Shirt Geeks

[vorpal blade]

It might have been, the shirt sponsor thing is something I'd not thought about. There is no club badge on the shirt so, it may have been a training kit from the cupboard at Colchester. Until your suggestion, I'd dreamed up that we'd got the kit we'd brought knocked back by the ref. because he thought our shirt looked too much like Colchester's, and we'd sent the kit man out with £50 to the nearest sports shop ... but I concede your rationalisation is more reasonable - especially because the shirts had numbers on the backs.

You reminded me that at that time clubs had shirt sponsors usually but they couldn't wear them on TV (ITV & BBC??). Match of the Day very rarely showed a 4th Division match so perhaps it was a last minute switch by the BBC after a nearby match was postponed & SUFC weren't to know they should use their unsponsored shirts? ... or, more likely, it was just cock-up.

Colchester's kit was adidas® and it was the first time they decided they couldn't be bothered using striped material for the sleeves - they supplied kits for a lot of striped teams at that time, Notts. County springs to mind .... the coloured (or black) stripes were too narrow and the kits looked useless in my (learned) opinion.... plus ça change........

here is the TV coverage;

 

[DaveBassettsgoneonholiday]

Didn't Watford have to put black tape over a shirt sponsor when they were on the TV once ?

 

[DaveBassettsgoneonholiday]

Aha. Quick Google ....

 

[I should coco]

Didn't Watford have to put black tape over a shirt sponsor when they were on the TV once ?

Funny, but I read that as "Didn't Wendy O Williams of the Plasmatics, have to put black tape over her nipples......".

I must have had something else on my mind.....

 

[Deadbat]

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I've got that shirt. Not sure how I acquired it

 

[GallonofMagnet]

Thanks for all the replies. Love all the one-offs and the stories/reasoning behind them!

Keep them coming.

 

[RowTBlade10]

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Did we ever end up wearing this abomination of a shirt?

 

[mattbianco1]

Aha. Quick Google ....

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Definite red card tackle that

 

[CrookesBlade]

Did we once give an away side our change shorts and socks? I’m sure we did.....think it was the navy ones from 93/94.

 

[Paisley Blade]

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Great day out that one . Got off Kaz tours on Roker sea front. Police warned us to have our wits about us as one of their lot was taking pot shots with a bow and arrow.

Welcome to Sunderland.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

White with a red collar. Another quality player in a quality shirt.

 

[guancheblade]

Loads of shirts missing off that list. Plus there's a bit of history rewriting - no sign of the white shirt and blue shorts anywhere

 

[GallonofMagnet]

Loads of shirts missing off that list. Plus there's a bit of history rewriting - no sign of the white shirt and blue shorts anywhere

Hence the post! Care to assist with filling in the blanks?

 

[Weasel]

Great day out that one . Got off Kaz tours on Roker sea front. Police warned us to have our wits about us as one of their lot was taking pot shots with a bow and arrow.

Welcome to Sunderland.

Was there too that day with some of the lads. Great result, and it was a bit tasty outside the away end after the match. I remember that one of the lads i was with that day was a known 'big hitter' in our part of the world and was seriously handy with the fists. A good few Sunlun lads were on one after the match (not helped by Hodges headbutting Armstrong and getting sent off late on, and the result) and were out for a bit of revenge. Unfortunately they came across ***** and he was more than happy to oblige them en masse. We just walked around the carnage as he gave us a wink and a smile and carried on with his 'work'. He was well happy. A brick through the window of the full bus on the way out of Sunderland, a stop off in some establishments on the way back home, and an all round damned fine day really.

Oh, and ***** just carried on the day (he hadn't got nicked somehow) as if nothing had happened. Crazy lad, not seen him in years now.

 

[vorpal blade]

Did we once give an away side our change shorts and socks? I’m sure we did.....think it was the navy ones from 93/94.

I think I heard of that but it certainly happened at home against Crystal Peaks in the mid-1970s.

 

[XM657]

A variation of #41, same shirt just added red pocket. Remember this one on a few occasions, black shorts with black sox white turnovers. I even remember it's use in a Sheffield V Glasgow game circa 1950's. Not sure which came first, logic says red pocket first then cost cutting exercise, pocket less cheaper. Alus been tight at Lane. Photo Jan15 1948-49 V Arsenal. Lost 5-3. Hagan Thompson & Whitelum

 

[Silent Blade]

A variation of #41, same shirt just added red pocket. Remember this one on a few occasions, black shorts with black sox white turnovers. I even remember it's use in a Sheffield V Glasgow game circa 1950's. Not sure which came first, logic says red pocket first then cost cutting exercise, pocket less cheaper. View attachment 51945 Alus been tight at Lane. Photo Jan15 1948-49 V Arsenal. Lost 5-3. Hagan Thompson & Whitelum

Back row; Jackson, Bailey, Smith, Latham, Cox, Cockroft. Front row; Thompson, Hagan, Whitelum, Warhurst, Jones

 

[vorpal blade]

a. Quick Go

You got me confused there, I thought it was a player I didn't know and it was us away at Villa before I belatedly noticed the taped off sponsor - while we're about it, that Villa kit was a real beauty, Coq Sportif did some gems in the 1980s .... it shows what you can do if you take the shirt manufacturer's logo off the chest and put it on the sleeve and the sponsorless shirt makes it all look a lot purer.

 

[vorpal blade]

Liverpool in the European Cup Final with tape over the Umbro badge on their shirts (which obviously fell off sometimes) ..... I suppose that was something to do with adidas® being in bed with UEFA?

