Post by Jon on Aug 11, 2021 23:52:01 GMT
Some discussion on the Chippenham thread.
TUFC changed from 1-11 to squad numbers for the 1999/2000 season.
Excellent site with all the old squad numbers (other than the NLS season) here which is pretty accurate:
www.footballsquads.co.uk/archive.htm
No numbers on shirts up until 1939, but grids in the Official Centenary are how they would have been.
Up until the end of the Webber era, you could easily recognise the 1-11 positions, although Stewart has given us much insight into the varying roles of wing-halves and inside-forwards in particular in the 50s and early 60s.
Frank O'Farrell started experimenting more with formations and sometimes lost the link between shirt number and position, although numbers were usually some kind of guide up until 1999.
I have been updating appearance grids since 1999 recently and forcing numbers into imaginary 1-11s, trying to give some idea of positions played. Rothmans (or whatever it is now) tries to do this but does it extremely badly!
TUFC changed from 1-11 to squad numbers for the 1999/2000 season.
Excellent site with all the old squad numbers (other than the NLS season) here which is pretty accurate:
www.footballsquads.co.uk/archive.htm
No numbers on shirts up until 1939, but grids in the Official Centenary are how they would have been.
Up until the end of the Webber era, you could easily recognise the 1-11 positions, although Stewart has given us much insight into the varying roles of wing-halves and inside-forwards in particular in the 50s and early 60s.
Frank O'Farrell started experimenting more with formations and sometimes lost the link between shirt number and position, although numbers were usually some kind of guide up until 1999.
I have been updating appearance grids since 1999 recently and forcing numbers into imaginary 1-11s, trying to give some idea of positions played. Rothmans (or whatever it is now) tries to do this but does it extremely badly!
