18/19 home and away kits ?

Will always prefer maroon as our away kit, even though I grew up with the red n black as our away, used to have a colour version of the 56 cup final, loved that shirt aince I first saw it


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"The good old days" are those "glory years" experienced in the late 60s and 70s, which is the ONLY glory time almost anyone still alive could recognize as "good old days."

As has been said in the past, many many teams wore black or navy socks back in the day because they were easier to keep clean and look better, but SURELY ANYONE WHO IS ALIVE recognizes that sky blue shirt, white shorts and sky blue socks with maroon turnover is considered "Classic City"?

C'mon guys! I know the kit manufacturers, all 57 (Heinz varieties!) of them, have sought to create some "new and interesting" kits. I also realize a few of them have become "classics" solely because of what happened in them ('99 Play-Off anyone). However, I honestly feel like anyone who was asked to draw Classic City kits, home and away, would pick sky/white/sky for the home kit and red & black stripes/black/black for the away kit, with many many desiring the white with diagonal stripes as the "third kit."

I realize a few of you are young enough that more recent kits with navy socks is what you identify with because you started watching City during that "new" era, but I don't know ANYONE who sees navy socks as a Classic City identifier.

My thoughts on this issue are worth as much as you paid for them, but I think they reflect more City fans than not.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
"The good old days" are those "glory years" experienced in the late 60s and 70s, which is the ONLY glory time almost anyone still alive could recognize as "good old days."

As has been said in the past, many many teams wore black or navy socks back in the day because they were easier to keep clean and look better, but SURELY ANYONE WHO IS ALIVE recognizes that sky blue shirt, white shorts and sky blue socks with maroon turnover is considered "Classic City"?

C'mon guys! I know the kit manufacturers, all 57 (Heinz varieties!) of them, have sought to create some "new and interesting" kits. I also realize a few of them have become "classics" solely because of what happened in them ('99 Play-Off anyone). However, I honestly feel like anyone who was asked to draw Classic City kits, home and away, would pick sky/white/sky for the home kit and red & black stripes/black/black for the away kit, with many many desiring the white with diagonal stripes as the "third kit."

I realize a few of you are young enough that more recent kits with navy socks is what you identify with because you started watching City during that "new" era, but I don't know ANYONE who sees navy socks as a Classic City identifier.

My thoughts on this issue are worth as much as you paid for them, but I think they reflect more City fans than not.
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Really... Even from that distance ??
 
ChicagoBlue said:
"The good old days" are those "glory years" experienced in the late 60s and 70s, which is the ONLY glory time almost anyone still alive could recognize as "good old days."

As has been said in the past, many many teams wore black or navy socks back in the day because they were easier to keep clean and look better, but SURELY ANYONE WHO IS ALIVE recognizes that sky blue shirt, white shorts and sky blue socks with maroon turnover is considered "Classic City"?

C'mon guys! I know the kit manufacturers, all 57 (Heinz varieties!) of them, have sought to create some "new and interesting" kits. I also realize a few of them have become "classics" solely because of what happened in them ('99 Play-Off anyone). However, I honestly feel like anyone who was asked to draw Classic City kits, home and away, would pick sky/white/sky for the home kit and red & black stripes/black/black for the away kit, with many many desiring the white with diagonal stripes as the "third kit."

I realize a few of you are young enough that more recent kits with navy socks is what you identify with because you started watching City during that "new" era, but I don't know ANYONE who sees navy socks as a Classic City identifier.

My thoughts on this issue are worth as much as you paid for them, but I think they reflect more City fans than not.
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I think it all depends on age. People fortunate enough to remember the 60s think of the maroon turnovers as the "classic City kit" but the truth is we only wore them for 2 or 3 seasons.

People in their 30s and 40s generally think of the classic City kit as sky blue shirts, white shorts, navy blue socks. The 86 youth FA Cup final era, start of the Premier League etc. It's also the colours we've worn the most in our history - by far, over 80 years.

Whether we wore navy socks because it was impossible to manufacture sky blue ones for some reason, or they were all that was left in lost property, or whatever, the truth is we wore them for 80 years, the reasons a largely irrelevant.

Apparently we wore "Cambridge blue" shirts because it was a Masonic colour and we were ran by Masons. Whether that's true or not is pretty irrelevant to me. I have no attachment to the Masons and don't much care if that's the reason or not. The fact is we've worn those colour shirts for 100 years or more, so it's important we keep them. Same with the socks for me.

Also seeing sky blue shirts, white shorts and sky socks could be a number of teams - Coventry, Lazio, Napoli, Celta Vigo etc. But sky blue shirts, white shorts, navy socks, that is unquestionably, unmistakably Manchester City, no other team in world football wears that combination. It's unique to Manchester City.
 
Shaelumstash said:
I think it all depends on age. People fortunate enough to remember the 60s think of the maroon turnovers as the "classic City kit" but the truth is we only wore them for 2 or 3 seasons.

People in their 30s and 40s generally think of the classic City kit as sky blue shirts, white shorts, navy blue socks. The 86 youth FA Cup final era, start of the Premier League etc. It's also the colours we've worn the most in our history - by far, over 80 years.

Whether we wore navy socks because it was impossible to manufacture sky blue ones for some reason, or they were all that was left in lost property, or whatever, the truth is we wore them for 80 years, the reasons a largely irrelevant.

Apparently we wore "Cambridge blue" shirts because it was a Masonic colour and we were ran by Masons. Whether that's true or not is pretty irrelevant to me. I have no attachment to the Masons and don't much care if that's the reason or not. The fact is we've worn those colour shirts for 100 years or more, so it's important we keep them. Same with the socks for me.

Also seeing sky blue shirts, white shorts and sky socks could be a number of teams - Coventry, Lazio, Napoli, Celta Vigo etc. But sky blue shirts, white shorts, navy socks, that is unquestionably, unmistakably Manchester City, no other team in world football wears that combination. It's unique to Manchester City.
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It's always been light blue and maroon for me, not just the socks though sky blue white and maroon is also the classic City scarf, I don't like the scarves with navy in them and can't remember seeing them with navy in until fairly recently. But as you say I started supporting about 1970, and always think navy sock look like we've forgotton our kit and borrowed them.
 
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