Help: Images Required of Admiral Away Kits

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Canterbury Blade said:
From memory (as a kid mind) I recall the kits of that era by Admiral having very coarse and rough nylon. Recall a cold match somewhere like Castle Dyke and me nipples getting a right chafing and the collar almost making me neck bleed. Kids nowadays don't know how lucky they are!

The shorts however were more like incontinent pants, very tight around the leg and the nylon more like ripcord. Never tested their ability in the old continence department but would have had a degree of confidence.

Admiral were of course also responsible for the chocolate brown Coventry kit with the vertical stripes that curved toward the shoulder. I know brown was big in the 70' s but that kit was one of the worst ever kits. Thank Christ we didn't go for that one.

Finally, I recall buying a Leeds away kit Subutteo team with the sole purpose of liberating them, by self painting the united admiral V's over the blank yellow kit with Humbrol model paint to turn them into The Blades. A great idea, however my painting skills weren't quite there, the results didn't quite work and they looked like your average roadside tarmaccer after a week on the job. Got laughed out of our Subutteo league.

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That's brought back memories CB of seemingly endless hours customising various Utd Subbuteo kits (number 9 was always us ?)..... managed to do a reasonable job of the umbro kit we had when Bassett got us back in to the first division, including a ginger Colin Hill and a filed down Deano to recreate the flat top hair cut.
 

I found the yellow and brown striped away strip at the bottom of my wardrobe the other week.

Not sure if it's admiral but if you want a picture of a 40 year old out of shape bloke wearing it, I'll get the wife to take some photos of me wearing it?
 
DaveBassettsgoneonholiday said:
That's brought back memories CB of seemingly endless hours customising various Utd Subbuteo kits (number 9 was always us ?)..... managed to do a reasonable job of the umbro kit we had when Bassett got us back in to the first division, including a ginger Colin Hill and a filed down Deano to recreate the flat top hair cut.
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DONT LAUGH but i once took a team picture of my mini men swapping the goalie for an everton player so it fitted in i was only 9 lol
 
Anyone know who the 2 players are in the background...

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mattbianco1 said:
Never seen that one before. Bugger. That's another one to bleeding find
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It seems to pass most people by. The first one Admiral did (as worn on here by TC et al) was always remembered and has become a bit iconic (1st Blades shirt I ever had) and the yellow chevron is well admired (my favourite away kit ever) but this one hardly ever gets mentioned or remembered even though it's a classy shirt (the template was used by Luton at the time for their iconic kits).

Have a look here for a fairly comprehensive set of Admiral kits of the era

http://www.truecoloursfootballkits.com/articles/the-kit-cupboard-special-admiral-in-the-70s
 

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