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Who Remembers........90s Football Kits? (With Tyrone James)
A single shirt can hold a lifetime. We dive into the loud, risky magic of 90s football kits with guest Tyrone James, a writer whose away-day blog treats journeys with as much care as results. Together we unpick why that decade’s designs still hit: bold patterns, fearless sponsors, central badges, lace-up collars, and goalkeeper tops that looked like artworks or accidents depending on the angle. It wasn’t just fashion. The shirts stayed around for seasons, gathered memories, and fused with heroes in a way modern churn rarely allows.
We start with England’s grey away from Euro ’96 and the split reactions it still sparks—Gazza’s brilliance, the semi-final ache, and the way a result can rewrite a design’s fate. Then it’s Schmeichel’s 1994 turtleneck Manchester United goalkeeper kit, a jagged symphony of colours that should not work but does when worn by a giant. We talk keeper culture too: long sleeves as a badge of honour, why short sleeves feel wrong, and how a number one’s shirt carries its own mythology.
From there, we celebrate Sheffield United’s 1992 home with its lace-up collar, thin pin-lines, and Umbro’s meticulous touch—heritage and modernity stitched together. Liam brings the sleek Celtic 1998–99 away, all charcoal and fine lime hoops, proof that subtlety can still turn heads and stir rivalries. We close on a cult treasure: England’s 1990 third kit, a light-blue shimmer worn once in Turkey yet immortalised by photos and the World In Motion era. Along the way we trade honourable mentions—Croatia ’98, Fiorentina’s Nintendo magic, Norwich chaos—and unpack how a shirt becomes a memory you can wear.
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Hello and welcome to the podcast Who Remembers? For this episode, we are asking Who Remembers Ninety Four Castle B.
SPEAKER_01:Hello. So I'm here, as normal. Liam's here, aren't you, Liam? Yep, I am. Yep, he is. But we've got a special guest today, and it is Tyrone James, who does a blog, which I you haven't really got a title for it, have you? It's it's just called Tyrone James, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00:It is, yeah. Yeah. Not so secret diary of anyway dear blade page, whatever it is, time and went and record it. So yeah.
SPEAKER_01:It's it's a phenomenal, honestly, genuinely the one of the best uh away day blogs out of anything I've seen from any sort of farm because you you obviously go into more about the journey and things like that, which I I I think most a lot of people overlook. I used to like that about Shore and View when he did Dark Johnny, is that 20 minutes would be about the journey and there'd be two minutes about the match, and yeah, so I really it's really really good to check that out. But he's come with his specialised uh subject today, which is nighties football kits. Um, so what we're gonna do is Ty's picked three of his favourite football kits from the 90s, me and Lee's pick one each, and we'll just have a general chat about it, really. What do you find so fascinating, Tyrone, about 90s football kits?
SPEAKER_00:Uh well, just how buried they are. First of all, like obviously thanks so much for having me on. Um I'm honestly like, yeah, I'm really excited to be here. So that's really nice. Um, and to talk about a subject like this as well. I just I think uh it's uh it's such an informative time uh in my life from you know the age that I am growing up watching a lot of football in the 90s. You become obsessed with players, you could become obsessed with like the kits and no more so than the colourful kits that we used to have in the 90s at football. So yeah, it's just something that that's that's really you know, I've been a little bit more than that.
SPEAKER_02:I think all we say 90s is probably pinnacle kits. I think that's certainly when you sort of associated your favourite player with a specific kit. I think kits change that frequently these days, or it feels like that. There were certain players that used to, you know, Cantonar or whoever it might be that you associate with a very specific kit. I I think that's gone away a little bit now.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I think that's a good point now, because I was gonna mention that I don't think it's just nostalgia from people our age group. I think 90s were uh I just funnily enough, I did a pinch podcast yesterday and we were talking about United kits, and we're talking about like how in the 80s they were a bit bland, weren't they? They were like sort of do you know what I mean? It were just like red or red and white or whatever. And then sponsors came in and a little bit more, and now they're all a bit identical. You've got everything's made by a DD sort of Nike, and you could take the United badge off the Sheffield United badge off our thing and put it on a start badge and no stokeshire and no one would really tell a difference. How dare you? Yeah, how dare you? I the nighties were proper, sort of like a really cra. I mean, even the fucking refs had green kits. Well, remember like when that came out, that was like a map. They obviously who's the bastard in the black, and I remember like the big thing, but like, oh, what can you chant about the ref now? Because obviously he's wearing green. Uh, but I think it were a really, really creative time for kids, the nighties. And I think yeah, as we'll get on to we'll probably do some honourable mentions at the end, but you don't really get mad kits anymore, like everything's just a bit too safe for me now. And I do think this was was the golden uh era, and as Liam said, and I think he's spot on, but because you you had them for two or three seasons, you do associate certain players in those kids, whereas now you can't really you know how old were you, Ty, when uh in the nine when so 1990, how old were you then?
