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- Red short-sleeved shirt.
Deep red
v-neck, with a winged collar, edged with a
white and royal-blue stripe. White and royal-blue stripe
from neck down to cuffs along each sleeve seam. White and royal-blue
striped cuffs, two stripes of each colour. Emblem
on left breast on a white embroidered patch. Embroidered yellow logo
on right breast, overlaid
with 'Admiral' in royal-blue title-case lettering
at the bottom, all within a royal-blue border. White numbers on back
in standard Admiral font.
- White shorts,
with white drawstring, and a red and royal-blue stripe down the seams.
Ironed-on yellow logo on left thigh, overlaid
with 'Admiral' in navy-blue title-case lettering
at the bottom, all within a navy-blue border.
- Red socks, with
white and royal blue-stripe across tops.
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Variations |
Because each player was given a choice of
sleeve length, and later shirt material, for each game - choices that were
also changed at half-time by a number of players - it is virtually
impossible to define exactly what each player wore in each half of every
international. Video and photographic evidence is simply not clear enough
for all. It is possible, however, to identify the sleeve lengths worn in
every game and also the games where each variation was
introduced. Shirts of a lighter material, as had been introduced for the
home shirt in 1975, were worn against Uruguay and Austria. Then, for the
last two games when the kit was worn, the material had changed to match that
of the shiny new home shirt that had been introduced in 1980. For the
other games, the following variations were observed:
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From the games played in 1977, the seams on England's shorts had a narrower
red and blue stripe, though the older, wider stripes were also worn on the
same tour.
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A long-sleeved version was worn by four
players in the game against West Germany, the only difference being
that the stripes at the cuffs were increased to four of each colour.
Phil Neal, Stuart Pearson and Ray Wilkins all started the game in
long sleeves, whilst Emlyn Hughes started in short sleeves, and
switched to a long-sleeved shirt at half-time, though he wore it
with the sleeves rolled up.
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England introduced a new number font in 1978,
and wore it for the first time against Brazil, though six players
(Steve Coppell, Trevor Francis, Brian Greenhoff, Kevin Keegan, Bob
Latchford (below) and Mick Mills) all changed, at half-time, into
shirts bearing the older-style font that had been worn in each of
the previous five games when this shirt was worn.
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For the last two games in which the kit was worn, the logo on the right
breast was updated to the same one that had been worn on the home
shirt since 1980. It was an
embroidered red logo, overlaid
with 'Admiral' in royal-blue title-case lettering
at the bottom, all within a white border. The logo on the shorts
against Romania remained unchanged (the ironed-on yellow logo).
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For
the last game in which the kit was worn, against Brazil in 1981, the
logo on the left thigh of the shorts was the updated red version, overlaid
with 'Admiral' in royal-blue title-case lettering at the bottom, all
within a white border.
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Most Appearances |
9 - Kevin Keegan, Dave Watson,
Ray Wilkins (1 sub)
- Of the three players, Keegan spent the most
time on the pitch.
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Alvin Martin and Peter Withe both made
their international debuts against Brazil in the last game in which the shirt
was worn.
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Three players won their last cap wearing
this shirt. Tony Currie made his 17th appearance in it, and Bob Latchford made
his twelfth. Gerry Francis was the third.
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Scorers |
5 -
Kevin Keegan
3 - Stuart Pearson
1 - Peter Barnes, Mick Channon,
Steve Coppell, Dave Watson, Ray Wilkins
- Wilkins was the only player to score
his first international goal in this shirt.
- Three of
Pearson's five international goals were scored in this shirt (including his last).
- Barnes also scored his last England goal in this
shirt. It was his fourth
overall.
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Captains |
6 - Kevin Keegan
2 -
Emlyn Hughes
1 -
Gerry Francis, Dave Watson
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Francis captained England in the red shirt for the first time (after
seven in the white shirt), on the occasion of his
twelfth and last international appearance, against Finland.
- Watson was the
only player to captain England for the
first time in this shirt.
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,%20Kevin.bmp)  In a reverse to the
1974 home shirt,
England wore red shirts with white shorts and
red socks.
Five of its first six appearances were against
fellow World Cup winners, including for every game of the first unbeaten
tour of South America, in 1977, as the three-year reign of Don Revie came to
an end.
The Under-21 team wore a matching pair of red
shorts (with white drawstring, white and royal-blue stripe down the seam,
ironed-on yellow logo on left thigh, overlaid
with 'Admiral' in navy-blue title-case lettering
at the bottom, all within a navy-blue border), turning it into an all-red kit, against Switzerland on 18 November
1980 at Ipswich. Their accompanying red shirts were of the original design
i.e. without the new material and logo worn five months later against Romania
by the full international side.
