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You're probably right. I've reverted my revert and reworded to avoid the sea of blue. I think I'm a bit prejudiced against that 3rd Test article as I made a start on expanding it ages ago, got very bored, and gave up, leaving it in a bit of a mess! So sorry about that! Cheers, Sarastro1 (talk) 17:53, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

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Apologies – I assumed your edit could only be a bad-faith machete edit, and I responded with a light-hearted edit which I realize was also in bad faith. FYI hundreds of World Cup games have featured kit changes that could only have been for black-and-white TV. But there aren't many detailed sources of this. It worries me slightly that you would remove the whole sentence because the source was inadequate – better to try Template:Better source. Demokra (talk) 10:22, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

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I just saw your request, since archived to Template talk:Infobox football club/Archive 6#Edit request on 1 September 2013, to update {{Infobox football club}} so that "Home colours", "Away colours" and "Third colours" link to Kit (association football), Away colours and Third jersey respectfully. As it happens, I came to the same conclusion independently and made this request yesterday and the template has now been updated accordingly. I'm sorry your original request was dismissed out of hand, but I thought you might be pleased to see you got the desired result in the end! —sroc 💬 05:09, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

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Ps. I put together this a few years ago if you have any use for it (it needs fleshing out with some references). Bring back Daz Sampson (talk) 13:32, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

A taskforce is giving me Martadom? Hmm, dunno about the sound of that, but thank you.

That 1989 final article looks nearly ready to go, I can add a few refs etc when I get time.

It's an amazing and sad story, I really just stumbled across it in the archive and couldn't believe what I was reading. I guess nobody involved has talked about it much since then?
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(er, "ping", obviously. @Bring back Daz Sampson:)

Your Martadom is well deserved! The 89 final you mean? Yeah it was just another story 'lost to the mists of time' I suppose. A bit like Pat Chapman's double hat-trick in the 78 final. There's a couple of lines in Hope Powell's autobiography (page 43). In that Williams/Woodhouse book it claims women's football got elbowed off Channel 4 when Paul Gascoigne signed for Lazio and they started showing Football Italia instead. I have a memory that there was a Dick, Kerr's Ladies F.C. player reunion at the 89 final, but would need to hunt out the source for it... Bring back Daz Sampson (talk) 13:34, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Incredible work! Just read this article with my Wiki hat on, there's so many incredible stories to uncover. No Swan So Fine (talk) 21:29, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

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