- CR Smith. Originally this Scottish window firm sponsored both Celtic and Rangers. But their partnership with Rangers ended in 1987 and they became firmly identified as a Fenian company, most especially during Celticâs double winning season of 1987/88. They are not known primarily as a window firm but as a fellow Fenian traveller on glorious sunny days at the old Hampden Park.
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- ERG. I donât know what ERG is, but I know that when a group of Brexiter Tory headbangers decided to call themselves the ERG, all anybody thought was "why are they naming themselves after classic era Sampdoriaâs sponsor? But even the Tory headbangers stealing their name could not dispel the positive image of the real ERG, whatever it was.
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- Barilla. Still firmly established in my mind as a premium pasta brand due to their sponsorship of Roma. It was a genius move by whoever set up an Irish brand of pasta called Roma as this psychologically played on the positive image generated by the Roma-Barilla sponsorship deal.
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- Lubrax. Nobody knows what Lubrax is, but proper armchair football men - stattos - know that Lubrax sponsored Flamengo.
- Quilmes. Few of the vast army of keyboard Argentines such as myself have ever drunk Quilmes, because most of us have never been to Argentina, but we all know they sponsored both Boca Juniors and River Plate, and thus are identifiably Argentine, and thus there probably more than a few people worldwide who claimed online to have bought some cans of Quilmes for the World Cup final just gone, even though they didnât.
They had one jobâŚ
Football seemed much better back then.
But with no back pass rule, horrific pitches, hackers being tolerated and poor fitness levels maybe it wasnât.
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Who were they playing against and by extension, what ground? I wanted to say Southampton, but the stand Iâm not sure of. Middlesboro? But again, the stand doesnât sit right.
Kits look amazing though. The pitches were bogs, rules were shit as good players were kicked off the pitch. So rose tinted glasses alright. But the 70âs was when I fell in love with the beautiful game, Gilesâs Leeds and Nenagh AFCâs amazing junior team laying waste to all before them in Islandbawn. Those fucking 70âs kits though
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Ha, you bastard.
FA cup semi v Birmingham City at Hillsborough
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Didnât Revie bring in the all white kit due to the similarity with Real Madrid?
Yes, thatâs the accepted story anyway
Was Revie crooked?
Giles says in his book that there was never any proof of this and that Bob Stokoe had a pre-existing gripe with Revie. He would say that though.
Fantastic mate. Found the YouTube clip. The stand didnât sit right with me in the background.
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