In 1992 newly promoted Sheffield Wednesday finished 3rd in the last First Division before the dawn of The Premier League. Towards the end of the season and on top form we’d been a couple of wins away from the title so football fever was in full swing at TDR™ when Arkwright approached us to do a non-aligned fan-based T-shirt collection following up on the PWEI and Orb replica football shirts we’d done with them.

These were the baggy days of ubiquitous St Etienne emerald green replica shirts with French flag trim and TDR™’s Hanna Barbarism toon power — all vectors, flat colour and Freehand. 

DR Sokka was a six-a-side series of UK-Kawaii-designs based on early-90s terrace chatter cliches and obsessions.

The numbers on each of the shirts were designed to be printed on the back of the shirt like squad number but Arkwright didn’t want to fork out for two sided printing and somehow the numbers ended up on the front.

In the good old bad old days of ‘real’ men hoofing a waterlogged medicine ball around muddy fields chopping chunks out of opponents shins, the ‘magic sponge’ and cold water bucket accessory wielded by ‘the trainer’ to cure all injuries was an essential piece of kit.

*Approximate Size

Length: 80cm, Width: 60cm.