When did football fans first start wearing replica kits? | The Knowledge

Plus: more costly (and beneficial) red cards, plus attacks with triple half-century of international goals Mail us with your all of your questions and answers “When did fans wearing replica kits become a thing? ” asks Alex Ecob. “Older footage shows people in regular clothes and a few scarves/flags in the team colours.

What kickstarted the trend? Did one club get there first? ” As the question suggests, this is a not a straightforward answer. Buckle up folks, as we veer wildly from copyright acts to academia, via multiple reports of unofficial kits, DIY jobs, cup-final special editions, youth strips, sew-on jobs and the like. But if we are to draw a line in the sand, and declare…