City’s New Kits

urban genie said:
It was a shite kit, with a shite badge, decent sponsor and a life size lara croft on its launch
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I actually really liked that shirt, but as I've gotten older, I've come to realise as a kid and teenager I just liked anything that was sky blue with our badge on it.

Also, a life size Lara Croft is not a bad thing.
 
TedofChume said:
If that's the new 4th kit then its class

If that's the new 4th kit then its class
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As much as I like it, if we're now talking about having 4 new kits every season it's a total piss take, especially given the price of them. I actually think three is too many and they should not be changed every season. If this is true then you could have 12 different kits in 3 seasons which is just madness.
 
kun said:
Sounds beautiful
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I was never a big fan of maroon personally, although I know it's one of our traditional colours. Seems odd when we'll be playing at West Ham and Villa, (maybe but unlikely, Burnley too). With all the different kits now why do we need to wear one with similar colours?
 
jimharri said:
God, no. Let's be honest here; that kit has attained cult status, thanks to the occasion. Ignore the game for a moment,and look at the kit coldly and dispassionate. It's horrible. If they want to revive a previous away kit, do this one.....

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That is one gorgeous shirt.
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Oddly, I don't remember that one at all.
 
dickie davies said:
You're a wrong'un

Navy socks = class

Name another team that plays in sky blue and white, with dark socks!
Apart from being our traditional home strip, it is unique and as soon as that kit is seen anywhere in the world should be instantly recognised as Manchester City

It does amaze me how supporters of teams such as Bayern Munich tolerate the annual change of home kit colour
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I agree with the sentiment, but weren't our socks originally maroon? I'm pretty sure we never used to have dark blue on the colour palette, the main colours were always a combination of sky blue, white and maroon as far as I can remember.
 
kev20971 said:
Some will point out that maroon as only been on our kit a couple of times thoughout our history, but when we've had it on, it's always seemed a lucky omen , last season prime example, and personally for me it's the colours of City , ie Sky blue, white and maroon, just like the classic bar scarfs.
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Umm...I'm not sure about that. I could be wrong, but way back in the day, before we played on sky blue I believe our original colours were maroon shirts with narrow blue stripes.

I'm not quite that old but I always remember our colours being sky blue with white shorts and maroon trim (socks, maybe collar etc.) - I'm going back to late 60's, early 70's. Away was the black and red stripes, black shorts and socks IIRC, seemed to be the same for years. I don't remember navy blue ever being used back then. That said I prefer it to maroon, not a football thing, I've just never liked maroon very much.
 
coolcity said:
I agree with the sentiment, but weren't our socks originally maroon? I'm pretty sure we never used to have dark blue on the colour palette, the main colours were always a combination of sky blue, white and maroon as far as I can remember.
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I’m certain that for the first 70 years or so dark socks were our first choice, although we may have had sky and white hooped for just a few of those years
The maroon turn over was introduced late 1960’s, after which we alternated between dark blue and sky blue, and then in the 90’s introduced those girly white socks
 
mattcity5 said:
Bloody hell, my memory.... :D

I know the home and the dark blue/maroon/white kit (loved that one) did.
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You're not on your own. I still have the shirt, albeit the short sleeve version but I thought it had the logo on the sleeves too. Had to go and dig it out to check. I'd forgotten I still had it. Still fits too - sort of....
 
dickie davies said:
I’m certain that for the first 70 years or so dark socks were our first choice, although we may have had sky and white hooped for just a few of those years
The maroon turn over was introduced late 1960’s, after which we alternated between dark blue and sky blue, and then in the 90’s introduced those girly white socks
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Didn't we have the white socks back in the 70's on the away kit? Only reason I mention it is our school kit was the black/red shirt, black shorts and white socks with black and red hoops around the top. My understanding was that City had donated the kit to the school. That was early 70's, 73-75ish.
 
bitterblue78 said:
Chinese new year shirt
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This is the very shirt that led me to this thread today - because I've just got back from the local park in Blackpool where there was some kid wearing this exact shirt. I knew it wasn't one I'd seen before, but didn't get near enough to him to ask what it was or where he got it from.
 
coolcity said:
Didn't we have the white socks back in the 70's on the away kit? Only reason I mention it is our school kit was the black/red shirt, black shorts and white socks with black and red hoops around the top. My understanding was that City had donated the kit to the school. That was early 70's, 73-75ish.
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We may have had to play in white socks occasionally if there was a colour clash
 
BLUEYESTU said:
I absolutely love that shirt but they always for stupid money on eBay. I’ve never understood why a retro version of that hasn’t been made like all the other classic ones.
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We did have a very similar one before that, it was a Le Coq one so must have been early 2000s. Sash was going the opposite way though, top right to bottom left.
 
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