Haes your nipper used to play golf with a mush and his accent made him say cloud as if it rhymes with spade
Whereabouts in London are you? anywhere near N10? North London Saint was my near neighbour, just down the road in Bounds Green, but he hasn't been on for an age. Think @VVD is down Lewisham or somewhere Kentish like that.
I was so chuffed when I was given the Saints team to add to my Subbuteo collection when I was younger. It was re-booted a few years back and I believe that there is now a Subbuteo league albeit all the " managers" are middle-aged! It has been interesting to read the comments about the Saints yellow and blue away kit and the nostalgia for the 1976 cup winning version. I am sure that my Dad told me that this was not , in fact, the original 2nd kit. The change kits came in to being in 1969 and I understand that we originally played in gold jerseys with black shorts. I don't know when we started to wear blue and yellow but it must have been frilly recent if we had only stated to wear an away kit seven years previously. One of the aspects of football that fascinates me is the game's origins in the 1800s. There used to be a website which had all the kits from the 1860's onwards where relevant and it charted the change with each team which ultimately became a deluge around the 1990s. The early kits are absolutely fascinating and one of the very first manufacturers were Butka an they dominated this field for the first fifty years. It was only after the 1920s that they started to be rivalled by the Humphrey Brothers whose kits were marketed as Humbro. When Saints won the cup the kit was manufacturer by Admiral. Radio 4 did a documentary about 2 years ago which charted the history of Admiral who were a very small company who grew extremely quickly and disappears almost as fast. I did not realise that although teams like Leeds also wore Admiral kits and think it was actually favoured by England at one point, the garments were notoriously badly made. I loved the idea of the red sash ( the sash originally being chosen by many teams because in the Victorian era clubs often bought standard, plain kits and sewed a sash on to them to make them unique) and would not be disappointed if the club delved back in to it's history and cam up with a similar historic Saints kit. Maybe they could bring back the blue shorts with the red and white stripes ? However, the Victorian kits are something else and it is a shame that there is a lack of creativity in so many kits these days.
There’s always been a Subbuteo League. Somewhere I have the 1990 Subbuteo World Cup on video. Yes really.
Do you mean this site Ian? http://www.historicalkits.co.uk Wasnt the sash in our original kits an actual sash that they wore over the shirt? Sure I read that somewhere and that the captain used to wear it on the opposite shoulder.
