New home kit?

[ChorltonCity]

If City turned up to play our home games next season wearing white shirts, what would your reaction be? City, just City in a different colour?

But the shorts are different to the kit. As mentioned previously, Liverpool used to wear white shorts but changed to red ones. We used to play in white ones but are now changing to blue ones. The powers that be obviously believe it looks better to have all the same colour. Changing the shirt is an entirely different thing altogether and wouldn't happen.

I'm not sure that bit in bold makes sense? Surely the shorts are part of the kit? 'The powers that be' aren't always right though. I'm not sure what's important to you, maybe it's the cheese, the cup scheme, Garry Cook's sometimes misguided comments, I'm sure there are things you think the powers that be have got wrong. For me this is one of them.

Yeh Liverpool changed to all red in the 60s and have stuck with it since. The don't have white shorts one season, red the next, stripy socks, white socks, they wear all red every season. They don't mess much with that kit now because it is the de-facto Liverpool kit. Same with United, Juve, Inter, Real, AC, you don't see them wearing different colour shorts or socks from season to season. I think City deserve the same amount of respect for tradition.

Actually Inter, AC and Juve have changed their socks and shorts regularly from white to black from season to season.
Also when Barca beat the Rags in '09 they wore blue shorts and red socks. This year they wore red shorts and blue socks.


So there

 

[Pigeonho]

If City turned up to play our home next season wearing white shirts, what would your reaction be? City, just City in a different colour?

But the shorts are different to the kit. As mentioned previously, Liverpool used to wear white shorts but changed to red ones. We used to play in white ones but are now changing to blue ones. The powers that be obviously believe it looks better to have all the same colour. Changing the shirt is an entirely different thing altogether and wouldn't happen.

I'm not sure that bit in bold makes sense? Surely the shorts are part of the kit? 'The powers that be' aren't always right though. I'm not sure what's important to you, maybe it's the cheese, the cup scheme, Garry Cook's sometimes misguided comments, I'm sure there are things you think the powers that be have got wrong. For me this is one of them.

Yeh Liverpool changed to all red in the 60s and have stuck with it since. The don't have white shorts one season, red the next, stripy socks, white socks, they wear all red every season. They don't mess much with that kit now because it is the de-facto Liverpool kit. Same with United, Juve, Inter, Real, AC, you don't see them wearing different colour shorts or socks from season to season. I think City deserve the same amount of respect for tradition.

My mistake, meant different to the shirt as in changing the shirt would be massive in comparison to the shorts. Just think the whole 'losing our ID' thing is a bit over the top.
Just did a little test on myself and picked a few clubs at random, (West Brom), being one of them and asked myself what colour shorts they wear. I had to look it up what colour theirs are, whereas I could probably answer positively if asked about which shirt any club wore. The shirt is what the focus is on, and the shirt is what people link to a club, colour wise.

 

[Shaelumstash]

Shaelumstash has made my day with his rant! Losing our identity? More dramatic than an episode of eastenders that! It's still City, just City in different colour shorts. Not a big fan of the blue shorts thing myself, but at the end of the day, and when all is said and done, who really cares?!

If City turned up to play our home games next season wearing white shirts, what would your reaction be? City, just City in a different colour?

The only City "tradition" is a sky blue shirt, and even that has been varied shades and had hugely varying trim.

We've had maroon socks, navy socks, striped socks, sky blue socks. We've had plain white shorts, shorts with trim and for periods in our history we've had blue shorts.

When I grew up City wore all sky blue with umbro trim.

It isn't a sacred cow, it doesn't matter a jot. Worry about something important like how we're going to replace Tevez or whether we will change our italian style.

Life's too short mate...

Well different things are important to different people. White shorts is a 'sacred cow' to me, we've worn them for 108 years and blue for 9, so blue shirts is not the only "tradition".

As ridiculous as you might find me being arsed about white shorts, it pales in to absolute insignificance compared with how ridiculous I think you hating Mancini is.

We play possession football, as do most of the top teams in Europe. Mancini has made us 10 times the team your boyfriend Lesley did.

Les was a complete failure as City manager and the sooner you stop staring out of rainy windows pining for him while listening to 80s power ballads the better.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

To be fair, I think he left of his own accord eventually. To the next boozer down the road.

Don't think he was particularly aggrieved with the sky blue shorts, seemed more of a rant about life in general. I'm not convinced he knew entirely where he was.

Great entertainment though, love him or loathe him he's a Mancunian institution in himself. Surely Umbro knew what they were getting. It'd be a bit rich if they suddenly complained he didn't tow the corporate line.

