WITH 2021 kits currently being a hot topic for rugby league clubs and fans, we have delved into the archives for these belting pictures of when a sponsor's name first appeared on a Warrington Wolves shirt.
This small collection features home and away kits from the 1983/84 season with 'Sparkomatic' emblazoned across the centre of the jersey.
Mark Forster celebrates Paul Ford's try at Bradford
Mike Gregory is tracked by Henderson Gill at Wigan
Sparkomatic sold car speakers, cassette players, radios and other audio accessories.
That was the period when replica shirts became all the rage for supporters, and was perhaps the birth of rugby league clubs' commercial growth that led to full-time professionalism.
Nowadays, of course, the many sponsors' names and logos that appear on shirts, shorts and socks in some instances - along with the sales of replica kits - are crucial streams of income for clubs
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