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Iconic shirt sponsors

cabbles
cabbles Posts: 15,311
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This has probably been covered in the annals of CL’s 15 year history, but the BAXI Preston shirt came up on my Twitter feed earlier.  Perhaps not iconic in the same way you associate JVC with Arsenal or Sharps with Man Utd, but definitely reminded me of my teenage years trying to watch as much football as possible, regardless of the league.

What ones strike a chord from your youth? 
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  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    edited August 2021
    Holsten @ Spurs.
    Crown Paints @ Liverpool 

    Remind me of when i first started watching football.
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,604
    FADS: Charlton 
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,980

  • orpingtonRED
    orpingtonRED Posts: 3,474
    Nintendo- iconic shirt 
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 5,018
    Marman Ltd 😉
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,497
    https://fansfavourite.co.uk/blogs/blog/everton-and-hafnia

    That prompted me to look up who the hell Hafnia were! A Danish canned meat company apparently, who didn't even sell in the UK!
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,311
    PopIcon said:
    Holsten @ Spurs.
    Crown Paints @ Liverpool 

    Remind me of when i first started watching football.
    Agree.  The Liverpool grey kit was great, and of course we had our own with The Woolwich 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,147
    Newcastle being sponsored by Newcastle Brown Ale.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,777
    The most apt one was seeing loads of Palace fans walking around with virgin on their shirts.
  • SOTF
    SOTF Posts: 1,155
    Leicester City and Walkers. Best friend as a kid was a Leicester fan and associate it with kick abouts in the park.

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  • orpingtonRED
    orpingtonRED Posts: 3,474
    Has there ever been a supermarket sponsor in England?  Can't believe Tesco or Aldi have not jumped on a team unless they think it will put customers off.

  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,497
    There were more well known, but "local" sponsors back then, whereas these days, it's multinationals, betting or small local companies.

    Various regional brewers (Vaux, Greene King, Shipstones), Charlton and The Woolwich, Luton Town and Bedford Trucks, Palace and Virgin  ;)
  • roseandcrown
    roseandcrown Posts: 7,593
    Dagenham motors West Ham 


  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 7,019
    edited August 2021
    orpingtonRED said:
    Has there ever been a supermarket sponsor in England?  Can't believe Tesco or Aldi have not jumped on a team unless they think it will put customers off.

    Not sure about sponsors, but Tesco Value once made Brighton's kit.
  • orpingtonRED
    orpingtonRED Posts: 3,474
    I think Chelsea had Commadore...anybody under 40 probably don't remember Commadore 
  • charlton4ever
    charlton4ever Posts: 1,767
    Born and Bred in Woolwich they were a dream sponsor for CAFC in my eyes !
  • Boom
    Boom Posts: 1,695
    Mars - Napoli
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,297
    orpingtonRED said:
    Has there ever been a supermarket sponsor in England?  Can't believe Tesco or Aldi have not jumped on a team unless they think it will put customers off.

    Tescos/Brighton.
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 7,019
    Rangers - CR Smith
    Celtic - CR Smith

    Very sensible....
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Pirelli for inter, 26 years they sponsored them for 

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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,777
    cafcdave123 said:
    Pirelli for inter, 26 years they sponsored them for 
    Didn’t they get tyred of the same sponsor for so long?
  • orpingtonRED
    orpingtonRED Posts: 3,474
    Covered End said:
    orpingtonRED said:
    Has there ever been a supermarket sponsor in England?  Can't believe Tesco or Aldi have not jumped on a team unless they think it will put customers off.

    Tescos/Brighton.
    I don't think they ever wore a kit with tesco as sponsor mate. I may be wrong but never seen it.

  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,147
    orpingtonRED said:
    I think Chelsea had Commadore...anybody under 40 probably don't remember Commadore 
    I do!  Had a Commodore 64.

    Admittedly I'm not far off....
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,468
    HITACHI
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,468
    orpingtonRED said:
    Covered End said:
    orpingtonRED said:
    Has there ever been a supermarket sponsor in England?  Can't believe Tesco or Aldi have not jumped on a team unless they think it will put customers off.

    Tescos/Brighton.
    I don't think they ever wore a kit with tesco as sponsor mate. I may be wrong but never seen it.

    Waitrose sponsored Reading for seven years. 
  • orpingtonRED
    orpingtonRED Posts: 3,474
    Muller yogurt 
  • orpingtonRED
    orpingtonRED Posts: 3,474
    Chizz said:
    orpingtonRED said:
    Covered End said:
    orpingtonRED said:
    Has there ever been a supermarket sponsor in England?  Can't believe Tesco or Aldi have not jumped on a team unless they think it will put customers off.

    Tescos/Brighton.
    I don't think they ever wore a kit with tesco as sponsor mate. I may be wrong but never seen it.

    Waitrose sponsored Reading for seven years. 
    Well done that was bugging me to to think of one mate
  • orpingtonRED
    orpingtonRED Posts: 3,474
    Dagenham Motors iconic West Ham 
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,092
    Liverpool and Candy, Sheffield Wednesday and Sanderson for some reason (think they also sponsored Southampton)
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,800
    Redbus 

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