Colour clashes and third kit

[chedinho]

There is a reason as by premier league rules you can only wear your away kit 7 or 8 times a season and its not only shirts that clash its shorts and socks so say we played Fulham away and we had used our away kit 7 times already our home socks would clash with Fulhams so we need a 3rd just in case

This is wrong sorry. There is not limit on how many times you can wear your away kit.

The ruling is around how many times you HAVE to wear it before you can sell it as a replica kit. If you wear a kit 8 times during a season then it becomes a replica kit, otherwise you have to release it as a limited edition. Think back to the third kits that are released on this basis.

The exception is the Euro Away Kit. No such rule applies so as long as we wear it in our away games then we can sell it in th shop.

i didnt know that.wondered why they were calling some strips limited edition.<br /><br />-- Fri May 24, 2013 4:18 pm --<br /><br />

You can only where an away kit a maximum of 8 times a season unless it is necessary to wear it again but that is in the hands of the officials but they might see things differently from the manager and players so its just simpler to have a 3rd kit in case that happens

What a stupid rule. May explain why City played in the dull bluey-grey 3rd kit last season (11/12) away to Villa rather than the contrasting red/black away colours.

Probably looked sufficiently different on the pitch, but on the telly in the pub the two strips were virtually indistinguishable!

I remember thinking that during match - that was terrible. The picture above in no way does justice to how hard it was to tell the sides apart on the broadcast.

i dont understand why teams are allowed to play in the same colour shorts these days

 

[Dunne's own goal]

Imagine the uproar on here if the Sheikh decided we were changing our home colours to red due to some Abu Dhabi link similar to what happened at Cardiff.

Would hope there would be a 50,000 crowd protest (at least) outside the ground if someone ever tried that with us!

Would prefer to be shit again and poor than rich and winning playing in red. Doubt Mansour would ever contemplate something like that though thankfully!

Even a thought of that made me feel sick. Seriously.

 

[Anthony Kun]

Imagine the uproar on here if the Sheikh decided we were changing our home colours to red due to some Abu Dhabi link similar to what happened at Cardiff.

Would hope there would be a 50,000 crowd protest (at least) outside the ground if someone ever tried that with us!

Would prefer to be shit again and poor than rich and winning playing in red. Doubt Mansour would ever contemplate something like that though thankfully!

Even a thought of that made me feel sick. Seriously.

The thought makes me cringe. I couldn't even post it being quite superstitious...

 

[Plaything of the gods]

Would never happen because of them. Could be changed to pink though ;)

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

Is there really a need for a third kit? I've just watched the highlights of City vs Chelsea in St Louis. Both teams wearing their home colours and NO colour clash. Apart from teams playing in sky blue, or with the same shorts and socks, are there any other opponents whose colours require City to don the away kit? The third kit just seems a means to get extra revenue in, although the grey/black one this past season was pretty damn cool.

Unfortunately the third kit is compulsory to meet FFP, and no doubt there will be a fourth kit as well down the line.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I remember one season contacting Chris Bird, asking him why we were wore an away strip at Liverpool and the reply was the club were contracted to wear one of the two away shirts at every away game, the only exception being at The Swamp.......

 

[green pennies]

Imagine the uproar on here if the Sheikh decided we were changing our home colours to red due to some Abu Dhabi link similar to what happened at Cardiff.

Would hope there would be a 50,000 crowd protest (at least) outside the ground if someone ever tried that with us!

Would prefer to be shit again and poor than rich and winning playing in red. Doubt Mansour would ever contemplate something like that though thankfully!

Even a thought of that made me feel sick. Seriously.

The thought makes me cringe. I couldn't even post it being quite superstitious...

Our ownership is far too savvy to pull such a move. They seem to have struck a great balance between respecting and understanding tradition and pushing City forward.

The Cardiff thing still makes me a little mad every time I think about it.

 

[Deleted member 52846]

Money!! No other reason. When I was a kid in the 80's one new kit came out a year. A home kit one year and an away the next. That was my birthday/Xmas present sorted each year!
Now it's 3 kits a year. FFP was always going to sting the fans. Nice one platini.

We've been doing this since the days of Joe Royle and Le Coq Sportif, though. Platini was only remembered for his footballing and FFPR meant nowt back then.

 

[Gabriel]

From a global marketing perspective, I'd imagine our light/sky blue colour gives us a distinct advantage as there are few club teams with that combination around the world.

 

[GeekinGav]

Here's a thought .... 'You don't have to buy every kit, every season!' ..... strange concept I know .... some might even think there is logic in it lol

3rd kits are usually there if the away kit clashes with the home teams kit or the referee's. (hence why ref's have 3/4 kits now). Also there for TV and the players, if the kits blend together at certain distances.

No one wants to blame their bad performances on the fact they cant see each other .. who'd do a daft thing like that?