Lenny Rider
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- Sep 15, 2010
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They probably never really recovered from the ‘Herald of Free Enterprise’ disaster
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[Albion] The British Caledonian Kit
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Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Sure to be City in my opinion. They have dodgy ways round ffp and probably are receiving $500 million for the pleasure.
Neville's Breakfast
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What an odious advert that was.
A few years back I watched an old episode of Clive James on TV, or whatever it was called, on YouTube.
They'd left the original adverts in, and it was quite difficult to tell what was being made fun of and what was just a straight advert for some sort of crap lager.
Shropshire Seagull
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I met Tony Millard several times - I used to play as a ringer for South Sound Radio Allstars in charity football matches for various good causes. He would play, get us the Albion kit to wear, and in the summer, rope in a couple of Albion players to help pull in the spectators.
Over the years I turned out with Danny Wilson, Terry Connor, Gary O'Reilly, + others and Chris Catlin too after he was dumped. Always with TM bossing the game, not from a footballing sense, but from a "I hold all the strings and it's my ball" kind of perspective. Never had any real run-ins with the fella but I could tell he wasn't liked by all ....
Think he played cricket for Haywards Heath too - just a bit full of himself.
Anyways, RIP TM 0898
Over the years I turned out with Danny Wilson, Terry Connor, Gary O'Reilly, + others and Chris Catlin too after he was dumped. Always with TM bossing the game, not from a footballing sense, but from a "I hold all the strings and it's my ball" kind of perspective. Never had any real run-ins with the fella but I could tell he wasn't liked by all ....
Think he played cricket for Haywards Heath too - just a bit full of himself.
Anyways, RIP TM 0898
A very good ad actually. Lighten up.
Neville's Breakfast
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I’m good thanks. I had the same opinion back then.
It's my understanding that the fans replicas, which were all blue, had 'British Caledonian'. There were no yellow replica shirt sold to my knowledge.
The players shirts had variously both 'British Caledonian' and 'British Caledonian Airways', not sure of the whys and wherefores, but if you have 'Airways' on your shirt, then it is definitely a players shirt. There's even a team photo with the players wearing both types in the same photo.
Here's mine.
Tamplins
Farah are still going strong.
Superphil
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Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Did they just have not enough of either option. I know we weren't that flush, but you would have thought somebody would have noticed at the time.Here you go, mixed messages
I said that to someone in the Alliance Building Society only the other day!
Inspired by this thread, I ordered one of these. Let’s see what it’s like when (if?) it arrives!
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Brighton & Hove Albion 1980-83 Home Shirt
Brand new modern repro of this classic Brighton shirt.
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Superphil
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No idea, I think they will have all been produced by adidas. Perhaps the original idea was to include ‘Airways’ but when they went to produce replica shirts, which were predominantly kids sizes back then, there wasn’t enough space for three lines of text so they dropped ‘airways’, and the team continued to use the shirts that had been produced already.
Yeah I did that as wellInspired by this thread, I ordered one of these. Let’s see what it’s like when (if?) it arrives!
Brighton & Hove Albion 1980-83 Home Shirt
Brand new modern repro of this classic Brighton shirt.
I'd prefer one of the yellow away version, but the club shop doesn't seem to sell those anymore.
dejavuatbtn
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My recollection was that BC insisted on a blank shirt and Bamber took the money. It went down like a lead balloon with the fans at the time.
Cotton Socks
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Did you honestly think that at the time though?
Look at the advert properly, they are all men in suits, all 'businessmen'. It was a time before someone cottoned onto the fact that you could sell holidays to 'families'. Rather than an 'odious' advert, it was an advert of it's time. We're probably looking at things in a diff way, to me it demonstrates how far our society has come within a short time (in a historical sense). It's a society 'time stamp', shame there isn't a company today that would be brave enough to put that out as a social experiment to see how far attitudes to women and their 'place' has actually changed. It's changed a lot for the good, I would expect a lot of men to have a twitter meltdown about that advert today. It's good to see how times have changed don't know exactly when that advert was done but in the early 80's women began to say eff off, I can do the same job as a man & started working in the city wearing power suits. It may have been something like that advert that annoyed women so much that they subconsciously (or consciously) started a change within society.