SPEAKER_00:Uh I would have been seven, yeah. Seven, six, six, six, six and a half, seven. Yeah, so just a shot of the nineties.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, we were eight. So I think yeah, this is again, I think that's another thing as well. You're just starting to get old enough to to sort of see I want that kit, uh asking your parents for certain kits. But yeah, I'm I mean the one thing I would say is I am absolutely not an aficionado, and I love I love that word, and I love how you can apply it to kits. I think you two probably are much more aficionados than me, so I'm I'm kind of happy to go with your knowledge on this. But what's the format, uh Andrew? Do you do you want to go through Ties kits first?
SPEAKER_01:Or do you want to Yeah, we'll go through Ties kits first. I just want to ask me for you are you a kit collector, Tyra Own, or is it I it's I I I I've I uh I have been previously it's it's difficult these days because like um I speak to my friend Sam about this all the time.
SPEAKER_00:My friend Sam is a probably a bit more of a collector than I am, but it's the prices of like retro kits these days and old kits and to collect, it's become really, really expensive, you know, like through COVID-19. They got really, really expensive where everyone decided just to uh start a little collection of kits. So the prices um so I don't really tend to collect as much of what I used to, but yeah, I'm still uh an uh an appreciator of a nice kit.
SPEAKER_01:Definitely what what kit do you want to go with first, then as well, one of your f three favourites of the 90s?
SPEAKER_00:I'll um I'll start with uh the 1996 England away kit. Oh interesting one last year. Uh like you said, Liam, I think our kits these days it's every every year you get a different kit, where I think this one it might not have been started in '96, but it was certainly that, you know. And I think there was a there were a bit of controversy around this kit as well. The the grey England kit that we wore, and uh, you know, we we went we went to semi-final that year, didn't we? In the um in that tournament. And um, I think there were a bit of controversy around this kit because a lot of people didn't like it when it first came out. You know, there were a grey Man United kit around this same time period.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, we're gonna bring that up actually, yeah. Yeah, but that the kit Man United kept losing him and they and they ended up changing.
SPEAKER_02:They lost the tier and then they said they couldn't see each other, didn't they? In the great chair, that's right.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, yeah. What a ridiculous excuse that is.
SPEAKER_02:I think that's quite clever almost that they've they've fallen into a pattern of bad results. So they almost sort of said, Well, it can't be yours, it can't be the players or the team, it must be the kit. And and by changing it, it kind of allowed them to go again and reflect. Yeah, like I wonder whether we could do something similar this season, actually. Like it's Sheffield United have been amazing today. It's not the players, it's it's not the manager. Let's just change, let's just go with a mad sort of pink, purple diamond kit and see what's going on. Yeah, just loads of colours on it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I've got a controversial opinion here though, Tyro. Um I don't really like this kit, and I think it's purely because it reminds me too much of that semi-final that you were talking about in Euro 96. It reminds me of misery. The fact it's great, it just reminds me like I suppose I'll I'll come in, I'll come in at that point and say that yeah, it does, you know.
SPEAKER_00:I I can't think of Gareth Salk getting this kit, alright? I just can't. But yeah, the player that I'm thinking about when I think about this kit is I'm thinking that like Paul Gascoin, you know, and he was a good hero of mine growing up. Yeah, yeah. That we talked about like the 1990 World Cup was the first proper football tournament I remember watching, and obviously, you know what happened with with with Gaza there. But by this point in '96, he was, I would say, probably peak of his powers. You know, he'd scored that goal against Scotland in the in the group game, and that and I know he missed the he missed a an open goal against Germany in that semi-final by that and injured.
SPEAKER_01:Honestly, as you mentioned, that this always happens when that brings we might do Euro 96 as an episode one day, but that is the most like sort of shiver because we would have won the final and it were golden goal. We had Czech Republic at the final. I I think Keegan's brilliant on it as well. It's like it's horrible commentary, but it's just like oh, I've got my head in my hands now, it's breaking it back. I'm sorry to bring you out of it. This is why I thought it was.
SPEAKER_02:But what or I didn't when I first saw it, but I associate it with a really fond memory. Yeah, I know we fell short, but I love that tournament. That's that's one of my sort of peak tournaments. Uh yeah, I I loved the the journey. I I loved alright, we didn't quite get there, but it's one of the first tournaments I remember really engaging with all the way through and watching all the games, like as much as I could I took in. And and yeah, this this kit, despite the first time I saw it being something that I thought, uh, I'm not sure about that. It it does associate with me, like uh yeah, ultimately we fell short, but uh but a great time of being a football fan. I really love that tournament.