I remember at last year's kit launch seeing a visibly drunk Smith "debating" City's transfer policy to a very sober, very straight laced member of the board of directors outside a bar in the Northern Quarter. It was a sight to behold.

It was one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time though a bit embarassing as he was sat next to me and he was attracting more attention than the Umbro fella on stage.

His rant started the minute he walked through the door and covered topics as varied as 'Mike Doyle should have kicked George Bests head off' through to 'that Liam knobheads suddenly a big blue eh?' . His views on stripey socks and engrained soundwaves were a continuation on that theme.

"Come on Mark. Let's go outside for a smoke"

Possibly my finest hour. Especially as when we got outside Cressa from the Roses was there!

"....and the soundwaves represent...." (MES blows loud raspberry) Absolutely hilarious.

Big blue, Cressa. Used to use my season ticket sometimes as he was a mate of a mate. Was he at the event or just hanging round Oldham street? He used to be as much a part of the furniture there as Afflecks Palace.<br /><br />-- Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:31 am --<br /><br />

If City turned up to play our home games next season wearing white shirts, what would your reaction be? City, just City in a different colour?

The only City "tradition" is a sky blue shirt, and even that has been varied shades and had hugely varying trim.

We've had maroon socks, navy socks, striped socks, sky blue socks. We've had plain white shorts, shorts with trim and for periods in our history we've had blue shorts.

When I grew up City wore all sky blue with umbro trim.

It isn't a sacred cow, it doesn't matter a jot. Worry about something important like how we're going to replace Tevez or whether we will change our italian style.

Life's too short mate...

Well different things are important to different people. White shorts is a 'sacred cow' to me, we've worn them for 108 years and blue for 9, so blue shirts is not the only "tradition".

As ridiculous as you might find me being arsed about white shorts, it pales in to absolute insignificance compared with how ridiculous I think you hating Mancini is.

We play possession football, as do most of the top teams in Europe. Mancini has made us 10 times the team your boyfriend Lesley did.

Les was a complete failure as City manager and the sooner you stop staring out of rainy windows pining for him while listening to 80s power ballads the better.

Eh?

How the fuck is Mancini in this discussion?

ps I thought Hughes was a terrible manager, but it really isn't revevant to this thread.

Hope you get over the blue shorts.

 

[Gordyola]

I wasn't at the launch (never seem to get an invite), and so can't say what the kit looks like at all, but I really hope someone pops up later today to say: "sorry, about the joke with the shorts - they were the ones we rejected. We're having white as usual because that's our identity. We're MCFC."

So glad someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of the club agrees. Blue shirts and white shorts are part of City's identity. I wonder if we changed the colour of the shirt to white people would think it was so 'trivial'. I've made the point a few times and have yet to gain a response.

Absolutely agree with Gary. City's heritage colours are Sky Blue shirts and White shorts we get accused of having no history and now we are changing our heritage yes, we did wear blue shorts but for less than one tenth of our history under Swales so say no more! I am absolutely appalled by this decision and was equally appalled last time and the lazer blue under FHL It's a great pity that Umbro have blotted their copy book with this but hopefully it's not too late to put right

"Blue and White they go together we will live for every more"

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I've said it once and I'll say it again.

The melodrama of the modern multimedia football fan is something to behold.

It's pretty funny if I'm honest...

 

[Dubai Blue]

Eh?

How the fuck is Mancini in this discussion?

To be fair, it was you who brought it up in response to one of his earlier posts.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Eh?

How the fuck is Mancini in this discussion?

To be fair, it was you who brought it up in response to one of his earlier posts.

No I didn't. I gave two examples of what I believe to be issues of more importance to City's season than the bloody kit.

 

[Blue-man chu]

Relatively new to this forum ( 1 year ) but if there is one thread where some of the "normal blokes" on here lose the plot & perspective, not to mention sound like a bunch of mincing women, this is it.

(...." I don't like the collar!"......" Aaahhhh the socks are stripy"......" the shorts are blue!!! sobs.... " but we always have blue!!" .... " it makes my bum look big..."

FFS! it's s football kit, not Kate Middleton's wedding dress. More to the point it Manchester City's kit,.....the shirt we "dream of wearing".

What's not to love.

 

[dario2739]

To illustrate my point, look at this diagram and see if you can identify the teams...



I'll bet you can name every single team - as they keep their kit the same!

No if you was to ask someone to illustrate our kit... what do you think they'd do?
I think it'd be this...



So why can't City and Umbro grasp that?