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When Did Footballers Stop Tucking There Shirts In?

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%
 

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%
I'm thinking possibly later, this is the Euro 2004 side1751540666068.webp

2006
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2008
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2010 its emerging
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2012
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2014 - Untucked FC
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It has to be some point between 2010 & 2014
 

When Did Footballers Stop Tucking There Shirts In?

Fashions and styles in football come and go, and i only pretty remember back to the early 90s, and obviously seen a fair bit from the 80s, were the majority of players loved a tucked in shirt
Some Excellent Shirt Tucking in from the Brazil 1998 Side
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You obviously had your mavericks like Big Dunc, George Best, Platini & Steve Claridge who would go against the grain and untuck
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You had the great Shaka Hislop who went against the grain and went one better and went humungous in the 90s, but as he got older, got more sensible
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So going back to my point, when was the exact time the ratio of shirts out beat shirts tucked in? Was there a meeting? It used to help us decide who were the cool players and who were the squares!

Some honorable mentions for your favorite shirts out/shirts in players
Even better would be the rarely spotted half in/half out players

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Dennis Law early 60s
 


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