I don’t think I can blame the book for the USA ’94 hat I also bought though!Īll royalties from the book go to Exeter City Women’s football team. Epic Clarity This reporting database also supports Epic’s CIS with the data abstracted and updated each day, according to the healthcare facility’s daily workflows. My Maradona themed Napoli jersey should be arriving any day now. Epic Cogito was changed to Caboodle because it captures the whole kit and caboodle. It’s also literally impossible to not at some point put the book down to google how much some of the shirts pictured might cost you.
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It touches on a wide range of topics from using football shirts as a means of doing good, to the perils of gambling sponsorship, to Atalanta sending free shirts to every baby botn in Bergamo, to those clubs like St Pauli and Forest Green that look to project a very different ethos and image.Ī beautiful colorful book packed with pictures of iconic football shirts, Kit and Caboodle is designed to be savoured as much as to be read.
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The book is packed full of interesting anecodotes and stories, most of which were new to me. His disdain for the football business is equally apparent with the less pleasant side of football sponsorship and ownership. His passion for the sport of football shines through on every page.
Riley worked in Thai football for a number of years and is heavily involved in a range of football organisations. It’s his reflection on the beautiful game told through the prism of football shirts and many fascinating stories that show how football shirts can be, and should be, more than just fabric that exposes how fat we are all getting in middle age. Kit and Caboodle is Matt Riley’s love letter to football shirts and football in general.
So, full disclosure, I’m not objective in reviewing a book about football shirts. I have 10 old Ireland jerseys in my closet and I’m smiling just thinking about them. A classic jersey is a pure nostalgia hit, an instant teleportation to a beautiful memory or moment of football goodness. The older, the rarer, the randomer, the better. As kit here means one’s equipment, to put the two together in the sense of everything that one has, equipment and personal possessions, seems reasonable.I love football jerseys (or shirts as most seem to call them). Some writers suggest the latter comes from the English buddle, meaning a bundle or bunch (closely connected with bindle, as in the North American bindlestiff for a tramp). But it’s uncertain whether it’s the same word as the one in the whole kit and boodle. This is usually suggested as coming from the Dutch boedel, “inheritance, household effects possessions”. Sinclair Lewis used one of them in Main Street in 1920: “The whole kit and bilin’ of ’em are nothing in God’s world but socialism in disguise”.īoodle is familiar as the relatively modern US word for money illegally obtained, particularly linked to bribery and corruption. It seems that the whole kit and caboodle eventually won the linguistic battle for survival in the US because of that repeated “k” sound, though Dialect Notes in 1908 said that these other versions were still known from various parts of the country. It was also current in the US as the whole boodle from the 1830s. There are examples of similar phrases around the beginning of the nineteenth century, such as whole kit and boiling (or whole kit and bilin’) and whole kit and cargo, with the original very likely to have just been the whole kit - it’s recorded in this form in Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue in 1785. Featuring some of the most popular crossword puzzles, uses the knowledge of experts in history, anthropology, and science combined to provide you solutions when you cannot seem to guess the word.
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It’s probable that the word was originally boodle, with the phrase being the whole kit and boodle, but that the initial sound “k” was added to boodle for euphony. The clue 'Kit and caboodle' was last spotted by us at the Crossword Champ Pro Crossword on January 11 2019. It’s recorded in the US from the middle of the nineteenth century. It commonly turns up in the whole caboodle, meaning “the whole lot”. It means a collection of objects, sometimes of people. It’s been spelt down the years in many different ways, and these days is usually listed in dictionaries with an initial “c”. Q From Elma Brooks: What is the source of the whole kit and kaboodle?Ī Caboodle has a complicated history.
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