Comments on: Vintage Kit Advertisements

By: John Devlin

John Devlin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:14:05 +0000

It was not always the norm to have sponsors on replica shirts John. I guess back then they thought who in their right mind would want to parade around with Sharp or JVC on their shirts! I owned several Liverpool kits from about 79-86, and none of them had sponsors logos except for the first adidas kit of 85-86. I think they were available though…they may have cost more.

By: john

john — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:20:42 +0000

how come most of those kits have no sponsors logos on? i’m referring to the later kits,the 1984 ones such as the ’sharp electronics’ Man Utd and ‘avco’ west ham ones.I had the Man Utd one and it had the sponsor on.

By: Rich Johnson

Rich Johnson — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:30:34 +0000

Shoot was my first ever footy mag when it caught my eye with the Mexico 86 review. I bought it for years until I grew out of it, though I’d still always buy it when the World Cup was on as they covered it all in their special supplements. In later years though, it went the same way as Match and was just full of tacky adverts and lame features to appeal to the so called text generation’. A great shame, but hardly surprising given the availability of info now available on the net.

By: David King

David King — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:47:25 +0000

Shame Shoot has now bit the dust, and is not only available as a Tesco’s football mag.
Shame Nobby, or You Are The Ref isn’t in it though.

Umbro run a serious of adverts earlier than your with 4 stripes on a page (slightly angled) showing 4 different club’s players in their colours, it was late 70s as all the shirts had the diamonds down the sleeve.

By: Denis Hurley

Denis Hurley — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:19:37 +0000

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

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:36:45 +0000

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