Let's be honest, we almost deserved to lose that game purely because of the kit.
You can just see the shame in Stefan Iovan's face can't you?
"honestly, I play in Ceaucescu's poverty stricken Romania for years, I put up with 10 year old clingy towelling adidas shirts smuggled in past the Communist officials, and I come to England, thinking at last I find fashionable clothes, western style, genuine American Levis. And they make me wear this!"
We had the kit for the next two seasons as well! Don't forget it was proceeded by the "pink" away kit. Add the NOBO sponsorship to the mix and we must have held the record for the worst kits in the league. Surpassed only by Hull City's "tiger stripe" kit.
I'd pay top dollar for an intact Adidas kit. Any of them from 80-81 to 85-86. I doubt if any decent examples are left, the ones I have seen around are normally faded to a kind of washed out pale blue.
In the infamous "Pink Nob" kit .... whoever was responsible for that should have been shot ... whenever we wore it that season away from home the opposing fans pissed themselves (and quite right!!! - the kit was crap!)
In my humble opinion this was the best kit we ever had .... didn't even realise we were supposed to play in stripes until we switched back in the early 1970s ....