SPEAKER_01:I think it's interesting that kits as well, it a lot of them like the success of the kits is how is also the success of the team. I don't know what England were playing in, for instance, when they didn't qualify in 2008 or at Euros with McLaren. I can't think of that kit. It might have been one of the best kits of all time, but it's never going to be remembered as that because obviously we didn't qualify.
SPEAKER_00:So no, no, um that so yeah, I I I associate like all Gascon wearing this kit, and that's that's why I like this kit so much. I had it, you know, I had the it was probably I think this was probably the first shirt where I actually got you know splurged out and actually got the name on the back of the shirt. But I think I just remember sitting Gaza because obviously, you know, pretty expensive.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, but I remember I might have mentioned it on air before where my dad, when um he said, Oh, you can have a name at back at ship, but uh back in my Sheffield United shirt, but it only allowed me to have flow. There were three letters. I want a lighthouse, like you're not you know, flow, and that's that.
SPEAKER_00:I didn't bother having it. Yeah, yeah. So that one is the first one that I wouldn't talk about, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:What about your second one?
SPEAKER_00:Okay, so the second one is gonna be quite difficult to describe on a uh on a podcast, but it's it's the Man United goalkeeper kit from 1994. And again, just associating like what Lane was saying about players and kits. Uh Peter Schmichael, another massive hero of mine growing up. Um, and this kit, I had this kit, I wore it. Uh when I was playing football and when I was not playing football, I wore it quite a lot, even though you know I'm a Chef United fan. And at that point, Man United were the biggest club in the country, and he was one of my heroes. Um, so this is the goalkeeper kit. The sponsor is sharp. Um, it's got green sleeves and like a blue sort of um blue body. Um, but the the most iconic thing about the kit I love is the fact it's like a turtleneck, uh, one of those turtleneck kits.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's how that's all that, yeah. I didn't notice that actually. When you said the kit, I've seen this kit. I I didn't realise that that were a turtle. Like he's going out. Like he likes it like going closer.
SPEAKER_02:It reminds me of almost like uh a wetsuit because it's got the sort of collar around the neck and and on the cuffs as well. It's got the sort of tight fitting cuffs. But I mean, I've said before, I know you're not allowed to have a second team. I've grown up watching Man United because my dad's a Man United fan.
SPEAKER_01:So And he's allowed because he's Irish, so that's allowed in this, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, there's a there's a yeah, there's a there's a just like a there's a loophole in there where Irish people are allowed to support Liverpool and Man. This this is another strange one for me, because I absolutely love that kit, but purely because I love seeing Petit Schmiel in that kit. I think in isolation, if you'd switch badges and you make that uh a forest or a palace kit, I think I would be saying that is absolutely repulsive. But I have so much affection for that kit purely because of what it reminds me of, and that that I suppose is the is the power of the kit in your memory, isn't it? It's associated to it to a player or a moment or a game or yeah, and and it's a weird one for me because I think the kit is so badly designed, but I love it.
SPEAKER_01:It's weird, it's really weird as a kit, and this is what I mean by the 90s. Another one that reminds me of this is uh it's not that one more bright than what I'm talking about. So with David Seaman, you know, with the 9090, I think it was 94 England kit, but it's all red and it's got like England across it, it's about 20 billion colours. Yeah, I nearly bought that, I nearly bought that, and I thought, I don't know if I can pull that off in my 40s, to be honest, because I'm not entirely sure if I can get away with it. But that one's brilliant, but it reminds me a bit of that where this is what I mean by the 90s kids, particularly got obviously George Campos were another one, the Mexico goalie uh used to create his own kids and they were all mad. You never see this anymore. Like I'm I'm just looking at it now, it's so shit.
SPEAKER_00:There's a lot of um there's a lot of things.
SPEAKER_02:You know, like when you first kind of got on uh I don't know what they like acorn computers or something when we were at school, but they were and you first got into like a sort of graphic design package and you just did some wacky shapes and made them different colours. It reminds me of that, like some sort of teenagers just got hold of a basic design package and thought, I'd tell you what, we're gonna love this.
SPEAKER_01:But it's so nighties, it's a fantastic pick for a nice kit because it's so nighties.
SPEAKER_00:Um and say again, this is not really so much the kit itself, but the badge in the centre of the kit as well. You don't tend to see that so much anymore.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, well funny enough, when we get to mine, that that's one of the things I love is is a central that central badge and central sort of kit maker. I I don't know why, I just I really like that.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's interesting I'd start on because obviously your first one had a badge in the middle as well, didn't it? The England badge in the middle of that. I don't think England have ever had that since. Or before, I can't think. Obviously, the on kit were the same, but that that that I think they've had sort of third kits or training kits.
