Something like violet or turquoise with yellow trim would be different from other clubs. Red or white again would be extremely boring.
Has anyone on here ever bought a GK shirt? I’ve purchased many WFC shirts over the years but have never thought to buy a goalie top. Perhaps it’s just me.
I got the purple "Burrda" '11-'12 one (in an end-of-season sale along with both h&a tops) and got the sleeves professionally shortened (too much actually as I wanted them at elbow length) - but I never get to wear it as my current squeeze keeps nicking it for a nightie. I really wanted the blue Burrda '10-'11 one as well, but being a cheapskate I waited for the end of season sale but couldn't get one...
I decided to wash my car at the club after my morning work. At first it was sunny but after a while the sun went in and I became quite cold.I put my new shirt,which I keep on my passenger head rest, on top of my tennis top.I kept it on when I picked up some lunch from Simmons. As I waited for my order a rather stout sixty something man, sitting ten yards from the counter said 'you wearing that for a bet?' I approached him and said ' I beg your pardon?' He muttered 'oh nothing'. I returned to wait for my sandwich and said 'enjoy your salad' as I left. Sap.
I worked the away turnstiles at that game and was still cashing up at half time. After several jumpers early on, and one kid trying to get in paying 10ps and pennies the turnstiles were rammed. My memory has it that all the six turnstiles for the away fans were cash gates, that could be wrong, but mine definitely was. I remember having just over £3.5k on me (1000 entries) and getting police protection to walk round the front of the Rookery to the office under the Main stand. Importantly the police told us to hold our foot down and let the turnstiles spin with about 15minutes of the game gone given the crush outside. Thus I estimate something like 1,100-1,200 went through my gate that day. That would put the number of Liverpool fans on the terrace around the 6k-7k mark, well over capacity. Indeed we couldn't walk round the front of the Rookery as normal and had to walk along the pitch to get to the office.
I’ve just seen the new Adidas Wolves kit, it’s a thing of beauty. How come Adidas have produced something so nice for them ****s and given us a striped debacle?
It reminds me of the Adidas t-shirts of my youth except I didn't have a big 'W' on my chest. That particular detail was on my forehead written with a black marker pen. The big 'W' also reminds me of the film It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World where a treasure chest was buried somewhere under a big dubble-yer. Cracking film with all the stars of the day in it from Spencer Tracey, Phil Silvers, Terry Thomas, Ethal Merman and so on and on... Anyway, the Wolves kit has no such treasure beneath it and neither is it filled with stars past nor present.
I like the Wolves kit (especially the away), but if we had that template it would be very similar to last year's number, so I'm glad we have tried something different even if it has divided opinion.
That Wolves shirt just looks the same as ours from the season just gone. Plain colour with some trim in a different colour. The stripes have moved from sides to shoulders but it's probably just a template refresh. Dull.
If it was that horrible stripey shirt, stout guy had a point. I can only assume you bought the kit because of the carrot pocket in the shorts
It isn’t necessarily. But I like variety. Leicester seem to have the same kit every year and I prefer a bit of innovation.
I preferred it when teams wore the same strip for a decade and fans didn't waste money buying replica shirts every year
I preferred it when there was no VAR or goal line technology, or when players didn’t theatrically fall over after an opponent had blown in their face. Modern day football is a ****
The theatrical falling over thing used to be the exclusive preserve of fancy dan foreigners, especially the Latin types but of course now everyone does it. We used to be told it was part of their culture and considered ‘clever’ to con the referee, but I wonder how they got away with it. Were their referees not as good as ours or was there really a superior British sense of fair play?
Thanks for the reply.. good to get it from the horses mouth so to speak. In that link i posted the Liverpool fan there was talking about a 5 thousand ticket allocation but he estimated 10K away fans in the ground. Football fans usually exaggerate such matters but with other parts of the ground there might have been 8-9k. I dare say the gate was well over the 28,097 official figure. He also stated that "Hundreds of Reds fans with tickets were allowed inside without any check at the turnstiles, a relatively common occurrence at the time" Probably quite a few without tickets as well.
In those days the away allocation was 8,000. That was both sides of the divided Rookery and the bend. I remember the game well. In my opinion there were well over that in the away end. I have never seen it that full. I'd estimate 10,000 in the Rookery. So I reckon well over 30,000 that day. Will never forgive Roger bloody Milford We could have won the cup that year.
So when do we get to see the exciting reveal of the new away strip? (which really could be anything they could dream up)
There is a lot of stylish Adidas kit on display at the World Cup so we might follow one of those templates. Luv the detail on the German shirt. Would like us to do something different this year. Return to blue a la Brazil or Sweden away shirts - both shades? Anyway likely much better than Dryworld or whatever it was called!
They didnt have the whole Rookery though.. so 5,000 would have been about right, tickets or no tickets.