It's also common in the Canadian youth ice-hockey leagues for players to board with host families. These kids are as young as 14 and traveling all over Canada and the northern US as they chase their pro hockey dream.
I was born in New Britain, Connecticut.* For many years, the baseball team there, which was the AA affiliate of the Boston Red Sox,** hosted players with local families. I once worked with a woman who had boarded Roger Clemens and David Ortiz...
….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