Book Launch Celebrating Spurs Kits Through The Years

[Sandwich Technician]

https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/2018/december/the-spurs-shirt-launches/

This book charts the history of our colours and showcases all of the Tottenham Hotspur shirts through the ages, who wore them, and what history was made wearing them.

For me this book is very interesting as the shirt is the sole reason I support Spurs. In 1979 my family moved out of Peckham to the darkest depths of Essex and I as a nine year old boy to a new school. In my class there was a kid called Nikki who was rather good at football and whenever we had games he wore the home Admiral shirt with the logo detail down the shirt sleeves and the big flappy collars. I suppose I had a bit of a man crush on him as he was the cool kid in School and he looked totally snazzy in his gleaming white Spurs kit. A very uncool reason for supporting Spurs! But I count myself lucky as living in Essex it could have just as easily have been a Southend United or Colchester Town kit he was wearing!

I was wondering if anyone else had any interesting or funny stories regarding our kit?

 

[Dougal]

Got my first kit in 87 after the cup final. Wore it for PE at school. Some **** robbed it off my peg.

 

[Sandwich Technician]

Got my first kit in 87 after the cup final. Wore it for PE at school. Some **** robbed it off my peg.

Nice kit that year, no wonder someone nicked it!

 

[TheChosenOne]

Jay-Zooce !!

Miss, ouch

 

[TheChosenOne]

The only shirt i ever bought as a kid was the 1960's green GK jersey with nothing but a white Spurs shield/badge which my Ma sewed on. Big Pat was my second favourite behind Jimmy Greaves. Everyone had the Number 8 on their back and I wanted to be different.

Logo free back then of course. I think it was an Umbro shirt.

 

[Sandwich Technician]

I have only ever owned two shirts, I used to have the 1981 Le Coq Sportif strip as a kid and my brother bought me the blue Adidas away strip from 2001 which he found in his local Save The Badger or whatever shop. He said it had been gathering dust in the window for over six months so he took pity on it and bought it. It's a good looking kit but I'd never wear it these days and so it hangs gathering dust in my wardrobe instead! Somehow I got into the ridiculous habit of touching the badge on every match day otherwise we'd be in for a tonking! Thankfully now the alchemist Poch is our manager and I can dispense with the superstitious rigmarole as remembering to do it every match day was getting really bloody tedious!