When Shorts Were Short concerns itself solely with what was actually a very narrow window in football history when teams wore, well, short shorts. The podcast takes 1954 as its starting point, when Umbro made their first England kit with shorter shorts, to 1992, when short shorts were all but finished as Umbro's baggy shorts for Tottenham's new kit, ahead of the '91 FA Cup Final, quickly caught on.

If the shorts weren't short, we don't talk about it.

It's the summer of 1981.

For the best part of four seasons, a Liverpool side that both domestically and on the European stage, had battled for supremacy with Nottingham Forest, had a starting eleven that rolled off the tongue regardless of whether you were a Liverpool fan or not. 1 to 11, Clemence, Neal, Alan Kennedy, Thompson the captain, Ray Kennedy, Hansen, Dalglish, Case – from ’80-81 sidelined by Lee – Johnson, McDermott and Souness. But by '81-82, Paisley’s greatest side, probably the finest in Liverpool’s history, had begun to break up.

Steven Scragg, author, journalist and heavyweight podcaster who more often than not anchors the outstanding These Football Times, is my guest this week. One of the most authoritative voices on Liverpool out there, Steven has written on Liverpool’s dramatic ’81-82 season and was the obvious name to walk us through what may well have been Bob Paisley’s finest moment.

Find Steven on Twitter @Scraggy_74

And his football books are available online and all good bookshops.

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