Get You Kit On

Tim Edwards becomes Fashion Correspondent

I have decided to take a nostalgic look at many of our different replica kits over the years, and whether they were lucky or unlucky, value for money or just plain garbage.

The replica football shirt - an essential item for any football fan worldwide, a direct representation of the team you follow, and in most cases, the place from which you come from. And it's fair to say that our beloved club have had their fair share of different-style and coloured shirts over the years, and I thought it would be interesting to take a nostalgic look back at the shirts which have served us, the mere football fans, through many of the Reds' rollercoaster seasons.

I'm not as old-school as many other senior loyal Wrexham fans, but I've followed the lads from 1991, and that's quite reasonable for a 22-year-old! I bought my first shirt for the 1992/3 season, which proved to be the promotion year for us, fuelled by the high-octane performances of former Reds messiahs, Watkin and Bennett. Every season since that glorious year, I have purchased a replica kit without fail, along with many hundreds of other fellow Wrexham fans.
Wrexham have had as many colour changes for their second and third kits as Red Passion's ever-changing 'chameleon' front and back covers! Here is the first instalment of my low-down on each of the kits I have purchased over the years. Enjoy.

SEASON 1992/93

I bought the traditional red home kit for my first ever Wrexham shirt, and boy did I wear it! Made by EN-S (Enkay Sports), the shirt sports an unusual red check-style pattern on the rounded collar and bottom of the sleeves. A small studded button is present which can be pulled to open up a breathable opening for those hazy summer months. White piping lined the shoulders and around the top of the sleeves, with the Enkay 'E' logo adorning the all-over background design. As well as the standard Wrexham club badge and the Wrexham Lager velvet-feel logo, the shirt was pretty comfortable back then, apart from the rough stitching inside the shirt at the rear of the club logo, which seemed to rub my nipples until it made them as red as the shirt was! I was not alone with this problem, as I discussed the matter during that year with many other fans who confessed to wearing a plaster across the aforementioned area during the time they wore their shirts! VERDICT: A decent product, it was the shirt that led us to promotion and apart from the nipple problem, a superstitiously good shirt. 8/10 ¯RP


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