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

Did we ever end up wearing this abomination of a shirt?

Don’t think we did. It ended up being advertised as a ‘training shirt’ IIRC. There weren’t many on sale though and very hard to find.

 

[blade_ben]

Did we once give an away side our change shorts and socks? I’m sure we did.....think it was the navy ones from 93/94.

Swindon when they came upto the premier league, first game of the season

 

[Eskimo]

Didn’t we play in tangerine at an away game once and in my minds eye I can see Len Badger in an all all blue kit on another occasion in the 60s. FA cup tie rings a bell? Not official kits just kit clashes.
Yes ? Or am I losing it?

 

[DaveBassettsgoneonholiday]

I can't see why we don't get to choose which shirt we have like we did years back with options in the matchday programme. Surely it would sell better if a majority of fans liked it. Did we not choose the 96/97 Avec/Wards shirt, the best modern shirt we've had in my humble opinion ?
Should be a lot easier and far reaching now with all this social media and digital gubbins that we have, plus the powers that be could stipulate you have to have a customer number to vote to avoid any sabotage.
What would top it off would be if we got the shirt sponsor crowd funded (see, I do know a little bit of what "the kids" are up to these days) by us Blades supporters therefore giving the option not to have a shirt sponsor.

 

[Silent Blade]

Against Southampton in the 1925 FA Cup semi final we wore all red.

In the home FA Cup 4th round cup tie against Lincoln in 1961 we borrowed Barnsley's kit (red shirts, white shorts), two rounds later at Newcastle we wore tangerine shirts.

In Sept 1966, Spurs brought over their black shorts for a midweek fixture at the Lane so the ref requested us to wear white shorts. We won but carried on wearing the white shorts for the home games and it brought us success until losing to Birmingham in the League Cup 5th round. Think that was why the club decided on white shorts for the 1967-68 season and we didnt do well.

We wore tangerine shorts at Newcastle in a league match in February 1968 (see photo below)

You are aware that we wore all blue at Stoke, Boro, Liverpool and Arsenal in the 1974-75 season? Photo below of the 0-0 draw at Anfield in March 1975

 

[Silent Blade]

Our change kit between 1967-68 and 1973-74

 

[Silent Blade]

The shirt we wore at Selhurst Park on 4th December 1971

You can see the colour of the shirt we wore from 10 mins 44 seconds in below video

 

[BushBlade]

Our change kit between 1967-68 and 1973-74

They should sell that in the club shop. I’d buy one.

 

[Silent Blade]

Our change kit in mid 1960s

 

[XM657]

Against Southampton in the 1925 FA Cup semi final we wore all red.

In the home FA Cup 4th round cup tie against Lincoln in 1961 we borrowed Barnsley's kit (red shirts, white shorts), two rounds later at Newcastle we wore tangerine shirts.

In Sept 1966, Spurs brought over their black shorts for a midweek fixture at the Lane so the ref requested us to wear white shorts. We won but carried on wearing the white shorts for the home games and it brought us success until losing to Birmingham in the League Cup 5th round. Think that was why the club decided on white shorts for the 1967-68 season and we didnt do well.

We wore tangerine shorts at Newcastle in a league match in February 1968 (see photo below)

You are aware that we wore all blue at Stoke, Boro, Liverpool and Arsenal in the 1974-75 season? Photo below of the 0-0 draw at Anfield in March 1975

Regards 1925 Semi Final V Southampton red shirts they must be these below, solved another one of my unknowns, Ta SB. As for the Barnsley Shirts V Lincoln,4rd cup, seems unusual they borrowed red, as it does the 1925 photo shirts are red but I'm convinced they are. I do know that in1956 FAC 4rd V Sunderland, Utd borrowed Barnsley change strip, blue shirts white collars, white shorts and red sox. Sunderland borrowed Newcastle's home kit. Got a photo of the game ,can't find it at the moment, snow covered pitch. Back to the '61 Lincoln cup match. I've remembered going to the league match at Sincell Bank, where Utd wore orange/tangerine silky shirts with black shorts black soxs white turnovers. Silky type shirts remind me of early 50.s FACF's but also early floodlit games at the Lane. Memory says, if it serves me right, Utd. had a red and white halves (silky) shirts kit. Wonder what happened to those? Must be some Telegraph/Star photos around, yes-no.
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[Silent Blade]

Regards 1925 Semi Final V Southampton red shirts they must be these below, solved another one of my unknowns, Ta SB. As for the Barnsley Shirts V Lincoln,4rd cup, seems unusual they borrowed red, as it does the 1925 photo shirts are red but I'm convinced they are. I do know that in1956 FAC 4rd V Sunderland, Utd borrowed Barnsley change strip, blue shirts white collars, white shorts and red sox. Sunderland borrowed Newcastle's home kit. Got a photo of the game ,can't find it at the moment, snow covered pitch. Back to the '61 Lincoln cup match. I've remembered going to the league match at Sincell Bank, where Utd wore orange/tangerine silky shirts with black shorts black soxs white turnovers. Silky type shirts remind me of early 50.s FACF's but also early floodlit games at the Lane. Memory says, if it serves me right, Utd. had a red and white halves (silky) shirts kit. Wonder what happened to those? Must be some Telegraph/Star photos around, yes-no.
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Cheers for the info and for the photo. Not seen the photo before, looks like Probables v Possible match before the start of the 1925-26 season? We had just signed keeper Jack Alderson from Crystal Palace. He is next to Charles Sutcliffe who was our keeper for the 1925 Cup final but played only 3 more games for us as Alderson was considered to be the better keeper