The History of The Ali Club Shirt |
Maiden Tour - Captain
Ali made to put Tour shirt on at Breakfast and a tradition is started. |
2nd Tour - Captain
Bazza made to wear Red Shirt with black writing and hat in reversed
colours!
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3rd Tour - Just when you
thought the shirt colours couldn't get any worse, Captain Victor goes
canary. |
First Tour Abroad
- Remember Captain Vincent, dummy extraordinaire in the Welsh
countryside? |
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First Overseas Tour -
Capitain Davide's shirt colour was appropriate for the collective
hangovers somewhere in France. |
6th Tour - Captain
Cluett took us back to where it all began, contrasting navy collars and
cuffs introduced against red body. |
7th Tour - Captain
Pete wears first Tour Shirt with logo designed in-house by Gazza, which
proved to be the way forward. |
8th & 9th Tours - Name
and Year of Tour dropped but Corporate Identity adopted for Captain Mick
in 2003 and Captain Kevin in 2004. |
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10th & 11th Tours -
Commerative Shirt with design recognising our establishment, worn first by
Captain Saint in 2005 and then Captain Pete in 2006. |
12th & 13th Tours -
Captain Bazza takes us on our first mystery tour to Belgium in 2007
followed by Captain Careless Kev to Thorpeness in 2008. |
14th & 15th Tours - It's
3rd
time back to our routes, this time with Captain Nick in 2009, all in
baby blue then onto Woburn
with Captain KO III in 2010. |
16th & 17th Tours - So back to
Woburn in 2011 for a 2nd visit with Captain Gazza in virginal white then
off to Glorious Goodwood with Captain Saint in 2012 |
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18th & 19th Tours - sees a
record 4th visit to the New Forest in 2013 with Captain Swinging Andy
in Blue or is it Purple and then on to Donnington Valley in 2014 with Captain Metal
Mickey |
20th Anniversary & 21st Coming
of Age Tours -
Red shirts for our trip to Belek, Turkey in 2015 with Captain OJ and
then in 2016 to East Sussex National with Captain Swinging Board |
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22nd Tour - to Dale Hill
with Captain James and then 23rd Tour to New Forest V with
Captain Kev where it has been decided to carry over the red
shirts for a third year |
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24th Tour and Captain Mick takes us back to
Belek, Turkey in 2019 - a new blue hooped shirt with logo on the
sleeve for the first time |
Silver Jubilee Tour
Captain John eventually takes us to Stoke by Nayland in 2021 - in
silver with logo on sleeve. Then Captain Mick takes us back to Dale
Hill in 2022 for our 26th Tour and Captain Saint back to Donnington
Valley for our 27th Tour |
28th Tour and Captain Gazza takes us a to a new venue,
Whittlebury Park in 2024 sporting a new white and grey block shirt |
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