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When Shorts Were Short - Euro '84 special with Patrick Barclay
Manage episode 295522898 series 2838257
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-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 Euro ’84 special is one of the finest football writers these islands have produced, Patrick Barclay. 37 years ago, he was making his name at The Guardian. With the paper’s chief football correspondent David Lacey away with England on their South American tour that summer, Paddy was one of a handful of British football journalists sent to France to cover the 1984 European Championships. Incredibly, simply because none of the home nations had qualified, only two matches from this tournament were shown live on British TV.
It was the greatest international football tournament of the last 40 years, giving us peak-Platini, Tigana, Scifo, Elkjaer and more, but barely anyone in the UK saw it…
Instagram @shortswereshort
Facebook shortswereshort
Links
The Perspective Football Podcast
France v Portugal 1984 European Championship semi-final
Spain v Denmark 1984 European Championship semi-final
Football’s Greatest International Teams – France ‘84
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/when-shorts-were-short.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Manage episode 295522898 series 2838257
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-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 Euro ’84 special is one of the finest football writers these islands have produced, Patrick Barclay. 37 years ago, he was making his name at The Guardian. With the paper’s chief football correspondent David Lacey away with England on their South American tour that summer, Paddy was one of a handful of British football journalists sent to France to cover the 1984 European Championships. Incredibly, simply because none of the home nations had qualified, only two matches from this tournament were shown live on British TV.
It was the greatest international football tournament of the last 40 years, giving us peak-Platini, Tigana, Scifo, Elkjaer and more, but barely anyone in the UK saw it…
Instagram @shortswereshort
Facebook shortswereshort
Links
The Perspective Football Podcast
France v Portugal 1984 European Championship semi-final
Spain v Denmark 1984 European Championship semi-final
Football’s Greatest International Teams – France ‘84
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/when-shorts-were-short.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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