Yellow Shirt Arsenal Away 1989

More of an orange than yellow this one, but have a look at this cracker of an away strip from our 1960-61 season
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I’d bloody love that as an away strip from Puma for next season. Orange (not that highlighter pen orange Nike and Le Coq Sportif did for us), with maroon trim and white shorts.

Belting!
He's deep in thought there, almost Luke Skywalkeresque, knowing he'll be tempted by the dark side but, ultimately, he'll return and deliver the ultimate blow to the Salford Sith.
 
More of an orange than yellow this one, but have a look at this cracker of an away strip from our 1960-61 season
c66ba69fb26ece2b5024a0357255675c--denis-law-retro-football.jpg


I’d bloody love that as an away strip from Puma for next season. Orange (not that highlighter pen orange Nike and Le Coq Sportif did for us), with maroon trim and white shorts.

Belting!

Would look even more beltin with maroon shorts and the etihad in maroon (white tramlines round the sock tops)
 
More of an orange than yellow this one, but have a look at this cracker of an away strip from our 1960-61 season
c66ba69fb26ece2b5024a0357255675c--denis-law-retro-football.jpg


I’d bloody love that as an away strip from Puma for next season. Orange (not that highlighter pen orange Nike and Le Coq Sportif did for us), with maroon trim and white shorts.

Belting!
The shirts were actually yellow. That image is a coloured in version used in a football annual at the time. To see the kit in all its glory watch this (the kit appears after about 5 mins 30 seconds): https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-saturday-fever-1961-online
 
I worked at Umbro at the time and this was a bog standard kit used by amateur clubs, in boxes of 12 IIRC and selling at little more than £10.00 apiece wholesale .
The line was called Napoli and also came in sky blue with navy collar and cuffs and red with white collar and cuffs. This one was technically amber and navy (and was similar to Oxford United's shirt: https://oxfordkits.com/1985.html) which is why the yellow shorts and socks don't match - so not all-yellow!
The shirts were taken off the shelf and simply badged up.
But the point of this kit wasn't to wear it at Highbury, where there would have been no colour clash, but Hillsborough on New Year's Day where there would have been, given that the away shirt was maroon and white stripes.
Peter Swales was purported to have said we would never wear yellow again.
In the event, a new, more professional maroon kit was devised and worn at Hillsborough.
I was at Highbury on that infamous afternoon. However, I got there late due to a catalogue of travel mishaps and missed the kick-off but thought I'd somehow gone to the wrong ground!

Here's the shirt at Sheffield Wednesday January 1st 1990 and also used at Spurs, Luton, Millwall & QPR with the collar being added to the following season's design.

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Spurs away openign day 90/91 season with new collar added and change of shorts.

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Here's the shirt at Sheffield Wednesday January 1st 1990 and also used at Spurs, Luton, Millwall & QPR with the collar being added to the following season's design.

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Spurs away openign day 90/91 season with new collar added and change of shorts.

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I went to that game,think it was an 11 oclock kick of if I remember rightly,the coach was hanging as were all the fans on it, and at the arsenal away yellow kit match :)
 

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