The rise of retro football tops

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We’re speaking to Dan from Cardiff Classic Shirts about collecting shirts, his favourite footballing memories and he says that retro football shirts are making a huge comeback due to the nostalgia.

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00:00During COVID, like a lot of other people, I didn't have any work and because I was self-employed

00:07I fell through the cracks of the support system and so pretty much everything I had went on

00:13eBay and just a bunch of my Carder City shirts that I'd been wearing for sort of 15 years

00:19or so, I realised that they were going for more than I'd paid for them 15 years ago when

00:26I'd bought them brand new. So instead of buying food, I decided to reinvest that money

00:33in more football shirts and yeah, it escalated. The hard work is buying the shirts because

00:41the shirts sell themselves and a lot of the sales are online so it's more about getting

00:45people to come in here and dig out those shirts that you've got in your attic, those shirts

00:50that you've got under your bed, the stuff that people aren't wearing anymore or don't

00:54fit in anymore.

00:55Growth of football tops has been huge over the last few years. Dan says it's a hug back

00:59to the nostalgia of the good old days and these adults who now have a little bit of

01:03disposable income are reliving the football memories they had once upon a time.

01:08The 90s was the greatest era for Premier League football. Perhaps I'm saying that because

01:13that was when I grew up and it's the people now who have got that disposable income in

01:20that age group where you just want to be transported back to a time when you weren't

01:26worried about bill increases and everything else that we've got going on at the moment.

01:33Being a Wales fan has not been easy over the years so we're asking Dan for his favourite

01:37memories in a red top. Is it Euro 2016 or something a little bit more recent?

01:43I think obviously Wales, I remember Wales getting to the, beating Ukraine to get to

01:49the World Cup finals and that was just like, I was 34 then, 35 and as a kid you just never

01:56thought that was going to happen. It didn't look on the cards, even when we had the play-off

02:01against Russia in 2004-ish. I think that was for the Euros even, not for the World Cup.

02:08Yeah, that was one where you just, yeah, superb.

02:13Cardiff Classic Shirts is a business but Dan is still a collector of some of his favourite

02:17tops and he's showed me a few here today that are certainly not for sale.

02:21Well the most exciting thing about doing this job is that five days a week I'm sitting here

02:26and literally anything could walk through that door. It could be a £10 Puma Cardiff

02:33City coat from 15 years ago with a tear in the back or it could be one of Gareth Bale's

02:39Champions League match worn shirts, you just don't know and that's what keeps you going

02:44I guess. I've brought in my favourite shirt from my personal collection today, the last

02:50shirt Peter Wittman ever wore for Cardiff. That doesn't normally live here but I brought

02:56that down just for the cameras.

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