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originallambrettaman said:
Though that's a good site, they might well be wrong on that one, Les Motherby (who's most definitely our kit guru), states that in the 1921/22 season, the significant change for the season, was the switch to wearing white shorts with our amber and black striped shirts (rather than the black ones worn previously).
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I wonder, as I wrote, who supplied the original information? And why it hasn’t been pointed out to them and corrected? May be wrong but I think that at one time it showed the blue kits in the 1930s as sky blue and later altered it to the aquamarine we wore. Which is funny, as the colours on the original Hull City locomotive, which was built the season we played in that different kit, were skyblue and white not aquamarine.
 
PLT said:
A Leeds fan doesn't believe the match fixing allegations made against them, but does believe that an opposition team benefited from it against them. Fancy that.
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Yeah who would have thought that a vermin fan would produce an article pooh-poohing the the bribery story?

Just shows how wrong we've all been over the years about this unjustly- maligned football club.
 
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PLT said:
A Leeds fan doesn't believe the match fixing allegations made against them, but does believe that an opposition team benefited from it against them. Fancy that.
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The Milan one was, I believe proved. As was a similar instance against Liverpool involving Italian opposition.The referee in the European Cup Final in France Leeds lost never refereed a game again and was struck off the referees list. Brian Clough said he was told before a European game they would not win and then witnessed the most blatant exhibition of refereeing he had ever seen. It wasn’t just Leeds on the end of corruption in Europe.Just saying in the interest of balance.
 
PLT said:
A Leeds fan doesn't believe the match fixing allegations made against them, but does believe that an opposition team benefited from it against them. Fancy that.
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It seems the local Greek fans at the match (I assume it's the Leeds vs Milan final you are referring to) seem to have been convinced of the ref's "corrupt" handling of the game. Seems UEFA banned the ref subsequently.
Funnily enough, the MEP Richard Corbett, who organized a petition to contest the result of the game was on telly yesterday/today during the Euro vote coverage...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/f...-1973-Cup-Winners-Cup-defeat-to-AC-Milan.html
 
PLT said:
A Leeds fan doesn't believe the match fixing allegations made against them, but does believe that an opposition team benefited from it against them. Fancy that.
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Add too that it's a well known fact that Bob Stokoe often accused rival managers of offering bribes, oh...


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
 
TwoWrights said:
Next thing you know the liquid crystal will be invented at Hull University, enabling mobiles, laptops, LCD TVs et al.


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
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Got a lot of likes on the Guardian site, presumably from Hull folk, pointing out to some sneering Southerner asking what Hull had ever contributed to the country when it was awarded City of Culture that he was reading the article and commenting on it on something Hull gave us.Added a few other things, Venn diagrams, Parliamentary Democracy, abolition of slavery amongst them.

I actually saw the first liquid crystal display. We were organising the transportation to the USA for someone involved in its development and had to call at the university to see him. Was amazed at the clarity of it. At the time it cost the price of about 5 or 6 houses for a small screen. That was black and white though colour was possible even then.A chap said as costs decreased people would hang televisions on their walls and have TVs on their wrists like a watch. I remember as we left the lad with me rolling his eyes and saying we might see those things in a James Bond film but not in the real world. I thought the same.Were we wrong. In fairness this was when those massive digital calculators which only did basic calculations were still a novelty and cost a couple of weeks wages.
 
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I see Leeds Utd are celebrating their centenary this season.

FACT: Hull City were the first visiting team to play at Elland Road when it was the home of Leeds City and of course we won as brown envelopes were not yet part and parcel of the Leeds matchday experience
 
City Man said:
I see Leeds Utd are celebrating their centenary this season.

FACT: Hull City were the first visiting team to play at Elland Road when it was the home of Leeds City and of course we won as brown envelopes were not yet part and parcel of the Leeds matchday experience
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Ah yes. In the days when there were no refs & the players were not paid.
 
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