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The obvious solution is to use the female tactic of not mentioning the purchase and then for it to appear in your wardrobe months later as if it has always been there.
Anyone know what game that was used in? I thought the season after we had won the UEFA Cup we had Pioneer as the sponsor, with Radio Orwell coming a season or so after that was displayed on shirts with the Viva Franka home and away kits.
Anyone know what game that was used in? I thought the season after we had won the UEFA Cup we had Pioneer as the sponsor, with Radio Orwell coming a season or so after that was displayed on shirts with the Viva Franka home and away kits.
How often does it get washed for that to happen to the advertising logo? Presumably "match-worn" refers to a fan wearing it to a match rather than it being worn by Mariner.
Anyone know what game that was used in? I thought the season after we had won the UEFA Cup we had Pioneer as the sponsor, with Radio Orwell coming a season or so after that was displayed on shirts with the Viva Franka home and away kits.
Don't recall us having an orange top while Radio Orwell were sponsors, there was a red/black striped one In fact, didn't they only sponsor us in the relegation year of 85/86?
I also thought Pioneer sponsored us from the season after the UEFA win in 81/82 when we went with pinstripes.
How often does it get washed for that to happen to the advertising logo? Presumably "match-worn" refers to a fan wearing it to a match rather than it being worn by Mariner.
The same seems to have happened to this shirt. In exactly the same way.
Something just doesn't look right to me. Apart from the obvious that Radio Orwell didn't sponsor us until 1985 (I think), the 2 pictures of the shirt look different. The cuffs aren't the same, and the adidas logo looks much smaller compared to the home and away kits that season, even the pin stripes are not in the same places as the other 2 kits. I would stay away from it.
Something just doesn't look right to me. Apart from the obvious that Radio Orwell didn't sponsor us until 1985 (I think), the 2 pictures of the shirt look different. The cuffs aren't the same, and the adidas logo looks much smaller compared to the home and away kits that season, even the pin stripes are not in the same places as the other 2 kits. I would stay away from it.
I’m pretty certain, and I stand to be corrected here, that we didn’t have a third kit when we changed to the French style horizontal blue home and white away kit in 1984. Pioneer sponsored those shirts for the first year and Radio Orwell took over in 85. When we had a clash for both kits in 1985, the old 1982-84 third kit was used and the radio Orwell logo printed on it. Hence the wrong sponsor for the age of the kit.
Edit. Actually I’m wrong. In 1984 we had a third shirt which was red with three thick black sripes running vertically down it.
I’m pretty certain, and I stand to be corrected here, that we didn’t have a third kit when we changed to the French style horizontal blue home and white away kit in 1984. Pioneer sponsored those shirts for the first year and Radio Orwell took over in 85. When we had a clash for both kits in 1985, the old 1982-84 third kit was used and the radio Orwell logo printed on it. Hence the wrong sponsor for the age of the kit.
Edit. Actually I’m wrong. In 1984 we had a third shirt which was red with three thick black sripes running vertically down it.
Something just doesn't look right to me. Apart from the obvious that Radio Orwell didn't sponsor us until 1985 (I think), the 2 pictures of the shirt look different. The cuffs aren't the same, and the adidas logo looks much smaller compared to the home and away kits that season, even the pin stripes are not in the same places as the other 2 kits. I would stay away from it.
I have a couple of matchworn shirts, and the badge always has that indentation to the left and the 'a' in adidas is always offset, so I'd say it's genuine. We also used this in a couple of games that year, the Orwell logo being added later. A Burley worn one came up a while back. Pioneer 81 to 83/4 season, so shirts were not thrown. The 'France style' shirt of 84 dropping the '81 winners', so the orange shirts were just adapted.
Yeah that’s the season before. I can’t find anything on this other than this tweet.
I'm prepared to be wrong but I honestly dispute we wore that shirt at all in that time period. That tweet also claims we used the orange in 84/85 which we clearly didn't otherwise we'd have worn at Loftus Road. Clubs simply didn't have the multi-kits that they do now.
I've tried searching for images/videos of us playing at WBA for that 85-86 season to no avail.
I have a couple of matchworn shirts, and the badge always has that indentation to the left and the 'a' in adidas is always offset, so I'd say it's genuine. We also used this in a couple of games that year, the Orwell logo being added later. A Burley worn one came up a while back. Pioneer 81 to 83/4 season, so shirts were not thrown. The 'France style' shirt of 84 dropping the '81 winners', so the orange shirts were just adapted.
I can't imagine anyone would go to the trouble of producing a fake that had those things wrong with it. I guess they wouldn't have sold replica shirts either. I suppose someone got hold of the shirt worn by the number 9 from that match, wore it repeatedly and washed it until the logo ended up like that.
Quite why anyone would spend anything like that amount of money on the shirt, though, is beyond me.
I can't imagine anyone would go to the trouble of producing a fake that had those things wrong with it. I guess they wouldn't have sold replica shirts either. I suppose someone got hold of the shirt worn by the number 9 from that match, wore it repeatedly and washed it until the logo ended up like that.
Quite why anyone would spend anything like that amount of money on the shirt, though, is beyond me.
Good investment. Non match worn Ipswich shirts from that period can go for several hundred pounds.
I bid for a 1988 red away shirt from around 1987 a few months back . Thought I’d get it for £250 but it went for a fair bit more. Those are like hens teeth. Very rarely come up.
I bought a 1981/84 away shirt signed by the whole 1981/82 squad and SBR about 15 years ago. I would imagine it’s more than doubled in value. Especially with the passing of people like Sir Bobby, Paul Mariner and Kevin Beattie.
There quite a few ITFC shirt collectors out there. Although like a Joe, this one is a little rich for me.
Well spotted! I stand corrected from earlier but no way did we wear orange in 84/5 if we already had red and black as a third choice.
Irvin Gernon. If ever a player summed up the transition from UEFA cup winners to relegation.
Certainly strange how that kit made a comeback. Perhaps they were the only spare shirts available without any sponsorship present which enabled them to stick Radio Orwell on them.
Well spotted! I stand corrected from earlier but no way did we wear orange in 84/5 if we already had red and black as a third choice.
Irvin Gernon. If ever a player summed up the transition from UEFA cup winners to relegation.
I had no idea we used that kit that long either, someone should do a full Ipswich Town kit history someday, the club must know what strips were used each season and who made them.
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