Does anyone know the origin or anything about this shirt? Its a 2003-05 shirt that i came across online and is a youths size. Is it a custom one-off or was it used in a youths side? Anyone have any ideas or seen anything like it before?
The team had separate sponsors for the youth teams that season, with Toshiba covering the first team.
Ahh i see, nice one cheers. I thought it may be a youth team thing but i also thought it could be some ripoff fake shirt but That explains it thanks
Great pic, is that Mapps in there? Love the idea of the Retro Solvite sponsor, not sure itd work on this seasons shirt tho
It is mapps in the middle, I believe the blonde lad fourth from his right was Jordan parkes but could be mistaken, and I think on the far left is toumani diagouraga. not sure on the others.
So im assuming itl be a matchworn or at least match prepared shirt as itd never have been available to buy
Yes would have to be a match issued shirt. Solvite were our academy sponsors at the time. Looking at the our youth team no.7's back then three names stand out.. Ryan Gilligan (Ian Gilligan's son) Alex Campana and Al Bangura.. plus a few other i hadnt heard of. Had it been a reserve team shirt it would most likely have been Ashley Young's though i presume they had Total on their shirts, the same as the first team.
Forgotten it was that early. Makes it all the more odd that the Premier League were using our old badge when we got promoted in 2006... https://web.archive.org/web/2006061...mmand=forwardOnly&nextPage=enClubDetail&id=41
Isn’t that the same badge we have now? At least I can’t see any difference. This was the previous badge:
It's small and somewhat faint if you enlarge it, but if you zoom in (Ctrl + mouse arrow away from you if you're viewing the page on a computer) you'll see it uses the lower case font of the old badge. Like I said, it's bizarre that they should've still been using the old badge in 2006.
Oh I see, you mean at the top of the page. Gotcha. The main pic of the badge on the profile page is right.
Yeah, sorry for the confusion, for some reason you can only get that banner if you click on one of the links to the club profile pages. Feels weird looking at that page from a time when optimism was still very much at a high in light of the season that followed, and where we are now.