SPEAKER_02:I'm not sure if main kits, if they've had many England with a central badge. I I mean again, I'm not an officiano.
SPEAKER_00:Officially, there was a reversible kit that we had a few years ago that had it had red stripes on the on the sleeves, but then you could turn it inside out and think it was blue. I think that had a badge in the centre, but you're right, I don't think there's been many more than that, not recently that I can.
SPEAKER_01:No, because they said that the the that England kit you're talking about, they were took they were saying like, oh, it's two kits for the price of one. It's not it's not real, is it? Like, do you know what I mean? You're not halfway through your day turning it around, I'm like, I've got to keep new on today, lads. No, not uh yeah, I could but the butt I'm looking at the back now with the Schmeichel thing on the back. I don't know if you've if you've seen that I don't know if you can get this on now, Liam, but like put the back of that kit on, it's just ridiculous. Like just like there's no like triangles all over the place.
SPEAKER_00:It's just like it's just I yeah, I I I just like I that again, so again, you the players and the kit itself, but I wore this kit that much and washed it that much, it actually became you know, it becomes really, really bobbly and that sort of stuff. But I I loved it. I genuinely I think I wore it up to about 1998, 99, something like that.
SPEAKER_02:I asked Andrew the question, sorry. Were you were you a goalkeeper then?
SPEAKER_00:Is is that your sort of position that you played? Uh yeah, kind of. Yeah, it's just I I I've I've I've done it's like um about a bit like Chris Basham or like Greg Alfred, a bit of a utility player, really. I'll play where I'll play wherever there's space for me to be honest. But yeah, goalkeeper's always been something that a position I play in. I still play it now, you know.
SPEAKER_02:It's the one it's the one position, and I speak as a as a very, very low-level footballer that you can't fake. I I can't make myself see, like Andrew's actually not a bad goalkeeper. I can't dive for the ball with my hands. Uh it's shocking computer. I have to go for it.
SPEAKER_01:You always go with your legs, yeah. You like I don't know, you like some sort of like Renier Gita figure, like trying to do like these sort of like scorpion kicks and things when you're trying to save shots. I don't you can't fake a goalkeeper, can you?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, you you've got you've either got it or you haven't, and uh and I haven't, I'm afraid. But yeah, no, I did wonder. I've I I think a goalkeeping kit is quite a sort of rare choice. I don't think many people would necessarily go goalkeeping kit.
SPEAKER_00:I've just bought the and it's uh it's the first kit Chef and Art kit that I bought in a few years. But I bought the the goalkeeper kit this year, the black one. Really nice. Really, really nice. Yeah, and again, uh last time when I played well, attempts to play football, but you're right, Lee. The goalkeepers I'm sure every goalkeeper says this, but it is the worst position on the field because if you make a mistake, it's a goal, and then yeah, you feel really bad about it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you have a great performance, you're very rarely given much credit, are you? It's just an inconceive today.
SPEAKER_01:So yeah, yeah, because normally people just slaggy team off saying, How many chances did they have? All right, he's played all right, but the rest of them, right?
SPEAKER_02:You know, yeah, exactly that. Yeah, I tell you what I really don't like on a goalkeeping kit, and apologies, uh Tyve if this is what you've got or what you wear, but I I do not like a short sleeved goalkeeper.
SPEAKER_01:No, I'm not I don't like that.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, no, uh I'm a bit more traditional in that sense. Yeah, I am uh long-sleeve goalkeeper kit. It has to be, it has to be, you know. Yeah, just I might I might look like Fabian Bartes these days, but I won't be wearing a short sleeve goalkeeper shirt anytime soon.
SPEAKER_01:I don't like it. I I just think I don't know, I wouldn't feel comfortable like in it, and I don't know why. It's such a bizarre thing. It's like one of the perks of being a goalkeeper, like especially the early days, like before players had like long-sleeve shirts, it were really unusual for players to have long long sleeve uh shirts. That's one of the the glory, the best things about like being a goalkeeper that you can wear once.
SPEAKER_02:You can wear a cap and a long sleeve top, yeah. I mean, to me, it almost makes me think when I see a keeper in short sleeves, and I I know this is a big jump and it's slightly ridiculous, but it makes me think of uh Michael Douglas in falling down when he's got like a crisp white shirt with like short sleeves on it. For some reason, it it makes me think like that that looks far too formal for a goalkeeper. I've never seen that.
SPEAKER_00:Then Liam's gonna fall down to a film rabbit holding a completely excluding for a conversation, yeah. But I know exactly what you mean, Liam.
