13, 27 August 1928) reported, “The 35,000 spectators were able to give credit for each bit of good work to the correct individual, because the team were numbered, and the large figures in black on white squares enabled each man to be identified without trouble.” The Daily Mirror (“Numbered Jerseys A Success”, jersey store near me soccer shorts p. 29, 27 August 1928) also covered the match: “I fancy the scheme has come to stay. All that was required was a lead and London has supplied it.” When Chelsea toured Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil at the end of the season in the summer of 1929, they also wore numbered shirts, soccer kit earning the nickname “Los Numerados” (“the numbered”) from locals.
