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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 just don't talk about it. Support the show on Patreon Twitter ...
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Skit Your Shorts is a short stories sketch comedy podcast hosted by comedy writer, Dutch Foley, and an evil-ish AI program named, Plot Bot 9000. Each week, Plot Bot challenges Dutch and his friends with the task of making him laugh with hilarious sketches and short stories. If they fail to launch his giggle code, (01101000 01100001) he promises to initiate the robot wars and destroy all humans. Can comedy save the world? Find out in the next episode! While listening Skit Your Shorts, you may ...
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When Shorts Were Short S3 E22 - ALISTAIR ROBERTSON WBA and Wolves
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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…
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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…
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When Shorts Were Short S3 E20 Stuart Horsfield - Brazil '82
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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…
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When Shorts Were Short S3 E19 GARRY THOMPSON - Coventry, WBA, Sheff Wed, Villa, Watford, Palace, QPR
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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…
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When Shorts Were Short S3 E18 - Dave Bowler on Alf Ramsey and Ipswich Town 1955-63
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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…
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When Shorts Were Short S3 E17 - LEIGHTON JAMES (Wales, Burnley, Derby, QPR, Swansea, Sunderland, Bury and Newport)
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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…
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When Shorts Were Short S3 E16 Steven Scragg - Liverpool '81 - 82 (Paisley's Greatest Moment?)
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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…
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When Shorts Were Short S3 E15 - KENNY HIBBITT (Wolves, Coventry and Bristol Rovers)
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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…
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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…
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When Shorts Were Short S3 E13 - Paul McParlan on Everton '87 - The Forgotten Champions
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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…
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When Shorts Were Short S3 E12 - Terry Conroy (Stoke City and Rep of Ireland)
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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…
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When Shorts Were Short S3 E11 - Mike Keegan (Mail Sport) on Oldham Athletic 1989-91
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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…
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When Shorts Were Short S3 E10 - John Barnwell
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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…
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When Shorts Were Short S3 E09 - Chris Evans MP on Don Revie
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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…
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When Shorts Were Short S3 E08 Jeff Foulser - The Big Match (Producer 1976-89)
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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…
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When Shorts Were Short S3 E07 Alan Hinton - Wolves, Forest, Derby and England
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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…
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When Shorts Were Short S3 E06 Mark Adolph - Subbuteo
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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…
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When Shorts Were Short S3 E05 Barrie Tomlinson's all-time Comic Book Footballers X1
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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…
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When Shorts Were Short S3 E04 Alan Smith (Ex-Leicester, Arsenal and England)
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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…
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When Shorts Were Short S3 E03 Neil Palmer on Gerry Gow
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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…
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When Shorts Were Short S3 E02 - David Hunt (Scorcher and Roy of the Rovers Editor)
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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…
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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…
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Do you like clowns? Me either. Fishsticks? "Meh," you say. Okay, how about murder? Yeah, I knew I'd get you with that one! Who doesn't like a good ol' fashion murder? And why am I asking so many questions? Should I shut up now so you can listen to this funky fresh new episode? (In the voice of Kevin from Home Alone 2 via a Talkboy) You got it!…
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Self-written obituaries, hot new torture devices for spies, and time restraints to being polite
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What happens when you're sick and try to write and record a new episode of Skit Your Shorts? Well, you get this episode! So if it's painful to listen to, I blame it on the sickness that I am 100% not down with...you hear me, Disturbed? But if you do want to hear a story about obituaries, spies, and holding doors read in really awful accents, give i…
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Dracula discusses interest rates with his realtor, a perfectly good monster mash is ruined by a jerk, and special guest, horror writer, Cliff Bumgardner makes a killer dessert.
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I hope you went to the restroom before listening to this Halloween episode of Skit Your Shorts, cause it's sure to scare the poo right out of ya! Dracula hits up his realtor as he looks to downgrade his home. A fan of monsters attends a monster mash, but it's not the host he was hoping for. Special guest, Amazon bestseller in horror, Cliff Bumgardn…
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Air Stud: A Dog Wishes for No Catfishes | 80s Action Hero Man | So Your Cat Joined a Biker Gang. Now What?
