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Title: We're not gonna look like Arsenal!!!!
Post by: janaage on Friday, January 21, 2005, 13:25:26
They're changing their home kit next season to an all claret kit!!!  

Link to full story to follow

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/4194049.stm


Title: We're not gonna look like Arsenal!!!!
Post by: Mark Hanrahan on Friday, January 21, 2005, 13:32:26
Sounds like Puce to me - bunch of raving irons!!


Title: We're not gonna look like Arsenal!!!!
Post by: Dazzza on Friday, January 21, 2005, 14:57:03
Reg have we ever played in an odd 1st team colour kit?


Title: We're not gonna look like Arsenal!!!!
Post by: DMR on Friday, January 21, 2005, 18:45:34
Quote from: "dazzza"
Reg have we ever played in an odd 1st team colour kit?


Why odd?

Arsenal were originally claret


Title: We're not gonna look like Arsenal!!!!
Post by: sonicyouth on Friday, January 21, 2005, 18:52:34
Well done for stating the obvious Dave, you must have read it!


Title: We're not gonna look like Arsenal!!!!
Post by: DMR on Friday, January 21, 2005, 19:03:38
The point is, willy breath, it's not odd because that is actually their colour.


Title: We're not gonna look like Arsenal!!!!
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Friday, January 21, 2005, 19:09:23
Quote from: "dazzza"
Reg have we ever played in an odd 1st team colour kit?


 Originally we played in green, in the 1890's, but  apparently the dyes were not too successful, or too expensive more like, so red was easier.

 This is why on some club stuff, green is included like the the infamous potato print shirt..

 The second kit colour was always all blue, back as I recall into the early 60's.

 So the oddest kit up to that point was the all white for the LC final......which was a complete change.

 Around the early 70's, there was a change to black shorts, which wasn't universally popular as it seemed to coincide with a slump in fortunes, so the white shorts were restored.

 More recently we've had all red, which red shorts personally I don't like, also some odd away kits like last seasons abomination.