I raise this subject as on the trip home today I witnessed a chap in a Bradford City top during my journey, and he was sporting a Bantams strip with RIP 56 emblazoned on the back, so I'm guessing some kind of commemorative kit that was commissioned specially to mark that tragedy.

So I'm curious if any of you folks have any tales of coming across strange kits that didn't fit into the surroundings where you saw them.

Used to be a bloke wandered around our neighbourhood in a Blackburn shirt. We’ve seen him off.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 05, 2021 9:33 pm

Used to be a bloke wandered around our neighbourhood in a Blackburn shirt. We’ve seen him off.

Was about to post something similar.
In the mid 70s at ht v blackburn between the bogs and the bar in the Bee Hole, a Rovers fan wearing a shirt got a bit of a seeing to......who knows why he was doing that.

When I was younger and in the scouts, we were going on a sailing trip across the North Sea to Belgium & Holland.

We were sailing from Colchester and before we left we had a wander around.
We ended up in a sports shop, was something like JJB or Intersports and hung on the rack was a single jade & black Burnley shirt which we all thought was very odd

Saw a Blackburn Rovers shirt in Zanzibar.
The wearer was selling vegetables, struggled with english and knew sod all about football.
‘Typical Rovers fan’, I thought.

wilks_bfc wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 05, 2021 9:53 pm

When I was younger and in the scouts, we were going on a sailing trip across the North Sea to Belgium & Holland.

We were sailing from Colchester and before we left we had a wander around.
We ended up in a sports shop, was something like JJB or Intersports and hung on the rack was a single jade & black Burnley shirt which we all thought was very odd

I ...and my kids loved that shirt ..but many didnt for some reason.

Went to pick up a dog from a remote village in Wales after we'd finished 7th and fancied a pint. Spotted a Rovers shirted bloke with his wife. He kind of tried to hide in the corner. We sat outside having a beer and he came over to us and said 'We've specifically come down here to get away from you lot and then you bloody show up with your European Tour shirt in a random village in Wales'.
Friendly banter ensued but he wished us well.

Berwick on Tweed is the most random place I have seen someone with a Burnley shirt

There were 2 bars in Krakow, Poland, which had Burnley shirts on the walls.

My mate owns the TEA Team brewpub next to the river. Worth a visit.

the day we won the Championship I decided to walk down the Vegas strip in my Burnley top...........other side of the road I see another Burnley shirt and we have an impromptu "Champions" chant to the amusement of everyone else !!

Burnley shirt spotted Rue Clemenceau, Montpellier. Not worn by myself.

About 15 years ago I saw a French car in Montcornet, NE France with a Burnley scarf in the rear window. It wasn't me! More recently there was a Clarets scarf hung in a bar in the village of Maroilles for a number of years.....that was me!

I stumbled across a Burnley scarf hanging in a pub in Namche Bazaar in Nepal a few years back. Given Namche is at well over 3,000m altitude and a full two days walk from any alternative transport, somebody was determined to take it up there.

I was in a traffic jam in Port Harcourt (Nigeria) and there are always loads of vendors dodging around the vehicles selling all sorts of stuff. One of them was wearing an old Endsleigh shirt which was in tatters TBH. I was gobsmacked.

PWBFC wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 06, 2021 7:01 am

I stumbled across a Burnley scarf hanging in a pub in Namche Bazaar in Nepal a few years back. Given Namche is at well over 3,000m altitude and a full two days walk from any alternative transport, somebody was determined to take it up there.

Could well be my brother. He was over there a few years back and converted a few tourists from the States to Clarets. There's a pic on his facebook of a Sherpa with a Burnley scarf and a hat. Spreading the Clarets word. It would make sense as he posted a video the other day of them high up in the mountains.

Vegas Claret wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 06, 2021 3:14 am

the day we won the Championship I decided to walk down the Vegas strip in my Burnley top...........other side of the road I see another Burnley shirt and we have an impromptu "Champions" chant to the amusement of everyone else !!

You must have good eyesight and a loud voice if you can see and here someone on the opposite side of the Vegas strip!!

You'd need to get a taxi just to pop over and say hello

PWBFC wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 06, 2021 7:01 am

I stumbled across a Burnley scarf hanging in a pub in Namche Bazaar in Nepal a few years back. Given Namche is at well over 3,000m altitude and a full two days walk from any alternative transport, somebody was determined to take it up there.

Also saw that scarf, whilst watching City beat us in the FA Cup back in 2018

In the late 1990s I was responsible for building a green field factory in Lithuania and for the subsequent management of it. As such, I visited several customers in the region and one day I went to a mattress manufacturing factory out in the sticks on the Belarus/Lithuanian. To my surprise one of the young girls working on a tape edging machine was wearing a claret and blue Endsleigh Burnley shirt: I was so surprised I had my photo taken with her. She had no idea who or what Burnley FC were, but told me that her husband was an English football who collected shirts when be could. He gotthe Burnley shirt because his father knew of Burnley from the 60s during the communist era.

