• When Shorts Were Short S3 E19 GARRY THOMPSON - Coventry, WBA, Sheff Wed, Villa, Watford, Palace, QPR

  • Mar 22 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
  • Podcast

When Shorts Were Short S3 E19 GARRY THOMPSON - Coventry, WBA, Sheff Wed, Villa, Watford, Palace, QPR

  • Summary

  • 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.


    A handful for defenders AND managers, Garry Thompson, the ex-Coventry, WBA, Sheffield Wednesday, Aston Villa, Watford, Crystal Palace and QPR striker looks back at his career and off-the-pitch, some huge personal losses that rocked him. A boyhood Villa fan, Garry broke through at Highfield Road in the late 70s at a time when racial abuse was rife - as it would continue to be for decades. A bad injury early in his career, Garry tells us, robbed him of perhaps being the player that he should've been, but nevertheless, during his peak years in the mid-80s at WBA, he did come close to England selection and in 1988, was part of Graham Taylor's Villa side that won promotion back into the top flight at the first time of asking.


    Follow Garry on Twitter @Thompson1Garry

    And find Garry's book 'Don't Believe A Word' is available here and in all good bookshops.


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