Afternoon all. Bit of a longshot, but I am after either the 1988 home or away shirt in a small or medium. It's an Xmas gift for my daughter. Does anyone have one they would be willing to part with (for the right price). I know there is a grey away shirt on eBay at the moment but am suspecting that will go sky high as eBay prices are often inflated. Cheers.
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I wore it to football at school with immense pride (I played with the shorts and socks too).
I remember feeling like I was John Humphrey or Robert Lee with that on, and telling my Arsenal supporting sports teacher that I was going to run rings around him.
If anyone wants to buy me a Xmas present I need an XL........
Bloody hell.
I hope the Museum has a good lock on its door!
You couldn't even buy those shirts at the time and I remember hatching a plan with some fellow Addicks at school to try and nick them off the clothes line after the next game in which we wore them.
We ditched the plan after realizing that there was a pretty good chance that these were likely the only set of yellow Charlton away shirts in existence so even if we successfully nicked them we'd basically be advertising ourselves as the tea-leaves if we ever wore them in public which was, of course, the entire point of stealing them in the first place!
Being slightly more serious, and not knowing much about collecting shirts, are replicas/forgeries much of a problem?
I have bought quite a few from eBay and only one very obvious fake amongst them but from our PL days when I guess we were more widely known overseas and only cost me a tenner.
I suspect an awful lot of the "player worn" shirts on ebay are not genuinely player worn but the replica shirt would have been bought in the club shop.
After a recent acquisition, this 1988 home shirt is now the only home shirt I don't have since 1986 (ignoring the Hummel one-off 25yr special a few yrs back used for one game I think) and I am resigned to never getting one since I fell asleep and missed the bidding on a kids one on ebay a year or so back which was the only remotely affordable version of it I have seen.