Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Australia v England Centenary Rugby Test

   In this Rugby Union Test Match the teams were still wearing the bulky jerseys [jerseys and caps are my other colectables!!] and the Wallabies wore a commemorative sky blue [which created great media around all the QLDers in the team who'd never be seen dead in a sky blue jersey. Worse still the kit sponsor at the time was Reebok who specialised in ill fitting sports clothes: big collars; sleeves too long; bigger sizes just meant longer.
   Aside from that embarrassment it was some great rugby they played on June 26th 1999 in the all important lead up to the Wallabies winning the World Cup later that year in the UK!!
   This t-shirt was my most loved at the time, good quality, it didn't lose shape and I wore it everywhere as my own playing career was winding dow due to bad knee and calf muscle injuries. It had a second life in 2008 when I lost lost of weight and cracked open that vacuum sealed bag filled with old favourites. I wore this to the UK that year and had lost of animated conversations with British rugby fans as we weren't doing as well by then having lost the 2003 and 2007 Webb Ellis Cups.

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