Vintage Kit Advertisements
Posted by John Devlin
Probably like a lot of male 30-something football fans I was sad to hear about the closure of long-term football magazine ‘Shoot’ last week. The publication was a football institution as far as I was concerned and although it had lost its way over recent years I still have fond memories of poring over its pages as a small boy, looking at the latest kits and seldom seen away outfits.
I was lucky enough to come across a whole batch of Shoot magazines from the late 70s/early 80s recently and although the replica kit market was still relatively new I was delighted to see them packed with some memorable ads for replica outfits. Here are a selection of them:
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June 28th, 2008 at 11:36 am
I was an avid reader of Shoot during my younger days in the 1980’s and 90’s, always bought it every week until my attentions started turning to other football publications. I too used to always find out about the latest kits when they got released, back then of course the likes of Shoot used to be the only resource given the lack of the internet.
I’m rather saddened to hear about the magazine’s demise
June 28th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
As was I, used to love getting every Thursday (two days later than England here in Ireland!). Used to love seeing the ads for sports shops and seeing all the different kits, especially the ones from abroad