SPEAKER_01:I'm sure we're a good anecdote anyway, but um what's your third choice then, uh Ty?
SPEAKER_00:Um my third choice, I I couldn't not come on here talk about football kits and not include a Chef United when I get excommunicated from, you know, every single supporter group I'm part of, or every single friend that I've got. Um so I'm putting the 1992 um Chef United home shirt on there um with uh red and white straps, obviously, because it's a home shirt, but it's got the the um drawstrings, you know, the the laces at the top of the channel.
SPEAKER_02:By the way, I thought it was very good, but I think you said this is the first kit you you bought or owned, was it?
SPEAKER_00:It it was like the first kit that I properly like owned, yeah, like back in '92. So yeah, this is like what six, seven years old. Um, it was far, far too big, far, far too big for me, but I didn't care, you know, I loved it. Um, and this is weird because this is the outlier a little bit for for the kits, because I don't really associate a player with this kit either. Because I think I don't know, maybe because of the first kit I actually owned, I just uh you know, I was I was you know massive into my uh into Chef and I at that point. Obviously, by that point, I'm in for life, but I don't really associate a single player with this kit. I just remember I'd just uh you know a couple of years ago prior to this, I'd just started going to the lane. So I just think I was just pleased just to see anybody in this kit because I liked it so much, really.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah. I mean, I I it reminds me of Brian Dean because of that first Premier League goal, but I'm just looking at it now. I think I've got this kit, and I've never I've I've never sort of I've only just sort of realised that it's got obviously what's a really good thing about it is is the yellow outline of the lever, the the sponsor and the umbro as well, like the yellow the umbro are fantastic, obviously in the night.
SPEAKER_00:Bring back umbro kits, please. Just bring them back.
SPEAKER_01:Honestly, bring them back, yeah. They were absolutely superb. I mean, I'm I I know like Liam were talking. I mean, even Liam is not gonna like me saying this, but he brought it up himself last week or whatever it was. You liked the Wednesday Puma kit, didn't you? The black and was it yellow?
SPEAKER_02:So, what I liked was the the kind of Puma King that they almost had their own variant of Puma. I quite liked that Puma King.
SPEAKER_01:And you don't get them anymore, is what I'm reading. I brought it up, is you don't it's just purely an Edison Knight for the most part. Obviously, Herrera, whatever they're called, they obviously do a few kits, but Umbro did this is proper nice, it looks so classic.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, there's actually so many things you can comp like the the thin black lines on the outside of the strap. There's so much to like about this kit, and obviously we're we're all United fans and we're hugely biased, but oh no, but I'm not like to think that any neutral looking at that shirt, it it is a fantastic kit.
SPEAKER_01:Did you have the Premier League badge on it side when you bought it? Or I didn't know, no, I didn't. No, no. Good job. We went down a couple of years after, didn't we?
SPEAKER_00:I wanted I was thinking about longevity, Andrew, to be honest. Uh no, I didn't.
SPEAKER_01:And did uh I think did Man United also have laces at this time as well?
SPEAKER_00:Um there was another there was another Premier League club that did, and I think there might have been a couple of Premier League clubs that did. Um, but again, uh I know we're on the chat, but I can't remember.
SPEAKER_02:But were they for display purposes? Could could you actually tighten the shirt at the collar if you wanted?
SPEAKER_01:I don't know if anyone remembers this, but there was definitely at least a rumour that were going around that people like uh mums and dads were taking the laces out because they were flicking people, you know, you're playing football, flicking other people in the eye with it, right? So yeah, and I remember like I think Dane Whitehouse had a black eye one, he obviously probably just been in a fly. And all the like the rumour at school, oh, it's because of them laces, laces of it, his own laces of it in his own eye. So that everyone liked taking the laces out and stuff like that. But I don't know if I've got more laces still in mine, to be completely honest. I probably am. I'd be surprised. Have you got more laces still in yours?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, fantastic. But yeah, that uh so that that's that's my third choice, is that Chef United kit? It's just a beautiful kit.
SPEAKER_01:Just as well, the badge is fantastic on it. Not because it's Chef United badge, but the shield, the the sort of it's so big but doesn't look out of place as well. It's like a it's it's like a mix with like a 1800s kit and like a modern kit, even today, I think. Brilliant.
