When Shorts Were Short S2 E06 - Steve Nicol

The guest this week is former Liverpool and Scotland, well, what was he? He could play so many different positions. It’s Steve Nicol. Arriving from Ayr United for £300,000 in October 1981, a considerable sum in those days for someone not out of his teens for another couple of months, Nicol would have to wait until Joe Fagan succeeded Bob Paisley a couple of years later for his first team breakthrough. This was the norm at Liverpool in those days. The club were now entering their second decade dominating the English game and even the likes of Terry McDermott and Ray Kennedy, established first teamers at Newcastle and Arsenal respectively, had struggled to hold down a regular place in their first two seasons with the club after arriving in 1974.

(Technically speaking, the '91-92 season didn't involve 'short shorts', with Liverpool being early adopters of the revived baggy look.)

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.

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Liverpool v Auxerre, 6 Nov 1991 UEFA Cup Second Round, 2nd Leg

Liverpool v Arsenal, First Division, 29 Jan 1992

Genoa v Liverpool, 4 March 1992, UEFA Cup QF 1st Leg

Liverpool v Aston Villa, 8 March 1992, FA Cup QF

Liverpool v Sunderland, 9 May 1992 FA Cup Final  

Steve Nicol - Compilation

Steve Nicol goals

Steve Nicol Autobiography - 5 League Titles and a Packet of Crisps

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