Perhaps someone could help answer these questions.
1. The white/away Ribeiro shirt from 92/93/94. It doesn't have the BTV scroll under the badge and has the trim around the neck like the following seasons Viglen shirt. While not ultra rare I'm not 100% sure if it is from 92/93 or 93/94.
2. Purple/away Le Coq Sportif/Quaser keeper shirt from 97/98. Has Le Coq on the label and Quaser on the front. I have no idea how this came to be.
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@Talal has the same shirt, but with Viglen on the front.
also where’s those prototype pics @Talal
As the club had gone so long without a sponsor, for a 2nd tier club, there was a feeling of novelty around at the time that we had a sponsor again and some fans took BTTV strips back into the club shop , after they were no longer available for sale having been replaced, and had the Viglen sponsor added. The club shop at that time allowed old strips to be taken back and transfers added, post purchase and not just at the time of purchase - a policy which changed in later years. This has meant that there are BTTV strips with Viglen on them although it isnt historically correct as Charlton never wore Viglen on their shirts in 92-93, and 92-93 was the only season the BTTV shirt was worn. My memory tells me Charlton were knocked out of the anglo-Italian cup in 92-93 whilst still playing at Upton Park (by Portsmouth ?) and never played an Anglo Italian fixture in the BTTV strip as it hadnt yet been introduced. Did the reserves play some fixtures in 93-94 in BTTV strips with Viglen on ?
And why did the keepers kit from Wembley never see another game?
This is the only photo I could find, the programme date is December 1993.
Think the first match of the Viglen deal was on TV which was a total rarity then.
The following season we got a new ribero shirt quite similar to the Back to The Valley Shirt but this one had loads of white specks on it. The shirts were numbered as squad numbers (,Balmer 1, Bolder 2) At the start of the season there was no sponsor.
Viglen came on board as sponsors (thanks to the great work of the late @cholland) in the November.
For some reason in 3 of the 4 Anglo Itallian games we wore the Back to The Valley Shirt (in the 2 home games the Viglen sponsor was added). I Always thought this was because when playing the Italians (was not needed in the qualifiers against Millwall and Palace) squad numbers wernt allowed and as that season kit had squad numbers may be the club did not have 1-11 (although I'm sure they had for reserve games). And to confuse it even more we wore the away 93/94 shirt away to Ancona and with the Vivien sponsor in blue numbered 1-11
The Leeds cup tie in January 1993 really illustrated the point - a fantastic draw at Elland Road and to have a big big Prem team (at that time) at The Valley for the replay so soon after returning to the Valley was brilliant.