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Title: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: Smithy on March 04, 2011, 08:43:25 PM
A Spanish journalist (http://twitter.com/#!/maldinisport) 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)


(http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg619/scaled.php?tn=0&server=619&filename=pycxc.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640)


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...
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: cdbearsfan on March 04, 2011, 08:45:53 PM
Looks like one of the knock-off ones people used to buy from the Swan Market.
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: damon loves JT on March 04, 2011, 08:46:20 PM
It looks like it hasn't been ironed for over 30 years, certainly
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: bertlambshank on March 04, 2011, 08:46:30 PM
Not with that badge.Fake.
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: cdbearsfan on March 04, 2011, 08:49:54 PM
Nothing that looks particularly like it here (http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Aston_Villa/Aston_Villa.htm).
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on March 04, 2011, 08:55:44 PM
My guess is it was a sample knocked up by Umbro but never chosen.
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: Wilfred the Hairy 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)
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: eamonn on March 04, 2011, 10:06:06 PM
Indeed Wilfred.

What the fook is Smiffy doing ''following'' a Spanish pundit? :o
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: Bad English on March 04, 2011, 10:07:04 PM
Is that one of those desert camel spiders hiding underneath it?
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: The Left Side 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!
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: Rico on March 04, 2011, 10:35:33 PM
110% fake!!!!!
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: Deano's Mullet 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.
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: eastie on March 05, 2011, 08:24:38 AM
Our collar definately wasn't like that in 1980- cheap fake.
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: Charlie8182 on March 05, 2011, 09:55:23 AM
It looks like an 80s Scunthorpe shirt which Ian Botham would have played in.
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: TopDeck113 on March 05, 2011, 09:59:04 AM
The answer is no. 

Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: darren woolley on March 05, 2011, 11:12:22 AM
Its a snide.
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: Legion on March 05, 2011, 12:16:19 PM
Looks fake to me.
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: UsualSuspect on March 08, 2011, 09:48:35 AM
fake

Reminds me of being in kardamena in Kos a few years ago and the owner had all football shirts on the wall and he proudly showed me the shirt "worn by Tony Morley when Villa won the championship"

It looked fine apart from it was the le coq kit that we didn't win the title in and the sleeves were turquoise.

Cock
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: VillaZogmariner on March 08, 2011, 10:10:35 AM
The best fake I ever saw was in Thailand in 2009.

Blue shirt, Claret Sleeves with the old badge on it and ACRONS across the middle.

Bloke selling it was adamant that it was the real thing!
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: UsualSuspect on March 08, 2011, 10:47:38 AM
My mate bought one back from the Far East and I must admit it was bang on until you looked at the badge and saw "Ashton Villa"
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: supertommykN'iba on March 08, 2011, 10:55:53 AM
After the GAIS game in Sweden, someone tried to flog us a shirt with 'DWS Invespments' on. There were a couple of other things clearly wrong with it, but that stood out.

Some may find it sad, but it's quite entertaining reeling the sellers in and letting them down, like those in overseas markets trying to sell you a 'Manchester Football' Shirt as real.
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: VillaZogmariner on March 08, 2011, 11:06:59 AM
My mate bought one back from the Far East and I must admit it was bang on until you looked at the badge and saw "Ashton Villa"

Wasn't there a team in Ireland called Ashton Villa, or was it Ashtown Villa?
Title: Re: Is this old Villa shirt genuine?
Post by: Dave Cooper please on March 08, 2011, 12:25:52 PM

Wasn't there a team in Ireland called Ashton Villa, or was it Ashtown Villa?

Ashtown.
They merged with Kinvara Ards to form Phoenix FC a couple of years back.
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