Sutton's kits

[oohaah]

Dec 20, 2021 22:40:14 GMT pinewalker said:

There is an error in that historical kits website, though how much it affects the estimated kits I am not sure. In the credits one source is listed as "our Warwickshire" and sure enough clicking that produces a 1903 picture of Sutton Under Brailes team, known as Sutton United.

Likewise another source shows as 'Craven Herald and Pioneer' and refers to another Sutton United playing in Sutton-in-Craven (Yorkshire). Once again though it doesn't seem that any content from that was used in the main article.

[timall]

Feb 7, 2022 21:13:33 GMT localboy86 said:

A couple of you may have seen this tweet earlier this evening..from the 1990/91 season - a shirt manufacturer that’s a new one on me..

New Olympic were our kit supplier for the Coventry City FA Cup game

[davef]

Going back to the 60s and 70s, does anyone remember the old Arcade ? What was the name of the sports shop there, just over half way up on the left as you walked from the High St to Manor Road ? You could buy SUFC scarves and bobble hats there ?
I want to say Filby's but that doesn't seem quite right.

[Del]

Feb 8, 2022 11:52:30 GMT davef said:

Going back to the 60s and 70s, does anyone remember the old Arcade ? What was the name of the sports shop there, just over half way up on the left as you walked from the High St to Manor Road ? You could buy SUFC scarves and bobble hats there ?
I want to say Filby's but that doesn't seem quite right.

Got my first set of proper football boots there. It may well have been called Filbys.

[davef]

So did I, black with orange toe caps. Zero flexibility.

[amberchoc]

I wonder if that’s where my old Sutton scarf came from. It was bought for me in time for the 1969 Amateur Cup final. I was knee-high to a grasshopper then. In fact, I wasn’t even a fully-fledged Sutton fan at the time. It was only two or three years later, after I’d started at Sutton Manor, did I then start going to home games. I was even entrusted to walk down to GGL on my own. It was a different world back then.

[oohaah]

Feb 8, 2022 15:25:35 GMT amberchoc said:

I wonder if that’s where my old Sutton scarf came from. It was bought for me in time for the 1969 Amateur Cup final. I was knee-high to a grasshopper then. In fact, I wasn’t even a fully-fledged Sutton fan at the time. It was only two or three years later, after I’d started at Sutton Manor, did I then start going to home games. I was even entrusted to walk down to GGL on my own. It was a different world back then.

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That looks in very good nick!

[amberchoc]

Yep. Survived several house moves and probably hasn’t been worn for about 40 years!

[davethegrave]

I met Barry Williams once when I wanted to borrow some kit for a works football tournament.

He told me about an away kit they had purchased but never got to use for various reasons. Sky blue and white striped shirts and black shorts. Unfortunately this was around the time of the Falklands war.

[pinewalker]

Feb 8, 2022 13:59:34 GMT davef said:

So did I, black with orange toe caps. Zero flexibility.

I think the Arcade shop was called Sutton Sports in 1959, but by 1965 it was Eric Filby & Co. I don't remember buying anything from Filbys who had changed from selling most items of sports equipment to selling only sports footwear and hold-alls. From Sutton Sports I got a catapult, cricket bat and cricket boots, and my first pair of football 'slippers' with no toecaps. A disaster - I took the nail off a big toe shooting, and had an opponent's heel stud break a toe.  Thereafter I played football in rugby boots with toecaps or - when I had more cash - had toecaps put in my slippers by a cobbler.