Think away strips started more regularly from 1950 and were maroon with white pinstripes, so yes our ‘traditional‘ combination. That said, there’s Pathe news footage of us losing in the Cup at the Den in 1937, where we appear to be wearing white shirts and black shorts, and I’ve also seen footage of us at Tottenham in the early 1960s, I think, where we are wearing yellow. It wasn’t luminous yellow mind…Despite the tory Scouse initially playing in Blue and White halved shirts...
Two of our first three FA Cups were won wearing maroon shirts and white shorts, iirc it was only Malcolm Allison who brought in the red and black stripes
Somewhat ironically, that’s pretty much how baseball was in the US from its inception in the 1870s through to around the 1960s. The home team wore white and the away team wore grey.I think it might have been metioned before, 1910's or so, rags and dippers wanted everyone to wear red for home and white for away.
Third, I think. Maybe something to do with neutral venues and teams having to wear contrasting colours for audiences watching in black and white.The rags all blue in 68.Was that their second strip.
I was born 1962 too and I love the red and black stripes.I was going to post the same thing. Those of a less FOC persuasion would probably go with red and black stripes as our traditional away kit. I was born in 1962, and I have no recollection of maroon being our away kit when I started going in the seventies.
Yeah; apparently, we did wear maroon back in the 50s, probably before that.I was born 1962 too and I love the red and black stripes.
Like you I have no recollection of maroon as our traditional away colours although I believe the evidence is against us.