When Shorts Were Short - Ep 1

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It’s finally here.

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 just don't talk about it.

The guest on this first episode is Paul Walsh. The gifted south London-born forward made his debut aged just 16 for Charlton in 1979, and went on to play for Luton, where he won all five of his England caps, Liverpool and Spurs, before having two stints at Portsmouth via a hugely successful spell at Man City.