When Shorts Were Short S3 E15 - KENNY HIBBITT (Wolves, Coventry and Bristol Rovers)

When Shorts Were Short concerns itself solely with what was actually a very narrow window in football history when teams wore, well, short shorts. The podcast takes 1954 as its starting point, when Umbro made their first England kit with shorter shorts, 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.

A leading light in that Wolves side of the seventies and first half of the 80s was Kenny Hibbitt,  a goalscoring midfielder, who wore the old gold with distinction for 16 years. A club legend, and I don’t use the word lightly. A guy who, as he tells us, played for the love of the game, and wasn’t motivated by money, turning down several opportunities to leave Moulineux during his long span of service with the club.

We look at the missed opportunities for Wolves to kick on from a position of strength after the League Cup successes of ’74 and ’82 and the darkness that swallowed up the club in the early to mid-80s.

Kenny runs us through his entire playing career, from the early days at Bradford Park Avenue to the final seasons at Bristol Rovers and the first chunk of his management career at Walsall.

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