City away kit at Spurs in 1960?

[TravisBickle]

Post that in the media thread mate - commentator banging on about how much city players cost.

Sounds like it’s Stuart Hall commentating

 

[eyalluvitt]

1960, When Richard Wright was named our 4th choice keeper

 

[Blue Theatre]

And flat caps. They wouldn't let you in if you weren't wearing one back then.

And of course, anyone over the age of 30 and "brought up proper" should be wearing a tie when out in public.

 

[Gary James]

Probably one for @Gary James, or some of our older users, but had a couple of emails about this recently. Can anyone shed any light on this?




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This is the game in question:

Tottenham Hotspur vs Manchester City, Division One (Old), Sat 16 April 1960

Details of every game played by Manchester City Football Club

bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk

That was our regular away kit that season. We never wore maroon and gold hoops but we did frequently wear maroon and yellow.

 

[Gary James]

Here’s another I’ve never seen before if it’s the colour it seems. It’s hard to tell in greyscale but it seems darker than maroon, maybe navy or black?

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Unless it’s just the way the picture has come out and it’s just the maroon one?

It is maroon and white.

 

[Gary James]

There's footage out there of City's visit to Leeds just a couple of weeks before that game at Spurs:



It's in black-and-white, but Leeds are wearing what must be dark blue shirts (this being before Revie changed their home kit to all white). The commentator refers at the start to City's new away kit of "old gold and black". I assume it must be the same shirt as we wore at Spurs - we surely can't have had two different away kits of similar colours at the same time - but we're wearing black shorts at Elland Road.

It wasn't until the mid-seventies that there was a requirement for the away side to wear different colour shorts to avoid a clash, but we wore white shorts at Spurs. I can only guess that was to avoid a similarity to the very dark blue shorts Spurs were wearing in that game.

We apparently did have a yellow and black version though I’ve never seen a colour photo of it or film. Fred Eyre told me once that was the away kit when he was an apprentice.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

It is maroon and white.

Thanks Gary, just seemed much darker than maroon in the b+w photo

 

[TedofChume]

I knew I'd seen this kit before, worn by Debis Law in Manchester The Greatest City 1st edition by Gary James page 218:

 

[TedofChume]

I knew I'd seen this kit before, worn by Debis Law in Manchester The Greatest City 1st edition by Gary James page 218:

 

[Bluearmy]

We won away in 1960? Wow.

We were pissed up tho ;)