Shaelumstash
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it's not the preferred colour and its resurgence under Soriano City suggests it's the management or Nike at work. Certainly they've taken the use of navy to a whole different level to anything we've seen in the past. Navy was a third trim colour and the historic (but not now preferred) sock colour. Now it's our shirt sleeve colour, it's also completely replaced white (the mandatory trim colour) on the kit at times, that's why people have actually turned off having any navy at all on the kit because it's been so misused.
I'm not sure if you're a relatively new fan, but navy has been on our kits from the mid 80s, all the way through the 90s and 00s. The only two kits I can remember with no navy whatsoever was the first two Umbro kits after we went back to them.
It's absolutely not a Sorriano thing to "re-introduce" navy. It's been a staple of our kit for the best part of the last 30 years. In fact, we've haven't had navy socks once since the takeover, despite it being the colour of socks we've worn most in our history (over 80 years). So if anything, navy has become a less prominent colour in recent years than in the past.
Bring back the navy socks.