| The Liverpool Shirts Museum 1978 European Cup Final Player Shirt |
| The V-neck collar shirts were used between 1977-1982, whereas HITACHI sponsor was added in seasons 1979-1980 and 1980-1981 only. For the glorious Euroepan Cup Finals Liverpool played in 1977 and 1978, tailor-made one-off player shirts were manufactured with specific texture apart from the embroidery present. |
| Liverpool 1978 European Cup Final Player Shirt - This is the actual match worn shirt of David Fairclough. |
| The Euroepan Cup Final 1978 was played at Wembley against FC Brugge. Liverpool's shirts have the special embroidery beneath the Liverbird. However, that's not the only difference. Featured Kenny Dalglish and David Fairclough celebrating after the end of match. |
| Upon a direct comparison, a typical V-neck player shirt doesn't have spores-like texture on the shirt surface. |
| From the front side of the shirt, we can see the presence of spores-like air-tex texture. This is very different from the prevailing V-neck collar player shirts from the same era. |
| As always, UMBRO era player shirts should have the collar tag size printed in words instead of numerics. Here we see the tag reads OS MENS. |
| Both the UMBRO motif and Liverbird crest are beautifully embroidered into the shirt. Beneath the Liverbird, there is additional embroidery of European Cup Final Wembley 1978. |
| This number 9 match worn shirt originates from it's owner, David Fairclough. |
| Featured David Fairclough holding his own number 9 match worn 1978 European Cup Final shirt. |
| This David Fairclough number 9 match worn 1978 European Cup Final shirt was formerly displayed at the Liverpool FC Museum. Beneath the collar tag it bears a small label "EN285/10", which was the Museum item code assigned by the Museum curator Stephen Done. |
| Featured Liverpool FC Museum cabinet once displaying the David Fairclough's number 9 match worn 1978 European Cup Final shirt. The shirt was removed from the Museum and handed back to David Fairclough in 2013 before the Museum underwent renovation work and reopened in October 2013. |