I've just witnessed what looked like a re-creation of Kes in a park in Barnsley. The Brian Glover role played by a fat bald bloke, aged around 60 playing over-competitively against his grandkids.

"Glover" was wearing a Real Madrid shirt with "Sergio Ramos 4" on the back.

Devils_Advocate wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 06, 2021 10:31 am

You must have good eyesight and a loud voice if you can see and here someone on the opposite side of the Vegas strip!!

You'd need to get a taxi just to pop over and say hello

ha very true in certain places especially at the Southern end - outside the Wynn is very easy though

I was in the Democratic Republic the day after we beat Liverpool 1-0 in the cup, courtesy of Jimmy Traore, I ventured into a bar off the beaten track the following day and the only footie shirt behind the bar was one of ours.

I couldn't believe that I'd probably missed out watching the game with fellow clarets and asked the bar man about the shirt. He just said, it's been there for ages; the owner got it when he was at a place called Colne! Gobsmacked.

Dressinggown wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 06, 2021 12:27 am

There were 2 bars in Krakow, Poland, which had Burnley shirts on the walls.

My mate owns the TEA Team brewpub next to the river. Worth a visit.

Hi Dressinggown, would you be able to check if the Cardiff game will be on at T.E.A time brewpub. In Krakow on Sat and can't find any contacts for the T.E.A time.

Thanks

MBIC

I was at Lancs v Essex a few weeks back at Blackpool CC.

Counted up the number of Burnley and Rovers shirts I saw in the crowd throughout the day..... We won 4-3.

Deep in the backwaters of the mississippi in 1972, I was alone,fishing for catfish around 3am...miles from any kind of civilisation, I stopped fishing briefly to relieve myself against a waterside tree (willow or similiar)..looking down in the moonlight I read on a mangled piece of palletwood ,the legend that is..

Longside Burnley.
Skins rule OK
Ya Baz.

Now that felt a bit weird.

Vino blanco wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 06, 2021 12:17 pm

He gotthe Burnley shirt because his father knew of Burnley from the 60s during the communist era.

I knew Bob Lord was a dictator but I had no idea he was a communist.....

Herts Clarets wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 15, 2024 8:29 am

I knew Bob Lord was a dictator but I had no idea he was a communist.....

staunch Tory was Lord

Spanish fella wearing a Burney shirt at Disney World Orlando last year.

Saw him on consecutive days wearing different shirts.

Long story but will cut it very short
A lad i knew ( died 4 years yesterday ) has helped run a school in Zambia kind of given kids a chance in life once they make something of their life's they are asked to give something back and so on .
Anyway mad Irishman and followed the football team everywhere , now the kids at school loved football so he asked anyone who had any small unwanted Irish gear to send it to him and then kitted out the football team .

Tommy Freeny was some man .

Herts Clarets wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 15, 2024 8:29 am

I knew Bob Lord

So did my father.

I was on a trip on the 'maid of the Mist' at Niagara As we neared the Falls I noticed a (very wet) Burnley shirt on an American boat coming out of the spray. I promptly lifted my red plastic poncho and showed them my BFC shirt and we exchanged waves across the water

I'll be taking one to the Andes mountains in a month or so. If you happen to be knocking about there and see a Burnley shirt feel free to say hello

Once saw a guy with a Burnley shirt on over his wetsuit surfing at Fistral beach Cornwall, he was very good and obviously didn't learn on the Leeds to Liverpool.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 05, 2021 9:33 pm

Used to be a bloke wandered around our neighbourhood in a Blackburn shirt. We’ve seen him off.

Strangely, Read Cricket Club always seems to have a few of them too.

BigRedrose wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 15, 2024 11:53 am

Strangely, Read Cricket Club always seems to have a few of them too.

I believe it's because the chairperson likes to keep a foot in both camps!

Came out of Sainsburys in Halifax one lunchtime a few years ago and a guy was walking in wearing an Ipswich shirt.

2 weeks ago Sunbathing on the banks of Lake Ontario just outside of Toronto,pretty quiet beach and young lad walked past wearing the old Endsleigh sponsored Burnley shirt

A couple of weeks ago, Sandbach town centre. A bloke wearing the new Pink Rovers top.
Then, around the corner about 30 Tangerine clad Blackpool fans. They’d stopped off for a beer on the way to their friendly at Crewe.

I saw a bloke in a Blackburn shirt in Chiang Mai a few years ago. As I passed him I said: Come on Burnley. He looked puzzled. Transpired he didn't know who were were, or anything about BRFC, either.

I work at the RBH in Reading, and yesterday I saw a someone with Burnley shirt with 19 Zaroury on the back