….a good mate of mine did it for a long time for Everton, for some reason he got lots of the young Irish lads. Richard Dunne would be the most famous of his lodgers.
Still happening now, Justin Clarke boards just a few doors from my son’s house...
This is a common thing done for the young Ice Hockey players over here.
Keep them out of trouble and gets the club another pair of eyes on them.
If the kid goes on to make it big they're usually quite grateful to those who helped them out.
I think the change happened when the tighter fitted shirts incorporated lycra/elastin type materials in them about 15 years or so ago. My old Everton shirts from the early to late 90's all feel like they are made from 100% polyester & would...
Players stopped having their shirts tucked in when football shirts stopped being baggy which was a gradual process, you could say by 2010 most football shirts were form fitted
I'm thinking possibly later, this is the Euro 2004 side
2006
2008
2010 its emerging
2012
2014 - Untucked FC
It has to be some point between 2010 & 2014
Some referees in my local league used to enforce the tuck. You knew you weren't getting away with any shenanigans in those matches.
To answer the OP, I'll put a date of November 23rd 2004 as the date that untucks first exceeded 50%