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Additional Details:
Number: 4
Colour: Blue Home
Sleeve: Short Sleeve
Season Start Year: 1997
Season End Year: 1998
Badge1: Embroidered Leicester Badge
Sponsor: Walkers Crisps
Others: Rare Worn Uefa Cup Shirt v Athletico Madrid
Match: Leicester City v Athletico Madrid 30th September 1997
| This is a very odd shirt. Firtsy for these UEFA matches, there were no PL arm patches and the PL lion was not used on the numbers. This is standard practice for this competition, but obviously strange for us.
Secondly, for whatever reason we wore shirts with an embroidered Leicester emblem, which was different both to the replica and the players shirts for this season. |
| The last thing to note is that during this particular season, the club used the following seasons cloth to make up of this seasons shirts, this game being an example of this.
So the following season when they marketed a new shirt, the actual material had been used by the players in many games the season previous. It was difficult to spot this, and I only managed to find this out after I received this shirt and then I trawled through the programmes. |
| In this photo you can see both the embroidered badge, but also the cloth detail which was used for the following seasons shirt design. |