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Thanks Bernard. That’d be great and save me some effort.
There is a possibility the colours were green, which would tie in with a nickname of the Linnets (Runcorn and Barry are also called this and wear green, and there is a Derbyshire Regiment called the “Green Linnets”).
Anything would be useful.
The photo used in the book (1925/26) is indeed the one Bert acquired via the son of one of the players. George, you are the colourization king. The hue of the strip does suggest green. The same photo is used on the cover and given an amber(ish) tint.
Didn’t goalkeepers use yellow shirts around that period? Green goalkeeper jerseys came a little later?
I thought I had a Boro programme that confirmed the colour was green. Sadly, I was mistaken, the programme merely indicates ‘Linnets’, NOT Green.
….The same photo is used on the cover and given an amber(ish) tint……Didn’t goalkeepers use yellow shirts around that period? Green goalkeeper jerseys came a little later?
The cover photo on the book does have a sepia tone, but that I think is to make it authentic monochrome rather than give a hint of what he thought the colour was,
Before 1909 goalkeepers wore the same colours as the rest of the team, but in 1909 rules were introduced to identify them. At first they had to be red, blue or white, with green being added a few years later. Most teams adopted green because there were fewer teams in that colour to clash with, but obviously Boro would be red or blue. I have started work on colourising this group and am going with red for the keeper.
Yellow was restricted to the England national team, although League games in Scotland tended to have yellow keepers jumpers.
This only applied to the Football League, so some of you may have seen keepers in yellow jerseys in Latics’ non-league days.
Published on YOTAC yonks ago and currently residing in the TNS archives.
Also, Wigan Wednesday Athletic, Wigan Amateurs, Wigan Association FC, Wigan United (2), Wigan Athletic RLFC and tons more.
Ermmmm what aboutWigan County
Wigan United
Wigan Town
Don’t be silly, NL.
Don’t you know that Wigan is a rugby town and football has no history in the town? ;)
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