Comments on: Modern Life is Rubbish…

By: Mike Humble

Mike Humble — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:05:42 +0000

To anyone who has posted information on this Admiral link I would love to hear from you if you knew people who used to work for ABC Hosiery or Cook and Hurst. We are trying to piece together what happened with the Admiral brand between the early 1920’s and the late 60’s as our history is patchy. If you have any info or know any family members who worked at the factory let me know. mike@admiralsportswear.com. Thank you!

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 24 May 2011 05:48:44 +0000

Hope so – looks like things are happening !

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Admiral/91914954725

By: John Devlin

John Devlin — Sat, 21 May 2011 19:19:19 +0000

They look pretty good don’t they Steve? Wonder if the’re part of the new era of Admiral now that its been taken over?

http://www.truecoloursfootballkits.com/truecolours/new-owners-for-admiral

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:40:42 +0000

i’m waiting for a reply from admiral hong kong as i found this while searching for old admiral kits – hk400 sounds a lot but its about 30 quid !

http://admiral.com.hk/products-page/

By: John Devlin

John Devlin — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:13:40 +0000

How much are they going for Stu?

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:29:09 +0000

I’ve seen sets of the mid 70s Admiral England tracksuit on eBay recently, ‘new’ and boxed, unfortunately they were only done in kids’ sizes.

By: Mark Gowland

Mark Gowland — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:46:14 +0000

love the books. Proper shirts and no sponsor logos or names. Remember having a Palace shirt with the logo down the sleeve, similar to this years kit. First shirt I bought my son was a York City admiral shirt with the coventy style hockey sticks. Wonderful memories, somebody would make a fortune if they made these designs available again.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:15:06 +0000

I found this forum via a google search for the Spurs (yellow) shirt from 77-79, it was my first Spurs shirt and i spent many a detention due to wearing it in class as soon as it was clean again, this shirt along with the white home version were my entire wardrobe.

I loved the Admiral designs along the sleeves and collars, before this company took the game by the scruff of its 30 year basic kit collar the kits were like subutteo teams, one kit = approx 12 differing sides (if you recall).

I wore out at least 3 of the away shirts until the silky poorer looking & feeling basic shirts arrived in 80.

Now I spend my time searching for another one for old times sake…….

ps – Spurs.com are selling the original 77-79 white home shirt complete with Admiral logo’s sleeves/ collar from end Sept 08!!!!!

By: David King

David King — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:34:59 +0000

Strange how nobody has ever challenged Admiral over their use of templates.

Whilst Leicester, Luton, West Ham and Spurs Away were all a bit different.

The sleeve stripes of Leeds Away, were similar to Englands, Lots of clubs had the sleeve stipe full of small admirals. (C Palace, Southampton away etc), and the shorts tended to be either a stripe with the admiral signs, or two stripes.

It’s a shame that you started your books a couple of seasons too late to enclude most of these shirts.

I have Soccer Stars albums for this period if you need pages scanned, plus various pictures from the period (albeit mainly for Division 1 (as it used, and should be called), clubs.

By: Superleeroy

Superleeroy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:13:52 +0000

Hello ,

My name is Lee and ive just joined this forum so i thought id say hi !

Thx

Lee