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It's a hangover from the previous regime, which did a deal with a hopeless kit supplier, who can barely supply shirts for the first team let alone replicas. And indeed couldn't even do a royal blue for a while. In essence it offered five Nike templates and Ren Xuandong picked one. The change kit is an even more bog standard Nike template in red with black trim, but doesn't look too bad. The penguin stripe is not as common as you'd think, only from 1971 to 1975 and for occasional seasons afterwards. I'm not keen on it because it's usually too wide, especially to fit a sponsor.
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Pitch Invasion at Gateshead - in a hearse!
bluearmyfaction replied to Molotov's topic in Misc Other Fitba Chat
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Black Scottish Footballers
bluearmyfaction replied to football maniac's topic in Tartan Army Ramblings
Just wondering what to make of this, from the North British Daily Mail of 17 May 1880... ...the only Louis Baretto I can find in the records is described as a "lascar sailor" born in Bombay, who was 31 in 1881, and who was on the Ravenna - which sailed between Glasgow and London at census time so he is on both the Scots and English census. Could they be the same person? Could he be the first Asian-ancestry player in British football? Especially relevant given Andrew Watson used to play for the Maxwell club... -
New kits thread 23-24
bluearmyfaction replied to Forest_Fifer's topic in Scottish League 2 General Chatter
Loving the Dumbarton home shirt, mix of sixties and seventies. It's the kind of shirt you'd expect to see for one of Melchester Rovers' opponents. -
Of those not mentioned: Satellite - Pistols Public Image - PiL Marquee Moon - Television Oh Bondage Up Yours - X Ray Spex Science Friction - XTC (are we counting Reward by The Teardrop Explodes as being punk?)
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Is it time to arm officials? It would be a throwback to 1882... (this is not Airdrieonians, but the 1868 club; it's notable how much the newspapers were willing to report on violence in matches when the perpetrators were, like Airdrie, made up of Irish immigrant players; the question is whether this is because they were genuinely more aggressive on the pitch - it's certainly a tendency found in reports in relation to 'country' clubs - or whether this was editorial prejudice)
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Top 3 Scottish League Club Names
bluearmyfaction replied to PauloPerth's topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter