When Shorts Were Short S3 E03 Neil Palmer on Gerry Gow

When Shorts Were Short

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.

Probably every football fan of a certain generation, the ones this show has sporadically tried to connect with, will know of Gerry Gow. The long, prematurely greying locks, the bushy moustache, a hard tackling Scottish midfielder – how many times have we heard that – who for most of the country probably came to prominence during Manchester City’s resurgence under John Bond during the ’80-81 season when they went from being first division strugglers under Malcolm Allison to reaching both the League Cup semi-finals, for which Gow was ineligible and the FA Cup Final where Gow would lock horns with the Tottenham midfield at Wembley, one of the most stylish midfields of that era, in two epic games. But for Bristol City fans, where Gow spent the overwhelming part of his career, Gow was one of, if not, their greatest ever player.

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