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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 - the plain status shows this is an unused spare match supplied shirt.

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.

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.

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