Rank Xerox

[jim_bergerac]

I enjoyed the item description on this e-bay link below. It refers to the Rank Xerox shirt being worn in the era of Beattie and Le Tissier. I would say they are at least 15 years out. I think the shirt was from the 82/83 season!!

 

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SOUTHAMPTON-AWAY-FOOTBALL-SHIRT-RANK-XEROX-SPONSOR_W0QQitemZ110327685530QQ

[Iowsaintsfan]

maybe we could all ask if there is a buy it now price too!

[exit2]

1980 - 1983 was our first sponsor I think.

 

Then was Air Florida

[Mr X]

lol obviously being sold by a true saints fan.......

Wonder why they're selling it? were playing the best football of our time

[saint_stevo]

BT?15 yrs ago?

[WokingSaint]

I have a team picture on my (home) office wall showing date 1982/83 (Original signatures some players) all in Rank Xerox kit. Also have very very small Rank Xerox shirt (son's, now 16 stone!) and a Saints Rank Xerox tie (knew someone from the company)

E Bay should be done under trade descriptions!

[70's Mike]

think that shirt was in the keegan era not BT OR MLT

[Give it to Ron]

Jim that used to run the memorabilia shop in St Marys had a stall selling old shirts at the Forest game opposite the Alfred and were very cheap.

[chivvy1664]

my five year old son wears mine. its 25+ years old and still looks good!!!

[Fowllyd]

Either the picture of the shirt on e-Bay is rubbish, or the dark blue stripes have turned to a sort of purple/maroon colour. Or maybe my laptop screen's not what it was!

[Under Weststand]

think that shirt was in the keegan era not BT OR MLT

You are correct Mike it was in the Keegan era not MLT & Beatie. Hope the picture of it on e-bay isn't a true representation as it looks sky blue & brown on my lap top ??

[explorer saint]

Thought Air Florida was our first sposnsor then Rank Xerok

[Fan The Flames]

Thought Air Florida was our first sposnsor then Rank Xerok

 

Definately Rank Xerok, my old man worked for RX at the time and I got given the home and away kits. Air Florida was the second sponsor who went bust mid season to be replaced with Draper (is that correct)

[Fowllyd]

Definately Rank Xerok, my old man worked for RX at the time and I got given the home and away kits. Air Florida was the second sponsor who went bust mid season to be replaced with Draper (is that correct)

 

It was definitely Rank Xerox first. It was originally possible to get that kit with no sponsor's name, as the FA started allowing sponsorship a while after we'd started using it. The kit itself was adopted at the start of the 1980/81 season, after we'd signed Keegan; it replaced the candy-stripe kit dating from 1976/77.

 

If you look at the forum masthead you'll see Channon in the candy-stripe kit, with Keegan in its successor - with no sponsor in evidence.

[Chorlton]

It was definitely Rank Xerox first. It was originally possible to get that kit with no sponsor's name, as the FA started allowing sponsorship a while after we'd started using it. The kit itself was adopted at the start of the 1980/81 season, after we'd signed Keegan; it replaced the candy-stripe kit dating from 1976/77.

 

If you look at the forum masthead you'll see Channon in the candy-stripe kit, with Keegan in its successor - with no sponsor in evidence.

 

For the first few seasons of sponsorship, if your match was due to be on MotD or The Big Match, you were not allowed to wear your sponsored shirt and had to switch it for a blank one. As we were on TV loads in those days (pre live football and when TVS showed a weekly program), half of the time we had to wear an unsponsored shirt.

[Fowllyd]

For the first few seasons of sponsorship, if your match was due to be on MotD or The Big Match, you were not allowed to wear your sponsored shirt and had to switch it for a blank one. As we were on TV loads in those days (pre live football and when TVS showed a weekly program), half of the time we had to wear an unsponsored shirt.

 

That's true - I'd totally forgotten that. But now you mention it, I remember Coventry City having shirts which incorporated the Talbot logo into their pattern, which couldn't be removed for TV. All down to Jimmy Hill, who was their chairman back then!

 

Notes for younger forum users: Talbot was a make of car, the British arm of Chrysler. Their cars were uniformly dreadful. Jimmy Hill is the only man in the world with a chin to rival that of Brucie Forsyth. He was also reputed to know something about football, but I never quite saw that somehow.

[Massimo Osti]

Thought Air Florida was our first sposnsor then Rank Xerok

You thought wrong there then.

 

The Shirt was available with or without Rank Zerox on the front as when we were on the TV shirt sponsers were not allowed then.