[Football] Coventry City's new third kit - 40 years of Two-Tone.

[Invicta]

Belguim and Dundee too ,splendid design.

Remember the Dundee one, c 1979

 

[moggy]

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]

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

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]

Remember the Dundee one, c 1979

A surprising amount of orange in that!

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Read only yesterday, that ghost town was inspired by Glasgow. I actually thought it was Wolverhampton

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."

 

[marlowe]

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...

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Seems like it could be a dawning of a new era.

https://youtu.be/g9ys86GV0Lk

 

[zefarelly]

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]

I think they have gone one step beyond with that kit it and makes Coventry look like a bunch of gangsters.


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Now you're just perpetuating Stereotypes.

 

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

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.

I thought she came over well on last night's BBC 4 documentary about skinheads, available on iplayer:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07yv0qj