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A Steve Archibald shirt. That says a lot as well.
First, shirts in those days didn't have names on them and so a kid wearing one with a name on it probably was given a snide one.
Secondly, very few people wore replica shirts in those days. Most people at football were wearing Crombies, Harringtons or similar. Certainly not replica shirts. I remember going to an away game in 1983, Brighton it was, and one of my mates turned up in a replica shirt and had the Mickey taken out of him the whole day. He had to cover it up and it never appeared again.
Thirdly, Archibald was the personification of the mercenary footballer in embryo. Left his native country, travelled to England and then Spain in the hunt for money.
Having a snide plastic shirt with Archibald on the back does not make you "Old School" anything other than Old School Plastic.
What Chalfie says about the Y word. Others, better people than you, have been banned for using that word. Faux Spurs "fans" using such language is designed only to perpetuate antisemitism in this country. People who do that are a disgrace.