City’s New Kits

[Gone for a Burton]

This was a home match:
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Everything was a bloody fiasco that day including the kit !!

 

[stonerblue]

When does a historical connection to the club begin?

The three kits you have given your blessing to - there are problems with them all by your reasoning.

The away one is almost a carbon copy of the kit we first wore in 1999. Have we whittled your timescale down to 25 years?
The third kit is maroon. We didn't wear maroon until the 50's. What was our changed kit before then? Should we stick to those forever more?
Even the home colours. For three years, we wore black with white. Imagine the flat capped gents back in the day bemoaning too much change? "We've changed our name, we're at a new ground, now we have to watch them wearing bloody sky blue."
We wore a sash in the 70's for the first time. We wore red and black for the first time in the 60's. We didn't wear black shirts from the St.Mark's days until the 00's. These are some of the most cherished kits amongst City fans. Things change.

The truth is, apart from a bit of pink trim, the Oasis kit is more traditional to City colours than the yellow and blue one. In the early 90's, we wore white shirts with sky blue shorts on many occasions. Yes, there's a hint of yellow on it but then we wore yellow shirts in the 60's, 90's, and 00's so historically, yellow has been City colours for 60 years.

It's fucking horrible though )

 

[Cellarite]

It's fucking horrible though )

Opinion. I’m undecided.

 

[MCFC Wirral]

Everything was a bloody fiasco that day including the kit !!

At least we can laugh about it now.

 

[Gone for a Burton]

At least we can laugh about it now.

Only just....what a bloody shambles.

 

[Lost in space]

At least we can laugh about it now.

At least until Haaland is subbed off for Carson to put Eddy up front in the CL final, with Bobb sat on the bench.

 

[MCFC Wirral]

At least until Haaland is subbed off for Carson to put Eddy up front in the CL final, with Bobb sat on the bench.

I’ve quite a dark (borderline gallows) sense of humour so most things crack me up.

Whilst it was utterly ridiculous from Pearce, if Fowler had put that penalty away then we’d have made Europe. If we hadn’t stayed up in the ten goals at home season then there’s no chance Thaksin Shinawatra would’ve bought us etc.

I don’t think about last season’s FA Cup Final anymore but Wigan still bothers me a little.

 

[RiversideBlue]

At least until Haaland is subbed off for Carson to put Eddy up front in the CL final, with Bobb sat on the bench.

Don't give pep ideas. He does like the occasional brain fart

 

[bitterblue78]

It's fucking horrible though )

On the kit change the other night - I've been thinking about this stuff a lot recently.

Whether or not people like the kit, that's by the by. Some do, some don't. Some liked the 99 play off kit, some don't. Some like us playing in red and black, some hate the idea of red on a City kit.

What isn't in dispute is that almost all City fans want us playing in sky blue and white at home. Almost all City fans want to pay a decent price for a home ticket. Selling loyalty points through season ticket boosters is not right. Sky changing kick off times so that West Ham fans can't get a Monday night train back from Newcastle isn't what West Ham or Newcastle fans want. Arsenal playing their derby at Spurs in an away kit isn't what Arsenal fans want. VAR wasn't what a lot of football fans wanted. Extra fixtures that we have to pay for and players have to play in isn't what fans and players want.

My point is that they (already have) are taking our game away from us. In Germany, they tried Monday night matches and the fans of most clubs demonstrated together and got them stopped. In this country, it's far too tribal and if we dare to have a dozen empty seats at a midweek match, we're ridiculed on social media.

It's the same as any aspect of life. Paying £8 for a beer at events, dynamic ticket pricing for gigs, Sky prices rising and rising even though football is taken off there when they lose contracts - but then make us feel like criminals when we find alternative ways to watch football on telly or buy football shirts from China instead of paying amounts that make your nose bleed. The masses will continue to have the piss taken out of them for as long as we put up with it.

It was something as little as the North London derby last week that brought all this to the front of my mind even though it had been bubbling away in the back for some time.

We want our fucking game back. Unfortunately, the only way we're going to get it is for huge amounts of people to simply say "no" and sadly, I don't believe there is enough of an appetite to do that.

We wore maroon in the 30s

 

[Tbilisi]

Our kid bought me the 99 away shirt. I was polite but told him to take it back and get a refund as the colours signified to me just how low City had fallen.

Last week he told me that he never took it back and that hes going to give it me again next time he sees me.

Hoping it fits!