Jack's World Cuppa

wb

Cleaning out the attic and found this little gem.

It's an empty tin of tea-bags from Italia 90. It's about 8 inches high.

Jack Charlton is on the front with a mug of tae.

Jack's World Cuppa

Gas!

Anyone remember this? The tea was Robert Roberts.

gipi

Not only do I remember it, I still use it as my tea bag caddy!!

ghost_ie

I don't remember the box but our daughter was 4 years old at the time and had just started school. On match days when my husband wasn't on duty (he worked shifts) we'd pick her up from school and bring her to the local to watch the game. Funnily enough, and he didn't trade shifts, he was always off duty when Ireland was playing. Trays of sandwiches were passed around at half time.

Then came the fatal game. Because it was played in the evening we got a babysitter for our daughter and toddled off to the pub to watch the match. The first comments we were met with were "Where's our mascot?" We explained she was in bed, and that it was also after the hour when infants were supposed to be evicted from pubs. The reply was that an exception would have been made for her.

We were tolerated during half time (they didn't whip the trays of sandwiches from under our noses but let us take our share - albeit to remarks like "the young one would have taken the cheese ones"). We began to feel isolated.

Ireland lost that match and we were out of the World Cup. It was some weeks before we could walk into the pub again without being verbally abused for not bringing the "mascot" on that fateful evening.

jamesdiver

This tin was in our grannys house for years, wish we could find it.

uch

Found this lad at home recently, label still attached