LUFCTALK

What's your favourite Leeds kit?

Mine is the 1973-74 yellow away kit. It had everything. It had the superb "Smiley face" badge. The great collar. The Admiral logo. Leeds famously wore it when they beat Spurs 3-0, I remember Allan Clarke jumping on Bremner after he buried the third, and there it was, gleaming gloriously on our telly.

We first got a colour television in the Summer of 73. My god that was exciting. Prior to then, tv was black and white, and mostly fuzzy black and white, too. This was a brilliant television. Previously, the only time we caught a glimpse of colour television was when we visited a middle class friend's house. And the mother would ask if we wanted some fizzy pop, and I'd just be fixated on Scooby Doo in full colour, so I never answered.

Thing is, no football teams played in yellow back then. Norwich did, but they were never on Match of the Day, and as we were in the North-east, they were rarely on Shoot, Tyne-Tees version of The Big Match. Oh, and Brazil, but we never saw them in Colour until the 1974 World Cup Finals.

In the 80s and early 90s, of course, all teams played in a yellow away kit at some point. It was usually a dull, dank yellow, though, with blue, red, white or black pin-stripes down it. They were all horrible.

Leeds United's yellow away kit from 1973-74 was gleaming bright golden yellow, like the sun. The blue sock tags hung majestically from whatever was holding them on. I loved that 73-75 home kit too, the one they wore in that European Cup Final, playing Bayern off the park, in days when all English fans wanted the English team to win.

But that yellow kit, coming in as colour tv was still in its expensive infancy, just scrapes it for its sheer brilliance.