Football shirts (it's a mans thing)

Joannekerry

Found a website that does football shirts from years ago and for the true footie fanatic "all I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit!!!" or so the song goes......and the woman in the Prague footie shop who couldnt understand why the Brits went mad for the shirt but knew about the song!!!

http://www.toffs.com/?awin=1

2005CLAIRE

No West ham! What's all that about then lol

PeteM

2005CLAIRE wrote:

No West ham! What's all that about then lol

Just click on "W" on the Team Index, then page down a little on the subsequent page, we (sorry, West Ham) are after West Germany.

You got me worried - thought that they had sold out as they are so popular!!

2005CLAIRE

Doh, it's all the claret I've been drinking!

tommyj_2

2005CLAIRE wrote:

No West ham! What's all that about then lol

Cos they only sell football kits mate

Says the Sunderland fan...

littlereddevil

Have just ordered oh a 1970's shirt. He should be well chuffed.

Silent_Bob_3

They don't do Villa shirts as Doug wanted the monopoly on them and they are only available from the club shop. As for Dukla Prague:-

The Legendary Dukla Prague Away Kit
The name Dukla recalls a World War II battle at Dukla Pass in Slovakia where Czechoslovak and Soviet troops defeated occupying Nazi forces in 1945. Dukla Prague football team was established by the Czech Ministry of Defence in 1948.
The team won their country's First Division championship 11 times and finished runners-up seven times. Its famous players include Josef Masopust, European Footballer of the Year in 1962, and Zdenek Nehoda, who won a record 90 caps for his country.

Due to government links, the team could afford to ignore the transfer market when it needed new players and simply draw on the large resources of the armed forces.

But their predominance suffered after 1989 when clubs such as Sparta Prague acquired major sponsors. None of the new enterprises would touch Dukla, which was tainted by its communist past.

By the end of the 1993-4 season, Dukla had slipped to the third division and was forced to sell off players; its spectators barely outnumbered the stadium staff.

The team's saviour, entrepreneur Bohumil Duricko, made the first move to restore Dukla's former glories by buying second division FC Pribram, merging the teams and appropriating the latter's spot in the higher league.

Dukla Pribram, with a cash injection, returned to the first division, finishing sixth last season. This year (that was a couple of years ago now), under another new name, FC Marila Pribram, they were beaten by Aston Villa in the InterToto Cup.

At the time of the song (1986) the away shirt was gold with maroon arms and trim and a large Dukla Praha badge in the middle. The home shirt was the reverse - maroon with gold arms.

Joannekerry

I suppose the thing is do I buy the England 66 shirt with the World Cup coming up? Or do I base my buy on our last two matches and forget it and keep me fingers crossed!

Josie_Jump_3

You should also check out https://www.philosophyfootball.com they do some great football shirts.

rwgibson98

Am happy to endorse TOFFS - I was given a 50s style shirt a couple of Christmases ago, and it's still looking great. Unusually for this market, most of these shirts are pure cotton, so they're a lot more comfortable and cooler than the nylon or polyester of the current shirts.

I went back and bought a couple of others for myself and friends; there was a very slight delay of a couple of days with the order. I guess the rarer shirts are made to order, but the quality is superb.

littlereddevil

Received it 2 days after ordering
Good service and quality