SPEAKER_02:I don't know by the way if the image sorry sorry, I don't know if the image that you sent Andrew is the same one he sent me, but it's uh Paul Beasley in the kit. But I've I'm I don't know if I've ever told it on the podcast, but I once went to uh Gosford. There was a rumour going around it's a couple of Sheffield United players were there, so we we could go and get a couple of autographs, and it were Paul Beasley and Simon Tracy. And uh it were all flights if Paul Beasley I'd I've seen him since and I like him, but they but they said um right, the guys are gonna go and stand at the back of the hall, you can go and get your autographs from which whenever you're ready. And everybody just lined up with Simon Tracy, and Paul Beasley was just sort of stood, sort of kicking his heels together, and I felt really awkward for him. Because don't get me wrong, I like Paul Beasley, but everybody wanted Simon Tracy's autograph in that that era.
SPEAKER_00:I I'd have been same to be honest.
SPEAKER_01:I'd have been same nothing against Paul Beasley, but fuck off Beasley. I might have got to Tracy, yeah. Simon Tracy wants nearly run me over. Uh I don't think I've mentioned that in the pod neither. Um and that uh it might have been my fault, I don't know. I were young, but I would definitely I was walking across uh it was Bramber Lane actually, walking across the I went to club shop or something like that, and he came round corner and I went, Oh like sorry, didn't realise, and he put rods up at me. He's only about 10 me at the time, like so yeah, gives no shits, that man, gives no shits. Liam, do you want to pick out your kit that you chose to be uh uh uh your favourite 90s kit?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, so I've gone, I I assume you've both seen it. I think it's 98.99. It's the only kit I think I've ever paid for with my own money. So you've got my island kit though, aren't you? Yeah, you say it is. I I don't know if if that's true or not, but yeah, apparently I've just got your island kit somewhere. Um but yeah, it's a Celtic 99 98.99, I think. Is the it's kind of a dark I'm not very good with colours, it's like a blacky, really dark grey with the sort of hooped thin lime green bands around it. It's got the central umbo umbro badge, central Celtic logo. And despite the fact that I've worn various Cheffy United shirts around, again again, I I've not paid from either my my dad's bought me a Chef United shirt.
SPEAKER_01:Ripped them off the back of a young of a young Paul Beasley, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I've I've won a France away kit, um I've won an Arsenal kit that I got my mother got from Eddie McGaldrick, a Yuller Island kit. But yeah, that that Celtic kit, I was once playing football on the field near my house, and it's the only kit I've ever won that I've been abused for wearing. Really?
SPEAKER_00:Really? Lots of ranges.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, a couple of guys walking past and started shouting, you fucking Celtic bastard! You fucking like really like aggressive. Like, yeah, I was like seven, sixteen, seventeen. Um, and yeah, even in the small town of Drumfield, it's the only time I've ever had abuse for wearing a football kit.
SPEAKER_01:I love that kit. I'm not getting involved in the Ranger Celtic thing, so I'll probably get killed. I will say, Celtic kits as a whole are better than Rangers kits, in my opinion. Like the hoe man in a way. I don't know if you agree with that, Tyro, or no.
SPEAKER_00:I I I do, I I think they're they're they're really unique. Um, and talking about getting abused wearing a football kit, I wore an Argentina kit at one point, like late '99, 2000s, and I got a bit of a stick at school here. So we've been there, we've all been there. I've got an Argentina kit now, actually.
SPEAKER_01:I've got the Argentina, I love it. The Argentina, do you know the Maradona drug kit, as I call it, where he does the crazy eyes into the camera? Yeah, it's a proper nice kit, and I bought it purely because of that moment where that's such a legendary moment, and you associate that kit with that moment. But on to this one, Liam. What I like about this, I've never noticed it's got two Umbro signs in the middle. Like I've never seen that. Why? It's got like a massive umbro in the middle, then a uh sell it badge really small, then another Umbro above it.
SPEAKER_02:Double Umbro, yeah. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01:Double Umbro. Yeah, uh when did Umbro stop doing kits? It must have been around this year.
SPEAKER_00:I'm I'm also looking at this kit as well. I'm thinking about again, like you said, associating players with it. Would I have been right? Henrik Larson would have been around about this time in this kit. Yeah, I just try and think about which players I would have seen in this kit, really, because it is uh I love it, I think it's a beautiful kit, it's really nice. And like I said, very unique as well. I'm all big fan of that. But yeah, it would have been Henrik Larson, maybe. Yeah, okay, well, I'm just looking now.
