City’s New Kits

[Cellarite]

We wore maroon in the 30s

Doesn’t really change my point does it?

 

[jimharri]

I hope that monstrosity never sees the light of day again. "ugly" doesn't do it justice.

 

[MCFC Wirral]

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!

I’ve been to Tbilisi.

Would thoroughly recommend the nil by mouth diet if you want to lose some timber.

 

[Tbilisi]

I’ve been to Tbilisi.

Would thoroughly recommend the nil by mouth diet if you want to lose some timber.

Was there 1997, would love to go back.

 

[MCFC Wirral]

Was there 1997, would love to go back.

I really enjoyed it. Georgia v Wales in about 2017. The match was at Dinamo’s ground and I thought of Kinky throughout as he was my first favourite City player.

A few of us missed the buses to take us to the ground so I led us there via their Metro system during rush hour. More Taffs were lost so there was about a dozen of us in those daft hats we all wear getting on the train in front of conservative Georgians.

I can still see Tom Lawrence’s goal going in now.

 

[Tbilisi]

I really enjoyed it. Georgia v Wales in about 2017. The match was at Dinamo’s ground and I thought of Kinky throughout as he was my first favourite City player.

A few of us missed the buses to take us to the ground so I led us there via their Metro system during rush hour. More Taffs were lost so there was about a dozen of us in those daft hats we all wear getting on the train in front of conservative Georgians.

I can still see Tom Lawrence’s goal going in now.

13 visas issued the year we went. Just after the Civil war, there was a tray at hotel reception to deposit your guns ffs.

Met some Georgian lads in a bar and they said they could get tickets for the match v Italy (Kinky played, main reason for going to Georgia) so we said great and arranged a meet pre match.
We roll up at the gates with about 2000 others....then one tapped me on the shoulder and next thing I know is we all rushed the gates. We got in, security just sacked it off as a bad job.

The lads I know could not speak English at the time but can now. We got in a few scrapes but if we said Kinkladze, Manchester, we immediately got help.

Im a FOC now so want to go back while I still can. The changes I see on TV etc compared to 1997 are incredible so it would be brilliant to go.

 

[MCFC Wirral]

@Tbilisi



I was living in Clayton at the time and the locals in The Halfway House gave me a heroes reception as I got back to the pub after landing. They’d all watched and cheered us on.

 

[urban genie]

NEVER wear that Oasis kit again in a primary fixture home or away.

It was a brand and marketing error....we have 3 approved kits with an historical connection to the club.

Sell the Oasis kit but don't wear it !!

for 80%ish of our history citys colours are:

Blue and white home

maroon away

our 3 core colours are sky blue, white and maroon.

anything else is comercial marketing bollocks

 

[M23 Citizen]

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.

St Marks, Gorton and Ardwick are not ‘we’. They were a different football club(s) to Manchester City FC.

Before City were formed in 1894, there was nothing. Those clubs were not forerunners to City. Ardwick still existed and even played a game after City were formed.

 

[M23 Citizen]

for 80%ish of our history citys colours are:

Blue and white home

maroon away

our 3 core colours are sky blue, white and maroon.

anything else is comercial marketing bollocks

Navy is a big core colour for City home kits.

For 80 years of our 130 years, we’ve had navy socks or at least navy trim on our home kits.

We’ve only had maroon anywhere on our home kits for 8 years of our 130 years.

This what we were formed as a club wearing and is our most common kit combination that we’ve worn for 66 years of our history:



We only had solid sky blue socks for the first time after nearly seven decades after we were formed and this has been our home kit for just 37 years of our history.