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In this super rad episode of Skit Your Shorts, the short stories comedy podcast, a director creates a raunchy teen comedy script for dogs as a sequel to the Air Bud films, a toy manufacturer receives a script for a proposed 80s action figure, and advice is given on how to get your cat back after it becomes the leader of the toughest biker gang in t…
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The Time I Was Abducted by Pretty Chill Aliens | Debt Is Fun. Eat More Debt. | Opinions Are for Suckers Audiobook
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Can you believe it? It's a third episode that no one asked for! But if you're looking for some advice from a robot about improving your small-talk game, this one's for you. Dutch Foley narrates the stories this time, as Plot Bot is too busy listing off the 34,000 types of fish. Stories include butt-talking aliens, edible debt, and lessons on not gi…
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In the second episode of the smash hit (that nobody is listening to) comedy podcast, Skit Your Shorts, Plot Bot discovers the world wide web and all its dark secrets. Today's anthology of short stories includes Internet ghosts, lessons on subtly being a jerk, and farty friends. If that doesn't sell you, I don't know what will?! Perhaps the promise …
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In the first episode of this short stories comedy podcast, Skit Your Shorts, Plot Bot 9000 threatens to destroy all humans before reading three short stories. The first story, involves a nudist colony and concerns about nipples. Next, a proud father tries his best to ensure his helicopter baby grows up to be a wise mancopter. The last story, discus…
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This episode was originally a Patreon bonus show back in Oct '21. My first Classic Kits guest is Adam Riches, author of Football’s Comic Book Heroes, a comprehensive look at UK football comic strips, from their beginning in the early 20thcentury and taking in the 54-92 period that we cover. And Adam has chosen several strips plus his favourite ever…
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My guest this week is former Ipswich, Rangers and England captain Terry Butcher. We take a look at the second half of Terry's 1981-82 season when, playing for Ipswich in the FA Cup 4th Round at promotion-chasing Luton, he suffered a curious and near-fatal injury, one of the strangest injuries ever seen in English football. And yet somehow, Terry re…
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When Shorts Were Short S2 E13 - Lindsay Jelley (Admiral Sports Kit Designer)
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My guest this week is artist and landscape painter Lindsay Jelley who in another life was a designer and not just a designer, but the designer who through her work with Admiral from the mid-seventies to early eighties, whom she joined as a nineteen-year-old just out of art college, transformed the football replica kits market. Plus Twitter’s unoffi…
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My latest Classic Kits minisode guest is Mike Donovan, author of Football's Braveheart: The Authorised Biography of Dave Mackay. Mike has gone with several choices from the early sixties, the period when he fell in love with football and actually saw his kit choices live. When Shorts Were Short only concerns itself with what was actually a very nar…
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My latest Classic Kits guest is journalist, author and podcaster Iain Macintosh. Iain, like me, is one of those guys who’s been podcasting forever and I’ve been following his work for over a decade. Co-founder of Muddy Knees Media, in the summer of 2017, Iain, Ben Green (aka Producer Ben) and James Richardson, all left Football Weekly to launch the…
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When Shorts Were Short S2 E10 - GARY BAILEY
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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…
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This week, the second and final part of our David Snowdon interview looking at the ultimately doomed Alan Durban ’81-84 era at Sunderland. If you missed the first part, park this episode here and download the opening instalment and listen to that first. David, the author of Give Us Tomorrow Now, Alan Durban’s Mission Impossible, his take on the Dur…
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This episode (part 1 of 2), a look at Alan Durban’s ultimately doomed efforts in the early 80s to help Sunderland’s then young side realise its immense promise. David Snowdon, author of Give Us Tomorrow Now, is the go-to authority on Alan Durban’s Sunderland tenure. His 2018 book looked at Durban’s arrival at Roker Park in the summer of ’81 and his…
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When Shorts Were Short S2 E07 - Spencer Vignes
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This week's guest is Spencer Vignes, the author behind Bloody Southerners, which tells the story of Clough and Taylor’s time at the Goldstone Ground, and how those seven months together almost broke their working relationship for good. There’s a third protagonist too, for Bloody Southerners is also the story of chairman Mike Bamber, a colourful cha…
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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 …
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When Shorts Were Short S2 E05 - Bob Wilson (Part 2 of 2)
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Part 2 of our comprehensive interview with Arsenal’s ’71 double-winning ‘keeper Bob Wilson, also, of course, for an entire generation, the presenter of what was during his time with the show, the formidable Football Focus, the Saturday lunchtime preview show that existed within the BBC’s Grandstand. This week, plenty of ground covered with Bob now …
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This week’s episode is our first two-parter, a comprehensive interview with Arsenal’s ’71 double-winning ‘keeper Bob Wilson, also, of course, for an entire generation, the presenter of what was during his time with the show, the formidable Football Focus, the Saturday lunchtime preview show that existed within the BBC’s Grandstand. Bob had three hu…
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When Shorts Were Short S2 E02 - Steve Hunt
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This week’s guest is former Villa, New York Cosmos, Coventry, West Brom and England midfielder Steve Hunt. Steve’s recently released autobiography, ‘I’m with the Cosmos’ looks back at a playing career that saw him overcome an early blow when the club he supported, Aston Villa, transferred him to that mythical NASL club New York Cosmos. This early b…
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When Shorts Were Short S2 E01 - Paul Davis
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With guest Paul Davis. Paul Davis was a mainstay of the Arsenal side for 15 seasons. In this interview, we discuss his breaking through under Terry Neill at the start of the 80s, a side in transition after losing its two outstanding Irish internationals, Liam Brady and Frank Stapleton in the space of a year. We look at the Don Howe era, the bridge …
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With guest Harry Harris. 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…
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When Shorts Were Short - Euro '84 special with Patrick Barclay
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With guest Patrick Barclay. 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-fift…
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When Shorts Were Short FA Cup Special - Matt Eastley (Football Writer)
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With guest Matt Eastley. 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…
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When Shorts Were Short - Richard Sydenham (Football Writer)
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With guest Richard Sydenham. 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-fif…
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When Shorts Were Short - Simon Hart (Football Writer)
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With guest Simon Hart. 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 …
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When Shorts Were Short - Paul Power
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With guest Paul Power. 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 …
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When Shorts Were Short - David Dent (Former Carlisle and Coventry Chairman, and Football League Secretary)
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With guest David Dent. 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 …
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