Photos
above are displayed with permission from Simon Shakeshaft, curator of
the
National Football Shirt Collection at England Match Shirts, which is part of
the Neville Evans Collection. They are nice illustrations of the main changes
that this shirt underwent during its five-year service. Both shirts were
worn by Dave Watson. The first, above left, is a long-sleeved shirt with the
original yellow and blue Admiral logo and the second, above left, worn
against Romania in 1981, is a short-sleeved shirt with the updated red,
white and blue Admiral logo. As both are number-five shirts, we also have
excellent examples of the two different number fonts used on these shirts.
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Matches in which England wore the
1976 Away Red Uniform |
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13 June 1976 -
Finland 1 England
4 [1-2]
Olympiastadion, Töölö, Helsinki (24,336) |
Paatelainen
Pearson, Keegan
(2),
Channon |
AW |
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Tour of South America |
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8 June 1977 -
Brazil 0 England
0 [0-0]
Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro (77,000) |
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AD |
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England
wore the red away shirt with the white away shorts, but wore plain blue
socks, against Brazil. |
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513 |
12 June 1977 -
Argentina 1 England
1 [1-1]
Estadio Camilo Cichero,
La Boca, Buenos Aires (60,000) |
Bertoni
Pearson |
AD |
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514 |
15 June 1977 -
Uruguay 0 England
0 [0-0]
Estadio Centenario, Parque
Batlle, Montevideo (25,000) |
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AD |
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European Championship Preliminary match |
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531 |
6 June 1979 -
Bulgaria 0 England
3 [0-1]
Stadion Vasil Levski, Sredets, Sofija (31,322) |
Keegan, Watson, Barnes |
AW |
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England
wore the red away shirt with the white away shorts, but wore the 1974
home white
socks, against Bulgaria. |
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Svenska Fotbollförbundet 75th Anniversary match |
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532 |
10 June 1979 -
Sweden 0 England
0 [0-0]
Råsunda Fotbollstadion, Solna kommun, Stockholms län (35,691) |
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AD |
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Friendly match |
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533 |
13 June 1979 -
Austria 4 England
3 [3-1]
Praterstadion, Prater, Wien (60,000) |
Pezzey (2), Welzl (2)
Keegan, Coppell, Wilkins |
AL |
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Other matches in which England
wore the 1976 Away White Shorts |
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23 May 1976 -
Brazil 1 England 0 [0-0]
LA Memorial Coliseum, Exposition Park, Los
Angeles (32,495) |
Roberto |
NL |
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England
wore the 1974 white home shirt with the white away shorts and 1976
alternative yellow
socks, against Brazil. |
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548 |
15 October 1980 -
Romania 2 England 1 [1-0]
Stadionul 23 August, Sector
2, Bucureşti (75,000) |
Răducanu,
Iordănescu
(pen)
Woodcock |
AL |
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England
wore all white; the 1980 white home shirt and socks, with the white away shorts, against
Romania. |
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Friendly match |
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25 March 1981 -
England
1
Spain 2 [1-2]
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London (71,840) |
Hoddle
Satrústegui, Zamora |
HL |
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England
wore all white; the 1980 white home shirt and socks, with the white away
shorts, against Spain. |
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Other match in which England
wore the 1976 Away Red Socks |
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536 |
22 November 1979 -
England 2 Bulgaria
0 [1-0]
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London (71,491) |
Watson, Hoddle |
HW |
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England
wore the 1974 white home shirt with the blue home shorts and red away socks, against
Bulgaria. |
The Under-21 and Youth
teams wore the same design, except that each wore an embroidered
scroll below the emblem on a white rectangular patch, within which was displayed, in navy blue, either INTERMEDIATE (for the Under-21s) or YOUTH (for the
Under-20s and Under-18s).
England's B team wore an identical kit to the full international team,
without the scrolls. When the Under-20s played against Romania in Adelaide
in the World Youth Championship third-place play-off in 1981, they wore red numbers on the right thigh of their shorts in
a different font to that on the back of the shirts.
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England's Record wearing the 1976 Away
Shirt |
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Type |
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D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts % |
W/L |
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Home |
3 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
-1 |
2 |
1 |
0.333 |
0.667 |
33.3 |
-1 |
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Away |
8 |
2 |
4 |
2 |
12 |
8 |
+4 |
3 |
4 |
1.50 |
1.00 |
50.0 |
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Total |
11 |
2 |
6 |
3 |
13 |
10 |
+3 |
5 |
5 |
1.182 |
0.909 |
45.5 |
-1 |
Two number-ten
shirts from
Richard Clarke's 'Three Lions
- England Match Worn Shirts' Facebook Collection. These were worn by Trevor
Francis in 1978 (left) and Graham Rix in 1981 (right) and are
further examples of different logos, number fonts and shirt
materials worn during this period.
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