tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550434413100328064.post8619232233492882601..comments2023-12-21T14:52:18.256+00:00Comments on football rambles: History of the Real Madrid shirtNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11751909191928309314noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550434413100328064.post-73213469157307774562017-08-09T09:28:25.929+01:002017-08-09T09:28:25.929+01:00Fine page...congrats.
Just one error.
You have rep...Fine page...congrats.<br />Just one error.<br />You have repeated the commonly held view that Don Revie introduced the all white strip to Leeds United.<br />No he did not.<br />It had been introduced several months before his arrival.<br />And many local fans were still up in arms over the removal of their beloved yellow and blue colours, the same colours worn to this day by Leeds Rhinos RLFC,, and worn by the great John Charles when he scored his phenomenal 42 goals one season. Charles never was to wear the all white strip of his native town of Swansea - whose rugby team, talking of rugby teams, had been all white before Real Madrid, and whose choice of colours was emulated by the Swansea round ball team on its formation in 1912 - until he returned from Juventus for a brief spell circa 1960/61.<br />In an effort to quell the Leeds fans' complaints (which had a kinda curious reappearance three years ago in the "Vincent Tan switching Cardiff City to red" brouhaha, it was only THEN that Revie promised fans to get his Leeds team to play like Real Madrid.<br />Hope this clarifies things...it was not Revie's original idea, but the Chairman so decided, before Revie was ever appointed.<br />Daihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220486338347573818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550434413100328064.post-30125510246372358672017-08-09T09:27:14.542+01:002017-08-09T09:27:14.542+01:00Fine page...congrats.
Just one error.
You have rep...Fine page...congrats.<br />Just one error.<br />You have repeated the commonly held view that Don Revie introduced the all white strip to Leeds United.<br />No he did not.<br />It had been introduced several months before his arrival.<br />And many local fans were still up in arms over the removal of their beloved yellow and blue colours, the same colours worn to this day by Leeds Rhinos RLFC,, and worn by the great John Charles when he scored his phenomenal 42 goals one season. Charles never was to wear the all white strip of his native town of Swansea - whose rugby team, talking of rugby teams, had been all white before Real Madrid, and whose choice of colours was emulated by the Swansea round ball team on its formation in 1912 - until he returned from Juventus for a brief spell circa 1960/61.<br />In an effort to quell the Leeds fans' complaints (which had a kinda curious reappearance three years ago in the "Vincent Tan switching Cardiff City to red" brouhaha, it was only THEN that Revie promised fans to get his Leeds team to play like Real Madrid.<br />Hope this clarifies things...it was not Revie's original idea, but the Chairman so decided, before Revie was ever appointed.<br />Dai Woosnam, Grimsby.Daihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220486338347573818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550434413100328064.post-76335228309019266572014-01-07T06:21:52.186+00:002014-01-07T06:21:52.186+00:00In the history of Real Madrid football shirt. Diff...In the history of Real Madrid football shirt. Difficult to find, white home soccer jersey has always been his classic. <a href="http://www.wysjg.com/real-madrid-c-1_55/" rel="nofollow">Real Madrid home shirt</a> transformation has always been minimal.henkelnoreply@blogger.com