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Long Sleeve one looks oreet :clap: .
Wonder if the away one will be White with Blue Collar un Cuffs! ! ! !Must admit that when I first saw pictures of the new kit I was hugely disappointed and also quite angry.
Such a dull design and why have we lost the iconic stripes? Why does the club feel it has to frig with our identity so much? The strip is our brand – how many other clubs do you see messing with the core of their strip?
Feel free to tweak the trim, the shorts, the socks – but to move from block blue to stripes and back again is just ridiculous. Do you see Newcastle, Sunderland, Stoke, etc etc doing the same.Even last year’s strip, whilst pushing it, kept the idea of the white stripe. I’d even have accepted a diagonal stripe al la Peru in Espana 82 over block blue.
That said, once I saw it in action I was slightly less incensed – it does look well made and the white shorts with the continuing blue stripe did improve the look…for the first time ever I might actually buy the shorts and not the top! :o
Such a dull design and why have we lost the iconic stripes? Why does the club feel it has to frig with our identity so much? The strip is our brand – how many other clubs do you see messing with the core of their strip?
Feel free to tweak the trim, the shorts, the socks – but to move from block blue to stripes and back again is just ridiculous. Do you see Newcastle, Sunderland, Stoke, etc etc doing the same. :oWhat identity is that then? We don’t and never have had any affiliation to a particular strip. Latics only started playing in “full” stripes in the 1977/78 season (the season before we got elected to the league) and then it didn’t last long. Before that it was basically plain blue – like the new kit – and before that it was blue with white sleeves.
Now, how far back do you want to go?
Before the war the strip was red and white halves. The change to blue only came about after the war because – as the story goes – that was the only strip available at the time!
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