SPEAKER_02:My favourite, I mean it's a very sort of textbook answer, but my favourite of the Celtic players, and I and I love that he obviously came to Man United and scored a like an almost horizontal diving header. I don't know if you remember that. Yeah, yeah, I remember that. Yeah, unbelievable, yeah. But yeah, no, I I mean I I I I kind of could have gone. There's several United kits that I I really like. There was a late 80s one, which obviously doesn't quite fit into this brief, but the very thin stripes, red and white. I I really like that one with the very thin stripes. I'd like to see us go back to a much thinner red and white stripe, actually, because I I really like that. But yeah, as I say, I I've gone for it because I think it's the only one I've ever actually paid hard cash for.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I think that's fair enough. I'll get it before I get on to mine, I might go through a few honourable mentions if you want, and then you can but just these are not good kits, but ones that remind me of the night is the Norwich 93 kit. Do you know that looks like someone's been sick on it? That sort of reason was Jeremy Gosh. Jeremy Jeremy Gosh, yeah, Jeremy Gosh yeah, when he beat by a Munich. That reminds me of the nights. It's awful that kit, but I imagine it's proper got a really unique place with Norwich fans.
SPEAKER_02:Uh was it Brian Gunn in that, or is that too early?
SPEAKER_01:Brian Gunn, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Brian Gunn, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Um would it have been sorry, wouldn't it have been Mark Robbins in this kit as well? I'd have thought that.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, Mark Robbins, yeah. Um the whole tiger kit were another one that stood out to me. Do you know it's literally just got tigers across there? It's fucking awful.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, horrible.
SPEAKER_01:Um, but that would have but some good ones. Uh the Croatian 98 away shirt, I think it's brilliant. The blue one, you know, the checkered. Obviously, they were a new nation in terms of football around that time. I think as well. Yeah, they're on the I think that might be the first World Cup. The Man United Green and Yellow Kit. I think Man United have had some amazing shirts in fairness. The black kit that Canton ordered is, and what's he say, Jonathan Pierce? Where can there be a place in the game? Um, West Germany 1990 is a fantastic kit. Do you know what?
SPEAKER_00:I was gonna put this on my list, but I thought with the efforts of not bringing a West German kit into this given up to the but it is a beautiful kit though, it really is a public kit, isn't it?
SPEAKER_02:Black and yellow trim, is it that one?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, with the you know that the diagonal sort of thing. The barge kind of quite hard hitting as well, like almost like feels quite like throwback to sort of World War II. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You want to say leave it, Liam? Like I know I know where you're heading, I know where you're heading with that. Yeah, let's let's leave that. Um Florentina had the best sponsors, I think, in the 90s, which were they had seven up as once as a sponsor, which is an incredible sponsor, and then obviously Nintendo. Imagine Nintendo sponsoring you. That's incredible.
SPEAKER_00:I had the Nintendo Fiorentina kit, yeah. Did you think 75% of reasons because you had Nintendo on Yeah?
SPEAKER_01:I can't play shot.
SPEAKER_02:I'm gonna have a quick look as you carry on, Andrew.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, for your mate's in it, Barty Stuter. He used to wear like doing his nodding after the uh yeah. Uh well and not just to keep bringing up island kits, but the opal island kits are really interesting because yeah, they had a sponsor that obviously had a sponsor, which is really unusual even today on obviously international kits. But the reason he had a sponsor is because basically the Irish FA was in that much of a financial hull, they had to have a sponsor for the kits. They had this Opal kit, um, with the all these river dance, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah, either that or the pogs, yeah, doing it. But uh but yeah, but the one I've actually picked is England's third shirt from 1990, which they never actually wore in a tournament. If people don't know, can't remember this one. It it's it's pretty much all blue, but it's got these like weird sort of diamonds in it as well. Um and the whole kit's blue as well, like the blue shorts and blue socks, light blue. I love this shirt. I I mean I've I were gonna buy a replica of it, but I don't think it quite I don't think the replicas when I've seen them quite nail how Good the original was, if you know what I mean.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I think uh when we talk about like our kits, this is a perfect kit. And and and you're right. Uh um Andrew, I don't think uh the replica people that design these different kits now when try and buy this kit online, it doesn't look the same as what this kit does in in all the photos and pictures. But it's it's it's beautiful, it's really nice.
SPEAKER_01:I've seen people in it and you think, oh, that's nice, but it's not that kit, it's not the same, and it's not just the umbrow badge that's not there on the replicas. I don't know what it is, it's just it's a different shade of blue, I think. It's it's a lighter blue. I love the blue collar. I think one of the reasons I really like it, probably subconsciously, and I didn't re I did a little bit of research into this, is that it were only ever actually worn once by England, he only ever wore it in uh a 1-0 victory over Turkey in 1991, and uh Dennis Wise scored in that game of all people. Is it a third kit then, and not in a way? It's a third kit, yeah. So they had it at the World Cup in case they were you know a kit. I can't think he would have played in white and red or whatever. But if England couldn't play the red kit's really nice as well, and the white one from the 1990, which are we're gonna have. But this blue kit we're only ever worn once, which I think sort of adds to it's but what's weird about it is well, is that Bernard Sumner on the World in Motion video of No Order, he's wearing it rather than any of the home shirts. And I don't know why he's wearing this shirt. You know, I thought they'd been wearing like the English, I don't know if they just like tried to get him all in different kits or whatever, but he's wearing this blue shirt, and I think that adds to like almost like the cool factor of it.
