When Shorts Were Short FA Cup Special
When Shorts Were Short
English - May 14, 2021 11:44 - 1 hour - 58.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSports History football soccer sport sports premier league history culture art society Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
When Shorts Were Short only concerns itself with what was actually a very narrow window in football history when teams wore, well, short shorts. The podcast will only cover football from 1954, when Umbro made their first England kit with shorter shorts, a design that was widespread within English football by the mid-fifties, to 1992 when short shorts were all but finished as Umbro's baggy shorts for Tottenham's new kit, ahead of the '91 FA Cup Final, quickly caught on.
If the shorts weren’t short, we don’t talk about it.
The guest for this FA Cup special is author Matt Eastley. His trilogy of books, ‘When the FA Cup Really Mattered’ from Pitch Publishing covers the competition from the 1960 Wolves v Blackburn final to the tragic ’89 final played out in the long shadow of Hillsborough, and the story of the finals is told through the fans who were there. The books cover that thirty-year period where the FA Cup was firmly established as the greatest cup competition the game has ever known.
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