When Shorts Were Short S2 E10 - GARY BAILEY

When Shorts Were Short

English - December 23, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 55.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Previous Episode: When Shorts Were Short S2 E09 - David Snowdon on Sunderland 1981-84 (Part 2)

Next Episode: When Shorts Were Short S2 E11 - Iain Macintosh (Classic Kits 1954-92)

This week, I’m talking with Gary Bailey, the former Manchester United and England ‘keeper, son of Ipswich’s title-winning ‘keeper Roy and Gary himself, as we’ll hear, as part of Ron Atkinson’s very talented early to mid-80s side really should’ve had at least one league title winner’s medal of his own. He almost did, but not under Atkinson. The less stellar Dave Sexton side of 1979-80 almost landed a surprise title win in a neck and neck battle with Bob Paisley’s greatest Liverpool side, and had United claimed that unexpected title, the club’s modern history would’ve been very different.

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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