City’s New Kits

[Suffolk Blue]

I wonder, if under the lights, the shirt on the new kit clashed with the refereeing team, I swear at one point in the second half we played a ball directly to the linesman!

 

[Cellarite]

I wonder, if under the lights, the shirt on the new kit clashed with the refereeing team, I swear at one point in the second half we played a ball directly to the linesman!

Akanji has said just that. He got confused with the linesman and passed to him.

 

[MCFC Wirral]

Can't believe someone didn't have the bollocks to tell Noel to fuck right off with that rancid design

I would imagine it was like episodes of The Apprentice where they tell professional designers what they’d like and let them do it. John Squire was noted for his art. He painted the Roses designs on their records but Noel did not.

Oasis could have sponsored shirts back in the day but no more.

 

[jazzy]

Just watched City women's highlights and it suited them better but was still not great

 

[TueartsCossackSpray]

Looked like a school dinner lady’s tabard. Wonder if the post match meal was Chicken supreme and tapioca pudding.

 

[Gary James]

For years I used to think this picture was of a United game at Maine Road from when they played there looking at the colours of the kits, but it is a picture of City v Portsmouth in the FA Cup on 11th January 1936:

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Looking at the kits, it looks like both team are in their away kits: City maroon shirts, white shorts, black socks; and Portsmouth white shirts, black shorts and socks.

Similar to the FA Cup final two years earlier but with us in black socks like the 1933 FA Cup final rather than the hooped socks of the 1934 final.

1933 final:
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1934 final:

It looks like every decade from 1920s to now we’ve chosen to wear wear a 2nd/3rd/4th/alternative kit at home. Sometimes it’s a merchandise thing; sometimes it’s a manager/coach decision; sometimes it’s a cockup by an away team or a ref suggestion, but it’s happened. Often the colour chosen is red too! 1924 ‘lucky’ scarlet 1960s/70s red and black, 1980s red/black. Plus other colours over the last century or so.

Malcolm Allison even wanted us to use red/black as our home kit on a permanent basis at one point. Football & traditions are never as clear cut as some often think. More in my piece on it:

Wearing Alternative Kits At Home

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[its a Barm]

I have to say I don't really comment on kits generally go with whatever we have but the choice of playing in that last night was very wrong we are at home and we play in blue end of.

 

[bladdered]

An old mate of mine, sadly long gone, stopped going to Maine Road when we starting wearing sponsors names on shirts. He would be turning in his grave if he saw that monstrosity from last night.

 

[DiscoSteve]

Couldn't believe how bad that kit was last night,

They all looked like School Dinner Ladies running around in tabbards FFS

(apart from Rodri who kept his shirt well tucked in his shorts!)

 

[Mike N]

Heard someone say yesterday that Oasis deserved a ‘thank you’ as they fought our corner when we were crap.

There’s no doubt that they did but so did Ricky Hatton. Hope we don’t bring a tribute kit out for him next with a massive pair of boxing shorts!