SPEAKER_00:It's really cool, it is really cool. And I say just like the socks, socks and shorts, never normally the normally footnote, aren't they? Basically, you know that, but they're just so good.
SPEAKER_02:I I said to you, uh Andrew, before we recording, I I kind of thought this was probably the best of the five we've gone for, and then I actually said maybe this is the best of all the kits, I think. Of all the kits. It's such a nice kit. It's it's it it's like sunlight on on water, isn't it? It's like it's it's beautiful, it's like a work of art.
SPEAKER_01:I love the Napoli kits of the early nighties. I would nearly add that. The Mar, you know, with the big Mars thing. I think the Mars is a fucking unbelievable sponsor. I don't know why, I just think it works real really well on a kit. But I think this is almost I think this is slightly better than the Napoli like blue kits. And I think it's because there's a little bit more design going on there, it's quite gear-ish, but not in a not in a like a horrible way, like the Norwich kit we were talking about. It's it's really it's it's almost it's quite classy, but also quite cool as well at the same time. I think it sums up like nine 1990s quite well.
unknown:It does.
SPEAKER_02:It does, yeah. Very, very, very impressive, yeah. And I I don't know, it's such a cool image of of uh Lineke you've sent as well. Like a fresh face Lineker and the the show just looks perfect, like it looks like sort of made of marble and it's just catching the light.
SPEAKER_01:Like yeah, yeah, I like how they wore it in Turkey as well, really sunny, but it looked beautiful. I might have to watch the highlights of that game back, actually. A 1-0 win against Turkey away in 1992 or 91, sorry, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:But see the Easter egg of Dennis Weiss scoring an England goal as well, isn't that scoring?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, now yeah, Dennis Weiss, yeah, of all people. Um, but thank you so much for that, sir. We're really because we're gonna do one of these anyway, and obviously, you're better. If you ever want to come on again, give us a shout. Uh I really, really did appreciate it.
SPEAKER_02:Can I just say Siren as well, by the way? I I'll be completely honest, I sort of thought, uh, football kits, is it is it gonna be a little bit dry? I thought that was brilliant. I really enjoyed that. It's it's actually impressive the sort of memories sparked from so certain kits.
SPEAKER_00:So you you guys are the gurus when it comes to remembering, so that's uh it's just you know you just give them a platform.
SPEAKER_01:I think we I think as we started this, we thought we were, and then as the like the episodes have gone on, we're realising we're not quite as it's a bit like I don't know, it's about being a footballer, you think I'm the best in the school, and you can play with the big boys and you're like actually not that good. But we do as best, and that's all you can do, innit, Liam? So it's amazing. Yeah, keep them.
SPEAKER_02:Genuinely, mate, you're uh you're welcome back on. If uh if there's anything else you decide to remember, then uh you're more than welcome so that was really good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh yes, I'll consider it. Yeah, yeah. Let's pencil that in, yeah. If you fancy that, let's pencil that in.
SPEAKER_00:Need something cheery lined up afterwards, I suppose. Just make sure it's not the end of like a really bad day or anything like that.
SPEAKER_01:Well, for once, I can reveal next week's episode because we've already um done it. So we've obviously following this off. The next natural uh obviously step after night's football kits is the Exorcist film. So we're doing that next. Yeah, so because it's Halloween.
SPEAKER_02:Reveal next too, actually, because that's coming out as the standard Tuesday edition, but then uh special guests.
SPEAKER_01:Well hang on, I don't know. I I don't know if we uh well what if we can get him in on time. All right, I'm gonna go back. We're gonna try for a yeah, we're gonna try for a double double header on Halloween week. So keep keep your eyes in tune for that. So if if you see the first episode come out on the Tuesday's normal, I think we're trying to try to bring one out on Halloween as well.
SPEAKER_02:So and yeah, make sure you check out uh Ty's blog. We should sort of post some sort of link. Yeah, I mean most people probably know of that more than this, I would say. You know, like I don't know, but we'll we'll I'm not saying we're gonna grow your audience by a massive amount, uh Ty, but we'll uh we'll share it anyway. You might you might get one or two of our fans on board that don't know of you.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I'm just pleased that there's like five people reading it, so that that's fine again.
SPEAKER_01:Right, thank you. Thank you again anyway, Ty. Yeah, cheers. Thank you again. Thanks a lot.
SPEAKER_02:Cheers, cheers, guys, really good. Thank you. Thank you.
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