

well done !

do you remember where the shop/offices were?
I seem to recall in my distant memory driving past it near to the ground.

UTB

 

[JJ Sefton]

I used to have the black version of this tracky top and that kit

I'd buy a replica one.

 

[LondonRoad]

House of Barrington Official Team Top if I remember properly.

House of Barrington Official Teamster Top, to be pedantic

 

[Cyprus Blade]

do you remember where the shop/offices were?

was it not at the address in my post #33 above?

 

[Fulwood Blade]

was it not at the address in my post #33 above?

That's an interesting one - I seem to remember it being on Queens Road near to the junction with Charlotte road and not where the advert said.
Obviously it was up Abbeydale road at some point - Think there is a bed place now on Queens Road.

UTB

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

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FFS! And we take the piss out of the Wendies for their Sondico kit!

More innocent times then.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Scougg's shirt could be made by HOBBIT.

 

[coaxingstar71]

That's an interesting one - I seem to remember it being on Queens Road near to the junction with Charlotte road and not where the advert said.
Obviously it was up Abbeydale road at some point - Think there is a bed place now on Queens Road.

UTB

They made the HOBOTT shirts at the Queens Road shop opposite where the retail park is now - I know this because we had a set of footie shirts made there for our U16 side around 1986/87. The shirts we had made were a rip off of the Denmark 1986 World Cup kit .



The Barringtons Sports Shop was on Abbeydale Road next to the Picture Palace where the Pizza Hut Delivery place is.

 

[Fulwood Blade]

They made the HOBOTT shirts at the Queens Road shop opposite where the retail park is now - I know this because we had a set of footie shirts made there for our U16 side around 1986/87. The shirts we had made were a rip off of the Denmark 1986 World Cup kit .



The Barringtons Sports Shop was on Abbeydale Road next to the Picture Palace where the Pizza Hut Delivery place is.

Thanks - that explains it then. I thought I could remember seeing it outside on the building.

UTB

 

[judge]

I'd buy a replica one.

Is that supposed to be a joke ?

 

[JJ Sefton]

Is that supposed to be a joke ?

No, I think its a quality bit of kit. I even forked out for a replica of that yellow and brown job.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

but at the time we wouldn't have been seen dead in it or anything less than a Fila Borg top (or a replica by C&A (popularised by myself), the Slazenger version), an Ellesse or SergioTacchini (John McEnroe).

The Cerrutti 1881 (Jimmy Connors) would have been as acceptable in retrospect - I didn't like them then - but I can't remember seeing any at football games.....correct me if I'm wrong?

Never saw any Cerrutti anywhere, Vorps. Never really went for the tracksuit top thing much back then (even a Man at C&A version) but I did where one of these atop a white Fred Perry. Look completed with the black Farah slacks and Adidas Samba in black.



Thoughts at the time: tasty looking.

Thoughts now: Twat!

 

[vorpal blade]

Au cointreau Essex, au cointreau......its very much a la mode all over again.

Tennis wear was eclipsed by Golf gear about a year and a half later wasn't it?

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Au cointreau Essex, au cointreau......its very much a la mode all over again.

Tennis wear was eclipsed by Golf gear about a year and a half later wasn't it?

Pringle was in big time, especially in pastel shades.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Au cointreau Essex, au cointreau......its very much a la mode all over again.

Tennis wear was eclipsed by Golf gear about a year and a half later wasn't it?

Aye, like I said knitwear rather than sportswear was my thing (sod knows why) so when it did change I had a few of these horror shows, teamed with the white Pringle roll top, now with Lois cords and Adidas Gazelle in navy.

 

[itsinyerblood]

Aye, like I said knitwear rather than sportswear was my thing (sod knows why) so when it did change I had a few of these horror shows, teamed with the white Pringle roll top, now with Lois cords and Adidas Gazelle in navy.

Lois, now there's a name to refresh my memory. Italian brand weren't they? I had a couple of pairs of Lois Jeans, think their branding featured a bull, but correct me if I'm wrong. I used to shop at John Simon in Covent Garden, the best supplier of american-italian menswear I recall. Now Simons has relocated to Chiltern Street, very swish and the place to be it seems.