1980's Umbro City Shirts

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1985-87 player issued tracksuit worn by goalkeeper Eric Nixon.

Signed and kindly donated by the former City keeper into the collection.

 

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1982/83 First Division Graham Baker match issued long sleeve shirt with black SAAB sponsor which was changed to white a few games into the season at the request of SAAB for more visibility.

 

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1984-86 long sleeve match worn away shirt which featured over two campaigns in the second and first division.

Yet another simple but stunning Umbro design seen here featuring Jim Tolmie

 

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My favourite home shirt, with my favourite ground with my city door badges at my mum and dad’s.

Lovely shirt style mate

 

[jimharri]

If only them red stripes were blue

From memory, they were actually pairs of thin red and black stripes.

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

1985/86 First Division Paul Power match worn shirt from his final season at the club as a player.

Power would skipper the side making 36 league appearances before moving on to Everton who agreed to pay his City owed loyalty bonus as part of the deal to get the transfer over the line. Power was due the bonus on July 1st 1986 but chairman Peter Swales would refuse to pay if he left for Everton some four days earlier.

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My favourite shirt of the 80s

 

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1989/90 First Division away squad number 13 shirt from the single set of 2-16 shirts produced, originally designed to be used at Sheffield Wednesday on 1st January 1990 but forced in action on 14th October due to a shorts clash at Arsenal.

Blurry eyed blues were left rubbing their eyes as we trotted out in all yellow shirt, the last time we’d worn a yellow shirt as far as I’m aware was also in London at Arsenal’s rivals Spurs back in the 1960/61 season.

City duly got thumped 4-0 on a sunny afternoon at Highbury and rumour has it that club chairman Peter Swales saw to it that the kit was to be burned which is not entirely truly as it was donated shortly after by City director Freddie Pye, to one of his nephew’s friends to use for their Saturday/Sunday side called MMS who were managed by Liam Hall, the kit was used well into the 1990’s before the side broke up, a lot of players got to keep the shirts which the majority have long since sold on.

A few have surfaced more recently but were sold on by a dealer for huge profits.

The shirt has certainly become a holy grail of City match shirts for collectors

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Wish Id kept this one. Thing of beauty I loved it

 

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Wish Id kept this one. Thing of beauty I loved it

That's 90's ;-)

I bet you do mate as a it's a very sought after shirt and virtually impossible to find as match shirt which was used for two seasons 91-93 in both the Football & Premier League

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Last replica of this shirt sold a few weeks back for £970 !!

It was proper that shirt. Felt thicker, the pattern on it was deeper and it was dead smart