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While Newport football fans are preparing for the FA Cup match with the Premier League champions this weekend, a fan has found a way back after the last meeting between the two teams.
Andrew Davies, 30, is the proud owner of a Newport County jersey that was worn by Keith Oakes against Manchester City in 1982.
The jersey was part of a kit specially commissioned for the game, intended to witness the legendary manager Ken Ashurst.
Only 16 kits were produced, and Mr Davies looked for others who might have some of the history of hidden football at home.
"I appealed to Argus in 2013 to find other surviving shirts from this rare lot but no one showed up," he said.
"Maybe a more prestigious game could shake people's memory."
Mr. Davies, who runs his own engineering and surveying company, discovered the kit from his childhood.
His father, Brian Davies, was on loan for his football team at the Cross Hands Pub. The kits were then left inside a car that caught fire.
"My father managed to save this one and he thinks others might have survived the fire," Davies said.
"That would probably make this shirt the rarest in Newport County that I know."
That's saying something, since Mr. Davies has given himself the task of collecting a collection of football kits from around the world.
Surprised by his discovery of the Newport County shirt in 1982, he has now ambaded a treasure chest of nearly 1,000 shirts.
"The pride of my collection is my shirts from Wales and the county," he said.
"I'd like to one day see the lot in a museum with shirts from other collectors. It would be a nice exhibition.
For Saturday's game, Davies said most of his preparation will be to choose the jersey to wear to give Newport County's AFC a chance against Manchester City.
"I always spend hours choosing a shirt for county games, it baffles my wife," he said.
"It will be a tie between Dave Bruton's jersey and Carl Zeiss Jena in the 1981 European Cup Winners' Cup quarter-final, my 2012/13 worn-out Robbie Willmott jersey or the last Ironsides jersey ever signed. "era."
He admitted that although he had a soft spot for kits from the '90s, the "Ironsides" t-shirt "certainly managed the bet against Middlesbrough".
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