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Long sleeved red cotton jersey Wales international football shirt. White cuffs and collar, FAW badge on left breast, with red dragon. Worn by Walter Robbins.
In 1930, the Football League banned English clubs from releasing Welsh players on Saturdays. A national team was cobbled together using Welsh club players and three amateurs. Walter Robbins and another Cardiff City legend, Fred Keenor, were chosen. The team were dubbed ‘the Unknowns', but they created quite an upset when they held Scotland to a 1-1 draw in 1930. Walter wore this shirt during that game.
Cuffs and collar from white cotton jersey; semi-circular facing of red jersey machine-stitched to inner CB neck; 3 mother-of-pearl buttons at neck opening; neck opening has facing of white cotton twill. Badge is embroidered in red and white thread onto a cream ground of wool twill with a raised nap, the embroidery also extends through a second layer of cotton muslin fabric, finally, the badge has a cotton muslin lining, edges of all three fabrics are unfinished and the badge is stitched on with large tacking stitches using white cotton thread (S-twist). Everything is machine stitched, apart from buttons and badge, as well as collar, which is stitched down with large tacking stitches; overlocker used to finish inner seam allowances.
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