If i remember correctly this shirt was the first that had the V neck collars rather than the traditional collars, the sponsor was Kestrel lager was it not

Is this the crest from the time of the shirt?

Aye. With 'Youngers' across the shoulders

looks like it yes

Actually, the black club badge / city crest was only done on 'special' shirts like the cup final ones (Such as '68, '77 & '78 etc.) whilst the normal week to week league shirt was unbadged for most of the 70s.

I note that the shirts are 'authentic' yet 'polyester' ... I own a shirt from that the 80s and certainly if you had a look at Graham Eccles old shirt hung in the club, the material of the shirts of that era were most certainly a heavy playing-weight cotton type material.

Bingo - I have a '71 final shirt and my mate has an extremely coveted '68 final shirt (which will be mine one day - ha ha ha). Both are manufactured from very heavyweight cotton. To make these replica shirts truly authentic they would need to be of a similar standard. But then again they probably wouldn't retail for £28 if they were.

The watersplash final replica shirt was some ridiculous price like 70 quid iirc. And that was in 2003.

Whilst I have nothing against polyester, when it actually comes to wearing them you do ....

The big old playing weight cotton shirts were designed to be worn next to the skin with no undershirt or similar on and thus, by the nature of the material, didn't rub certain sensative parts of the anatomy.

A lot of 'modern' man-made fibre shirts really need one of those base layer type vests underneath them to make them 'wearable' ....

On the other hand, you've got to say that they were really well made and also perhaps should be seen as an investment.

Consider the number of 'new' Leeds shirts that have been generated since then ... There's certainly been at least one home shirt per season and coupled with now the club going down the route of changing both kits each year.

The '68 classic Leeds shirt, the white away shirt that was available from certain sources and even these shirts won't age and won't need replacing each and every season.

Everyone still knows what team you support and furthermore, you've probably paid about a quarter to secure a classic shirt than you would have done changing the kits and buying a 'new' Leeds shirt every time the club changes it as a whim each season.

I have a couple of the '68 replica shirts (one still in it's presentation box) but the one my mate has was worn by Albert Eyre in the final - I wonder how much it would fetch on that there auction site?

I know the old man ha Syd Hynes' from the 72 cup final. Shame it isn't from the '71 final instead.

Albert is the nicest bloke anyone could meet I hope your mate didnt pressurise him get it

Gary Spencer at full tilt ? ..... oops my mistake, it's a still.

I'll have a stab at that line-up.

Top row, left to right - Wally Fullerton-Smith, Neil Hunt, Kevin Rayne, Gavin Jones???, Keith Rayne, Paul Gill, John Holmes, Eric Grothe.

Middle row, left to right - Andrew Smith, Neil Hague, Ian Wilkinson, David Creasser, Steve Bleakley???, Kevin Dick, Brendan Hill, Roy Powell, Some Gormless Looking Bloke.

Front row, left to right - Trevor Paterson, Ricky Lulham, Mark Conway, Lech Walesa, David Ward, Weekly Winner of Loiners Guild £1000 Prize Money (almost without fail), Trevor Clark, Les Dyl, Tony Currie.

Sat on their @rses at front - Kevin Squire???, Terry Webb

You've got your Rayne's mixed up, otherwise just remove the multiple question marks on the players.

The random 'gormless looking bloke' is Drew Broatch Leeds' A team coach at the time who was also a fine centre in his day.