Remember the Dundee one, c 1979
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[Football] Coventry City's new third kit - 40 years of Two-Tone.
- Thread starter Stat Brother
- Start date
Remember the Dundee one, c 1979
The kits in the late 70s were the best ever.
Also stunning kits were orient & Birmingham
Would love to see some of these old retro kits brought back
Motogull
Todd Warrior
- Sep 16, 2005
- 9,909
I agree to some degree but be careful what you wish for. You can't be retro selective. If you get this era revisited you have to accept other eras being revisited as well. No pictures required. We all know the shite.
Nottseagull
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It’s just about the shit state of UK inner cities in general, at the time. Dammers has mentioned Liverpool, Glasgow and Coventry as inspiration. The club referred to is definitely Coventry.
Terry Hall has said, "When we recorded 'Ghost Town', we were talking about riots in Bristol and Brixton."
Coventry were the first team to have a kit sponsorship deal in the football league when Jimmy Hill, then Chairman of the club, negotiated a deal with Talbot, who manufactured cars in the city.
At one point they even considered going one step further and renaming themselves Coventry Talbot.
In those days it was also forbidden to display shirt sponsors in televised matches so all teams had to have alternative plain "tv kits".
I think this kit was a bit of a sponsorship overkill...
At one point they even considered going one step further and renaming themselves Coventry Talbot.
In those days it was also forbidden to display shirt sponsors in televised matches so all teams had to have alternative plain "tv kits".
I think this kit was a bit of a sponsorship overkill...
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As a random aside, I played played a gig with Pauline Black (The Selector) and some of the chaps from Bad Manners once and they were all ********s. Really quite sad
I have heard this about Bad Manners, when they played at Ropetackele in Shoreham a friend and staff member said they were the worst people they'd ever had at the venue.
I'm surprised to hear that about Pauline Black though.
Sad indeed . . . . nearly all musicians I've encountered over the years have been decent people.
brakespear
Doctor Worm
Now you're just perpetuating Stereotypes.
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