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Author Topic: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?  (Read 6205 times)

Offline Smithy

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Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
« on: March 04, 2011, 08:43:25 PM »
A Spanish journalist has claimed this shirt is from 'Aston Villa 1980' - but it doesn't look right to me (I was only 5, but I have seen shirts from that era and I don't remember a collar anything like this)





Has he got it completely wrong and it's a fake, or maybe it was created for a testimonial or something?  I actually quite like it, hence the question...
« Last Edit: March 04, 2011, 08:45:20 PM by Smithy »
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Offline cdbearsfan

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Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2011, 08:45:53 PM »
Looks like one of the knock-off ones people used to buy from the Swan Market.
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Offline damon loves JT

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Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2011, 08:46:20 PM »
It looks like it hasn't been ironed for over 30 years, certainly
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Offline bertlambshank

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Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2011, 08:46:30 PM »
Not with that badge.Fake.
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Offline cdbearsfan

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Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2011, 08:49:54 PM »
Nothing that looks particularly like it here.
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Offline Rudy Can't Fail

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Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2011, 08:55:44 PM »
My guess is it was a sample knocked up by Umbro but never chosen.
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Offline Wilfred the Hairy

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Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2011, 09:41:14 PM »
Oooh he's giving it away! All you have to do is identify two photos he's going to post on the morning of the Barça - Arse game ... and it's yours!!

Roll on Tuesday (or is it Wednesday)
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Offline eamonn

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Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2011, 10:06:06 PM »
Indeed Wilfred.

What the fook is Smiffy doing ''following'' a Spanish pundit? :o
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Offline Bad English

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Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2011, 10:07:04 PM »
Is that one of those desert camel spiders hiding underneath it?
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Offline The Left Side

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Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
« Reply #9 on: March 04, 2011, 10:20:01 PM »
I can tell if anything is fake or natural from 2 miles and it's fake, although I don't mind fake ones now and then!
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Offline Rico

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Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
« Reply #10 on: March 04, 2011, 10:35:33 PM »
110% fake!!!!!
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Offline Deano's Mullet

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Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
« Reply #11 on: March 05, 2011, 08:07:32 AM »
http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Burnley/Burnley.htm

Looks more like Burnley's 1980 top with a fake Villa badge sewn on instead.
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Offline eastie

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Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
« Reply #12 on: March 05, 2011, 08:24:38 AM »
Our collar definately wasn't like that in 1980- cheap fake.
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Offline Charlie8182

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Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
« Reply #13 on: March 05, 2011, 09:55:23 AM »
It looks like an 80s Scunthorpe shirt which Ian Botham would have played in.
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Offline TopDeck113

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Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
« Reply #14 on: March 05, 2011, 09:59:04 AM »
The answer is no. 

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