Kid Super

It reads like it's a one-off for a USA tour designed to rip a few more quid out of the fans before they're expectdd to shell out on the new 25-26 kit(s).

 

There's been a few people involved with Barnsley FC over the years who have been a difficult like. The Mayor, I saw straight through Paul Conway from the off, and I personally found the personalities of Paul Hart, Simon Davey and Keith Hill grated on me.

But superbabygoat is the most objectional skid stain I think I've ever encountered in any walk of life.

 

The day I met him, I’d just spent a couple of hours with a journo and photographer from the Times who was doing a piece on Archibald Leitch, and about our West Stand. I’d arranged that weeks ago and really enjoyed that sort of thing. I was always obsessed with the history of the place.

Bit of a comedown, meeting the fashionista.

 

unusual having the barcode displayed so prominently on the actual shirt!

 

You can see why the club thought it would be a great idea for us to work with him. But ultimately, perhaps unsurprisingly, it's done more for his career than it has for us.

I think it's absolutely fine for Barnsley FC and the New York fashion world to each do their own thing in their own separate ways.

 

I didn't think Archibald Leitch was the architect for our stand.

 

It wasn't Sam Leitch either - a Scottish legend on BBC Grandstand who looked like a blonde/ginger close cousin of Jocky Wilson and always looked like reporting was a brief interruption between pints of Tennents.

Died age 52.

 

I'm going to wear this with some Reece Wabara chinos.

 

Loved your millionaire wearing a cheap suit observation.

 

He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare
One of the low on whom assurance sits
As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire

t s eliot

 

Does that mean Man City saw his portfolio of other football shirts he’d designed, including ours, and thought ‘we’ll have some of that’?

 

I don't think so. He seems to be doing a lot of puma shirts so looks more like they've signed him up to design them

 

Not for the original West Stand, he wasn't. That was built in 1904 by all accounts. But was then pulled down, with Leitch's design erected in 1910. Which is still there today, albeit somewhat ba***rdised over the years.

Leitch wiki

There was this interesting post on the bbs about it, some years ago: https://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/archibald-leitch-oakwell-history.276768/

 

Thanks for that. I didn't know this. I thought I'd read somewhere that it wasn't his.

The biggest changes were obviously the addition of the sections on each end which were called the wing stands when I was a nip. It was cheaper in the wing stands than the the central (original) part of the stand. You used to be able to hire a cushion for the central area although I don't personally remember this, I think it had been phased out by the time I started going. My memory of it is people telling me. I do remember the wooden benches though.

I wonder how many Archibald Leitch stands still survive and are in use.

 

That white Man City kit with the double red and blue diagonal stripes, reminds me of C.Palace in '80.
Remember they had a young Clive Allen then, and for some reason they were set to become the team of the 80s.