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After unearthing Dean Kiley’s old gloves,I returned to the loft in search of more @YorkCityFC relics, and found some absolute corkers. With the move away from Bootham Crescent imminent,it feels right to share the nostalgia.Thread below @YfrontFanzine @Yorktone @Minsterman74 #YCFC
The programme from my first City game in 1991. I was, & still am, both fascinated & curious about the cover, and that using a ‘staged shot’ was actually a thing. I’ve no idea who the ‘players’ are, but still assume someone is holding the other side of the ball in place?
The Club Shop did some ace, unique merchandise. Are pennants still around nowadays? I used the bag for my gear when attending Junior Red training sessions in the gym with Colin Sanderson. It’s getting ressurected now!
Rather than generic ‘teamwear’ supplied by a manufacturer, shirt designs were genuinely unique to that specific club. Love the keeper shirts, the purple one from @chrismarps era, the multicoloured worn by @deankiely40 in the 1993 Play Off Semi Vs Bury
This is class. The best thing is I only grew to 5ft 6” and, at 140lbs, I can still fit in it!
When inviting a Junior Red to be a Matchday Mascot, the club would send out these typewriter postcards, no option to decline the offer if you couldn’t make it, guess they just assumed you’d show. Ace.
I was ridiculously lucky to win a @BBCYorkSport competition to be the mascot for our Play Off Final trip to the old Wembley back in May 1993. Left my signed programme in the Changing Rooms which the Football League were kind enough to post a few weeks later
A few more Wembley bits, a Travel Club ticket (£12!) along with the souvenir VHS and @BBCYorkSport’s ‘We’re Up’ cassette. Also each programme from the season which saw us get there. Remember when scrapbooks were a thing?
The club would flog their own brand Programme Binders which were pretty smart.Loved the casual tees too, especially the ‘Minster Men’ one with ace illustrations of the likes of @deankiely40 @mcmillan1968 @tonycanham10 . Tag in any featured player’s Twitter accounts I don’t follow
I’ve never been a big collector of programmes, particularly games I’ve not actually attended, so aren’t quite sure how I ended up with these....
A cushion hand-sewn by my own mum. Aren’t mums ace? We used to hang the scarf out of the car window on the way to Away games (is that still a thing?) until the day we drove past a field of manure and it stank for weeks.....
Finally, in the early 90s the club struck a deal with a publisher for ‘personalised’ books, where you provide names, friends, fave players etc. Standard stuff now but was proper revolutionary back then -years ahead. We never did win the European Cup Winners Cup....
Most of this stuff is 30+ years old now. It’s funny, they don’t so much remind me of a place, time or person, but more how it made me feel back then. Just got to hope that, one day, we’ll get that YCFC back and the connection between Club and supporters is again what it once was.
