City’s New Kits

acton28 said:
Kevin Godley, Graham Gouldman and Lol Creme got it spot on. They didn't even have: http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Manchester_City/Manchester_City.htm


Seems like 1976-85 was the sky blue short era. 06/07, 11/12, 14/15, 16/17, and 21/22 being the 5 other seasons where sky blue seemed easier to wash than brilliant white. Four seasons of black/grey/navy shorts as Ardwick and early MCFC are reflected in later trims but never appear as a home main short colour.

Between 1897 and 1976 there were only white shorts. Right? Mostly sky blue or white socks.

Occasionally navy or black socks (1887-1951). Back 1987-93. The laser blue years embraced it too.

The maroon trim introduced in 62/63 (back 66-72) was class and it is good to see it back.
Sadly only seen in socks in my life time. 2010/11 obviously had it and 17/18 lesser so.

Never truly understood the 72-74 red/white and blue socks. Or the 19/20 purple bits, no matter how they're justified.

Probably a way to use maths and calculate the perfect City historical kit:

Shirt: sky blue with maroon and white trim. Navy somewhere on there, as a sponsor likely.

Shorts: white, mostly

Socks: bar white/blue with a maroon and navy trim.

Gotta be close:

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Occasionally navy socks? We’ve had navy socks for 20 odd years more than we’ve had sky socks
 
urban genie said:
14 years out of 127, doesn't make it part of our DNA, just an anomaly, unfortunately Umbro made an error in 76 changing to all blue in a time when kits lasted 2-3 seasons, they corrected that error in 85 and went back to tradition.

It took 20 more years before tradition was broken by lacoq, and only 5 more times in the last 16 years has our kit makers used blue shorts, nike being the worst perpetrators of this deviation.

14 years is nowt in terms of our kit history
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2 of those 14 are 2 of the most iconic seasons in our history, which will have those kits plastered around the stadium and in City content forever more. All the more reason why kit manufacturers will continue to use the colour scheme, it also gives them more variety in kit designs.

Whether we like it or not as fans doesn’t change the above one bit.
 
jimmygrimblesboots said:
Nipped over to the Clubshop and bought the new shirt with KingCol on the back , one of the best shirts for years , got a BBQ on Sunday with quite a few Rags and Dippers in attendance , will be pointing to the Champions emblem on the sleeve and telling them "you aint got one of them have you ?" .
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Don't let the dippers in without a valid ticket.
 
Citizen Green said:
2 of those 14 are 2 of the most iconic seasons in our history, which will have those kits plastered around the stadium and in City content forever more. All the more reason why kit manufacturers will continue to use the colour scheme, it also gives them more variety in kit designs.

Whether we like it or not as fans doesn’t change the above one bit.
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True 85 when we beat charlton to come up and 2007 when pearce bored us to tears are iconic moments to be sure.

And I was wrong it's 13 years, one of the kits I was thinking off was the munich aniversary kit, technically 12 because the 06/07 season we have white shorts and blue ones as home shorts.

The play off final kit is one of the worst kits we have ever had, and is iconic and will be remembered forever, but we should never recreate it, same goes for all blue home kits for the title wins and every year we do it I will call blue shorts wank as will many others
 
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