It’s now become urban legend that the British football fans love affair with trainers began in Liverpool in the late 70’s.
Dominating Europe the returning Reds brought back exotic clothes and footwear to a city in economic decline. It was a splash of much needed colour peacocked by the Annie Road boys on the smaller terrace behind the goals at Anfield (they were way too cool to go into a Kop full of wools).
King in this new uniform was your trainers or trainies and they had to be Adidas.
This was the first rule in the casuals (I’ll use the modern word) commandments tablet that had been decreed in places like Scarlets Bar and Checkmate, a club hugely important to the story as they did what was unthinkable then, let football fans in with trainers on.